Jan
31
Employment law blogs
Filed Under Law blogs
Not one but three new employment law blogs to report:
Employment Law Blog from Gail Escolme, specialist employment solicitor with Hayton Winkley Kendal, on the Westmorland Gazette site.
Employment Law Blog from Charles Price, specialist employment barrister with No5 Chambers.
Mark Ellis Blog from Mark Ellis, UK employment law solicitor and CEO at Ellis Whittam.
By Nick Holmes, 31 January 2007
Jan
30
Hard times
Filed Under Miscellany
So, PC World has decided to let stocks of floppy disks run out. And that will be the end of it.
Only yesterday I finally donated a CopyPro disk copier, purchased in the early 90s for a substantial 4-figure sum, to a worthy recipient who runs jumble sales of PC stuff. In its heyday it was […]
By Nick Holmes, 30 January 2007
Jan
30
A really simple marketing strategy
Filed Under Feeds
I wholeheartedly agree with Kevin O’Keefe at Lexblog that law firms should use RSS to get their (PR) information to their target audience. Kevin monitors a lot of RSS feeds for legally related keywords and key phrases and is shocked how little he receives from large law firms with very significant PR budgets.
It’s not just […]
By Nick Holmes, 30 January 2007
Jan
25
There I am banging on about losing the I from IT, when it seems IT is losing the plot altogether.
LegalIT, from LegalWeek has disappeared; the nearest equivalent on the new LegalWeek site is the Management & IT section.
The Legal IT News blog from Legal IT Forums (legalitforums.com) has also disappeared.
Legal IT Forums is no relation […]
By Nick Holmes, 25 January 2007
Jan
25
No IT please, we’re all on e
Filed Under Web 2.0, Technology
What is technology is as much defined by our attitude as by the innovations themselves. This is well illustrated by Douglas Adams, in a prescient and apparently famous article in the Sunday Times in 1999 on How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet:
1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born […]
By Nick Holmes, 25 January 2007
Jan
24
Has Binary Law gone nuts?
Filed Under Intellectual property, Law blogs
No, it’s a new, lookalike IP blawg.
[Update: No longer a lookalike as Binary Law is using a new theme.]
By Nick Holmes, 24 January 2007
Jan
23
Legal Week now has a trio of blogs with the addition of Legal Village. This is a collection of short articles by high-profile names. Active contributors thus far, with one post each, are: Bill Knight, Master of the City Solicitors’ Livery Company; Charles Martin, Head of Macfarlanes; Fiona Woolf, President of the Law Society of […]
By Nick Holmes, 23 January 2007
Jan
18
Have I got news for Yahoo?
Filed Under Search
I’m well aware that my post titles suck for search engine optimisation (SEO) purposes. For those unfamiliar with that black art, consider just that I could have entitled this post “Writing headlines for the search engines”. Boring or what?
As the linked NY Times article says: “There are no algorithms for wit, irony, humor or stylish […]
By Nick Holmes, 18 January 2007
Jan
18
Beefy and Lamby anyone?
Filed Under Web 2.0, Democracy, Government, Public Sector Information
Comment on the Government’s proposals to close 550 plus government websites has provoked a range of comment from “about time too” to “a bit of a sick joke“, with numerous geeks chipping in that this is all unnecessary because [Web 2.0 reason here].
One needs to dig a little deeper than the government press release and […]
By Nick Holmes, 18 January 2007
Jan
17
She gets my vote
Filed Under Miscellany
I’m not one to stray off topic, but can’t help admiring the skill of Shilpa Shetty who is favourite to win Celebrity Big Brother. Irritating as she is, she deftly exposes the lesser celebrities, with a few notable exceptions, as shallow and gullible (racism and bigotry aside).
The smart prize also has to go to Channel […]
By Nick Holmes, 17 January 2007
