Jun

30

Anything but easy

Filed Under Intellectual property

Thanks to my fan Charon QC - who crafts his excellent blog without the aid of blogging software - for his kind comments about Binary Law.
In the same post he picks up on Geeklawyer’s rant about Sir Stelios (Parental Advisory: includes **** - look away now) and points to the Wikipedia entry for the said Greek-Cypriot, which […]

By Nick Holmes, 30 June 2006

Jun

29

Current Law Journal Content

Filed Under General resources, Law publishing

Hats off to Washington & Lee Law School for their fantastic resource, Current Law Journal Content. CLJC provides summary views and feeds for the content of over 1220 law journals, sets up searches for individual articles across relevant web resources and links to full content where available. (Of course, full content is free for only […]

By Nick Holmes, 29 June 2006

Jun

28

No, Stelios doesn’t own “orange”

Filed Under Legal IT, Law blogs

Charles Christian of the Orange Rag (Legal Technology Insider) is blogging. Welcome to the blogosphere.

By Nick Holmes, 28 June 2006

Jun

28

Syndication, syndication, syndication

Filed Under Articles, Feeds

First published July 2006 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers
The most helpful expansion of the RSS acronym (there are several) is Remote Site Syndication. In this context, syndication refers to making data feeds available from a website in order to provide others with an updated set of content from it (for example latest news). News […]

By Nick Holmes, 28 June 2006

Jun

23

A half tonne of bloggers

Filed Under General resources, Blogging

I’ve just chanced upon the new Guardian site Comment is Free as it has hit the ether. Must be brand new as Goog has only one result for it.
Comment is free is a major expansion of Guardian comment and analysis on the web. It is a collective group blog, bringing together regular columnists from the […]

By Nick Holmes, 23 June 2006

Jun

23

Falling out of love with Google (2)

Filed Under Search

Blogoscope’s Devil’s Guide to Google suggests how you can contribute to the spam fest.

By Nick Holmes, 23 June 2006

Jun

22

Clocking on

Filed Under Fun

Looks like Feedmelegal is back from sabbatical.

By Nick Holmes, 22 June 2006

Jun

20

Centralised or distributed (law) publishing?

Filed Under Legal web, Law publishing, Wikis, Blogging

Steve Butler at UKBlawgers argues for “a central source of legal information which is available to all at a very low price” and suggests a sort of grand law wiki as the solution.
Now the wiki is certainly a neat collaborative publishing tool and has many advantages over more conventional publishing systems and many valid applications. […]

By Nick Holmes, 20 June 2006

Jun

15

InsideoutLegal

Filed Under Law sites

InsideoutLegal is an innovative new web service from Richard Best (of PharmaBlawg fame) making the most of all new technologies.
InsideoutLegal enables inside counsel to benefit from the legal and practical knowledge that outside counsel choose to share with them, whether in writing or spoken word.  That shared knowledge can take the form of links to content […]

By Nick Holmes, 15 June 2006

Jun

15

Falling out of love with Google

Filed Under Search

I’m a big fan of Google the search engine. Always have been. But like many others, last year I started falling out of love with Google the business. It’s just too big, too powerful and its ambitions too great. It hasn’t abandoned its “don’t be evil” motto, but it defines evil for itself. It has […]

By Nick Holmes, 15 June 2006

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