Month: August 2006
New kids on the blog
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 […]
The SLD – what did I expect?
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 […]
Blog optimisation
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 […]
RSS: How to pull the news that matters
First published May 2004 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. If you use the web seriously to keep up to date on a particular topic, you probably visit the news pages of dozens of sites and subscribe to a number of email newsletters – and you never have the time to review all of them […]
Necessarily anonymous
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.”
Weird Firefox behaviour explained
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 […]
Snakes, planes and the law
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 […]
Blogosphere quite small shock
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 […]
Free access to the laws that bind us?
Heather Brooke who blogs on FoI issues on Your Right to Know writes today in Technology Guardian about the Statute Law Databaseas part of its Free Our Data campaign under the headline “Access denied to the laws that govern us”. It’s true the publiccontinues to bedenied access to the SLD which has been some 10 […]
Down but not out
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.”
Blog comings and goings
Joy London’s Excited Utterances KM blog is no more. She has joined forces with Sean Hocking of Practice Sourceand Excited Utterances will be delivered “direct to desktop” with Law Librarian Newsto subscribers in PDF. The Practice Source site has had a facelift and hosts bothSean’s House of Butter blog of law publishing news and a […]
Gun-toting law student fires off a few rounds
In the spirit of back-scratching that we adopt in the blogosphere, I’m pleased to point you to The Twenty-Something, the blog of law student, TAand aspiring barrister Miss H. I’m guessing there must be thousands of law students blogging, and I’m not about to start tracking all their rants and ramblings, but Miss H standsout […]
Culture vulture
You learn something every day on the web en passant. Well numerous things in fact. I set out to check out the website revamp at DCMSwho nowglory under the domain name culture.gov.uk.On this voyage I discovered: 1)Firefox resolves URLs in strange ways: DCMS is now producing RSS feeds of news and FoI requests. Top marks […]
SCL site revamp
The Society for Computers and Law has quietly released a redesigned site, with the full PRrazzmatazz to follow, presumably when members are back fromhols. (I understand this is called a”soft” launch in marketing circles.) I prefer the cleaner, more conventional look and feel of the new site, thoughI have not investigated very far as yet. […]
Possession Claim Online
The HMCS Possession Claim Online service has commenced live service in the seven proving courts within the South Wales area- Aberdare, Bridgend, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath & Port Talbot, Pontypridd & Swansea County Courts. Claimants who register with the PCOL service can issue and manage claims online through these courts, and defendantscan reply and view […]
