New blogger, DivorceSolicitor: Single mother with 3 children, 2 ex husbands, 1 boyfriend (doubles as ex husband) and 0 pets. Hobbies include cooking, horse-riding, reading, knitting, DIY, dancing, but I don’t have time to do any of these as I spend all free-time socialising with 6 friends (you know who you are). Used to like […]
Jordan Furlong, who edits the Canadian Lawyers Weekly, posts on Slaw about how blogs and RSS feeds will democratise Legal Publishing in the 21st Century: Legal publishers need to understand that the number of competitors [in legal news publishing] is not going to shrink – it’s going to multiply tenfold. And these competitors won’t have […]
Time was (last millennium) when every new government department / agency website was newsworthy whatever its utility. Then lots of content was added and content management systems were employed to structure browsing and search. That was all good stuff but with plenty of room for improvement. Many are now repainting their frontages and making those […]
Head on over to the Wikipedia and you’ll find that there is developing a very useful corpus of entries on UK law. The United Kingdom Law page indicates the scope of the contributions thus far, though you’ll find the structure predictably chaotic. However, there are some more structured starting points – list maniacs are at […]
I had a long overdue face-to-face with Justin of Human Law last week. We bemoaned the state of the legal blogosphere. In fact, there are so few points on the surface of this sphere, that it hardly rates as a sphere at all, even a small one. Should we actively try to expand it or […]
I’ve held back, so far, on comment on the Watson Farley & Williams so-called trainee law blog. The dust has now settled and the issue is well covered by Justin at Human Law. But here’s my take. This is not a blog: anyone familiar with blogs visiting it will see that it exhibits none of […]
Kevin O’Keefe recently posted a thought-provoking piece on the Law on using others’ RSS feeds, garnered from an article at EContent: RSS: Use, Lose, or Abuse?. The strict position (in US law, but little different here), as stated by Peter Strand, partner of the US law firm Holland & Knight, is that: In general, the […]
Yesterday Clare Allison, the Enquiry System Project Manager at the SPO, wrote to Statute Law Database trial users that: We are pleased to announce that the website as it stands will be launched free of charge to the public once piloting has been completed. A commercial strategy will still be developed next year, but will […]
I have expended much of my creative effort these last few weeks finishing off a couple of new e-books with 5 CPD points a pop on the subject of the legal web, produced by me and Delia Venables and just published on infolaw. You’ll find full details there, but here’s a quick summary. Changing Practice […]
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My article The Statute Law Database – finally a reality looks at the history and current shape of the SLD.
John Bolch at Family Lore is the first law blogger I know of to adopt the new Blogger platform which is currently in beta. Family Lore thus has a new look and new features. With this release Blogger has at last introduced categorisation. Another nice new feature is that archive links can be expanded to […]
The Statute Law Database is a project of the Statutory Publications Office (SPO), an office within the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA). It has a long and chequered history, reaching back to 1991 when the initial project was started. Until recently little information was released about the project, though regular assurances were given as to […]
I’m surprised how many bloggers don’t link prominently to their site feed. Here are some possible reasons: Don’t know what a site feed is Here is a brief primer. Don’t have one Yes you do! All blogging services produce a site feed as standard. In Blogger you may need to activate it. Go to Settings […]
Corporate Blawg UK is “an informal discussion forum on company and commercial law in the UK.” Law andstuff sells itself in typical student fashion as the “crazy ramblings about the law from the biased perspective of a UK law student … In an attempt to be unoriginal this blog is about law, the internet, student […]
