Aug
24
New kids on the blog
Filed Under Law blogs
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 life […]
By Nick Holmes, 24 August 2006
Aug
24
The SLD - what did I expect?
Filed Under Statute Law Database
I’ve just submitted my feedeback to the SPO on the Statute Law Database as a Public Pilot Phase 2 user. It’s premature to comment publicly in any detail, but here are the substantial points.
Completeness
Some 75 Acts - many substantial - remain to be loaded on the SLD. Further, the effects of much 2002 to 2005 […]
By Nick Holmes, 24 August 2006
Aug
23
Blog optimisation
Filed Under Blogging
Here’s an interesting one.
Kevin O’Keefe (a well-known US law blog champion) comments on Doc Searls (a prolific A-list blogger) who comments on Nicholas Carr (a not-so-prolific B-list blogger) who comments on how to get a link from an A-lister.
Nick Carr says:
As the blogophere has become more rigidly hierarchical … it has turned into a grand […]
By Nick Holmes, 23 August 2006
Aug
21
Nearly Legal offers a thoughtful post on the issues connected with anonymous blogging, saying “What interests me … is the fraught conjunction of anonymity, confessional, freedom of expression, privacy, veracity, self-exposure and unwanted exposure involved here.”
By Nick Holmes, 21 August 2006
Aug
18
Weird Firefox behaviour explained
Filed Under Browsers, Search, Miscellany
I have just abandoned IE6 at work completely in favour of Firefox, though I’ve been using Firefox at home for some time.
I mentioned in a recent post some weird behaviour in Firefox when a duff URL was linked. I now find this in Firefox help which perhaps explains it:
By default, if you enter a search […]
By Nick Holmes, 18 August 2006
Aug
18
Snakes, planes and the law
Filed Under Intellectual property, Fun
In an unashamed quest for blog popularity I give you a couple of connections between the movie “Snakes on a Plane”, released today, and the law, thanks to CNN (my emphasis added):
The Internet hoopla started with a single entry on screenwriter Josh Friedman’s blog last summer. …
Friedman’s wildfire spread … thanks to fan-created videos posted […]
By Nick Holmes, 18 August 2006
Aug
18
Technorati is a wonderful resource for bloggers. If you have not yet discovered it or do not use it much, take the time now to investigate what it offers. It tracks and indexes currently more than 51 million blogs and gives you several ways to discover new blogs and to follow the stats and conversation […]
By Nick Holmes, 18 August 2006
Aug
17
Free access to the laws that bind us?
Filed Under Statute Law Database, Information rights, Law publishers
Heather Brooke who blogs on FoI issues on Your Right to Know writes today in Technology Guardian about the Statute Law Database as part of its Free Our Data campaign under the headline “Access denied to the laws that govern us”.
It’s true the public continues to be denied access to the SLD which has been some 10 years […]
By Nick Holmes, 17 August 2006
Aug
16
Down but not out
Filed Under Law blogs
Wearyconveyancer has found it in him to set up “a blog to rant about all aspects of conveyancing that cause me pain (which to be fair is most of it) and to reflect on 38 years of practising law in a high street environment.”
By Nick Holmes, 16 August 2006
Aug
14
Blog comings and goings
Filed Under Law blogs
Joy London’s Excited Utterances KM blog is no more. She has joined forces with Sean Hocking of Practice Source and Excited Utterances will be delivered “direct to desktop” with Law Librarian News to subscribers in PDF.
The Practice Source site has had a facelift and hosts both Sean’s House of Butter blog of law publishing news and a new […]
By Nick Holmes, 14 August 2006
