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Dec
21
As reported earlier, OPSI is working with SPO to bring the two online legislative services together, to create a single place where visitors can access the widest range of legislative content held by the government alongside supporting material. The first step in this process is to publish a most recent version of revised statutes from […]
By Nick Holmes, 21 December 2007
Dec
17
The Network in 2008
Filed Under Semantic web, Social networking, Web 2.0, Blogging
This year Web 2.0 came of age. Blogs, wikis, photo sharing, video sharing, social networking, social this, social that, SaaS: all these services have developed at phenomenal pace. In particular, the Facebook craze burst out of its collegiate limitations and has gained traction even amongst lawyers; at the SCL conference in June, half the delegates […]
By Nick Holmes, 17 December 2007
Dec
17
Keeping company
Filed Under Law publishing, Law sites
Company Law Forum from LexisNexis is the first attempt at a substantial Web 2.0 site from a mainstream law publisher. It is intended to provide an environment for the legal and business community to share insights and discuss company law-related issues.
It is free to access; registration entitles you to create a profile, publish opinions, ask […]
By Nick Holmes, 17 December 2007
Nov
30
Who goes to the top? - you decide
Filed Under Law publishing, Blogging
The ABA Journal Blawg 100 are “the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal.”
Kevin O’Keefe reacts to this with a star post Law Blog vanity contests : ABA adds to the silliness:
to get sucked into believing a contest like the ABA Journal’s 100 best lawyer […]
By Nick Holmes, 30 November 2007
Nov
30
An optimal copyright term
Filed Under Copyright, Free culture
Victor Keegan in How long should copyright last? covers the arguments for a shorter copyright term in the digital age.
To exemplfy the absurdity of a strict application of copyrights, he points to Nate Andersen who reports that John Tehranian, a law professor at the University of Utah, totted up all the infringements he might have […]
By Nick Holmes, 30 November 2007
Nov
28
Susskind 2.0 digested (6)
Filed Under Future of law
In the last Times extract from The End of Lawyers? Richard Susskind answers his critics. There are those that argue that “computers cannot replace legal work. Full stop.” and others who believe that IT will have no or minimal effect on lawyers. To which the reply is:
Open-minded lawyers, and those who genuinely care about the […]
By Nick Holmes, 28 November 2007
Nov
28
Defining the semantic web
Filed Under Semantic web, Social networking
In 1999 Tim Berners-Lee had a dream for what he called the “semantic web“, in which computers
become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms […]
By Nick Holmes, 28 November 2007
Nov
20
2008 - the year of the wiki?
Filed Under Law publishing
Mark Chillingworth, writing in Information World Review, posts a summary of the Information Industry Outlook 2008 report from analyst Outsell.
STM and legal information providers will achieve growth of $20.9bn between 2007 and 2010 … before experiencing a gradual slowdown. Growth in the sector will be driven not so much by the information, as its integration […]
By Nick Holmes, 20 November 2007
Nov
20
Susskind 2.0 digested (5)
Filed Under Law publishing, Future of law
From the fifth Times extract from The End of Lawyers?
No-one who might be thought to be in the driving seat of the legal system [not law schools, nor legal academics, nor the professional bodies, nor the UK Government, nor the Law Commission] is thinking systematically, rigorously and in a sustained way about the long term […]
By Nick Holmes, 20 November 2007
Nov
16
Taking stock of docstoc
Filed Under Forms and precedents
I’ve spent some time browsing around on docstoc, a sort of YouTube for “professional” documents which has just launched in public beta. (Hat tip: Bob Ambrogi)
docstoc is a user generated community for sharing professional documents. Find a vast quantity of high quality legal, business, technology, educational, and creative documents for free. docstoc allows users to […]
By Nick Holmes, 16 November 2007