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Jul
23
Blogs as a publishing platform
Filed Under Blogging
Dave Winer, pioneer of blogging, RSS and other publishing standards, recently posted about the importance of blogs as a publishing platform:
Publishing keeps getting cheaper. That’s been the constant push, the practical application of Moore’s Law in my neck of the woods. I’ve always been a publishing guy, and that’s always been how I viewed computers, […]
By Nick Holmes, 23 July 2008
Jul
14
Towards Gov 2.0
Filed Under Articles, Government
Democracy – as Abraham Lincoln famously defined it – is the government of the people, by the people and for the people. Hitherto, we’ve been able to exercise our democratic rights only at the ballot box, by lobbying our MP and perhaps in public demonstrations. Can Gov 2.0 – the application of Web 2.0 to […]
By Nick Holmes, 14 July 2008
Jul
14
Some 18 months ago Google launched its Custom Search service (still in beta) that enables you to create a custom search engine (CSE) focussing on anything up to 2,000 specified URLs.
The rationale is that, despite its undoubtedly sophisticated algorithms, even with a carefully crafted search, Google will always return results near the top that are […]
By Nick Holmes, 14 July 2008
Jul
14
A wake-up call to lawyers
Filed Under Articles, Future of law
Professor Richard Susskind is, as I write, no doubt completing the final draft of his forthcoming treatise, The End of Lawyers? to be published in June by Oxford University Press.
More than 12 years ago he wrote its predecessor, The Future of Law. Then only a few of us had awoken to the internet; only a […]
By Nick Holmes, 14 July 2008
Jul
14
In this issue:
Alternative legal services
Why email newsletters?
Getting the best from RSS
Clicks are not enough
New Legal Web ebooks with CPD
A new search engine for employment law – ELISE
Software as a Service for barristers
The law publishers and Web 2.0
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By Nick Holmes, 14 July 2008
Jul
10
As regular readers will know, one of my pet subjects is unlocking the power of public sector information, and I’ve actively campaigned for it as it relates to legal information.
The ball is now really rolling on this with the introduction of two new services from government:
From OPSI - Public Sector Information Unlocking Service (beta)
As the […]
By Nick Holmes, 10 July 2008
Jul
8
Vote Binary Law for a better future
Filed Under Binary Law
Fame of a sort beckons. Would all my readers form an orderly queue and cast their votes here:
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By Nick Holmes, 8 July 2008