May
29
Employee bloggers risk dismissal
Filed Under Blogging
OUT-Law.com reports that more than a third of employees who keep personal blogs are posting information about their employer, workplace or colleagues and risk dismissal, according to YouGov research commissioned by Croner.
OUT-Law provides plenty of advice on employee blogging and related policies in its guidance notes on:
Staff and their personal blogs
Legal risks of corporate blogging […]
By Nick Holmes, 29 May 2007
May
25
Their space
Filed Under Web stats
The web was supposed to be the great leveller. But, according to Compete, the top 10 websites account for 40 per cent of all web page views. Topping the charts is MySpace with a staggering 16 per cent of all page views. Figures for time spent and unique visitors tell the same story.
Google, though not […]
By Nick Holmes, 25 May 2007
May
18
Legal webbery 2007
Filed Under Miscellany, Justice
It being the start of Blawg 2007 Conference day, I had better post something lest I be castigated there for not doing my homework.
A good place to go when you are short of immmediate legal web stimulation is your fave blogs’ blogrolls. So it was that I recently examined Charon QC’s, finding two new links:
Reactionary […]
By Nick Holmes, 18 May 2007
May
11
Two related pieces on hiring and firing employees based on what is said about them on the web:
CNet reports, under Fired federal worker sues over googling, that a government worker claimed a department official violated his “right to fundamental fairness” by using Google to research his prior work history in a dispute over the use […]
By Nick Holmes, 11 May 2007
May
4
Internet Newsletter for Lawyers - May/June 2007 issue
Filed Under Newsletter, Technology, Statute Law Database
The first print issue of the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers under my joint editorship with Delia Venables is now on its way to subscribers and it is now also published on the new Newsletter site on infolaw. My articles are also published here on Binary Law.
Articles in this issue are:
Hosted email by Charles Black
Does IT […]
By Nick Holmes, 4 May 2007
May
4
My advice is …
Filed Under Outsourcing
I know nothing about UK legal ethics rules. I don’t even know if the UK has legal ethics rules. But I’m pretty sure this site would not pass muster in the US.
This from Bob Ambrogi, a Massachusetts (US) lawyer, referring to the (UK) Expert Legal Advice service in association with Net Lawman. This service provides […]
By Nick Holmes, 4 May 2007
May
2
Is the internet killing our culture?
Filed Under Web 2.0
Silicon Valley entrepreneur and polemicist Andrew Keen is kicking up a storm with his views on Web 2.0, soon to be published in his book The Cult of the Amateur: how today’s internet is killing our culture.
Leading national media columnists have recently commented in balanced terms on his views and the book in particular:
Bryan Appleyard […]
By Nick Holmes, 2 May 2007
