Month: September 2006
PR lessons for law firms
I’ve held back, so far, on comment on the Watson Farley & Williams so-called trainee law blog. The dust has now settled and the issue is well covered by Justin at Human Law. But here’s my take. This is not a blog: anyone familiar with blogs visiting it will see that it exhibits none of […]
RSS and the law
Kevin O’Keefe recently posted a thought-provoking piece on the Law on using others’ RSS feeds, garnered from an article at EContent: RSS: Use, Lose, or Abuse?. The strict position (in US law, but little different here), as stated by Peter Strand, partner of the US law firm Holland & Knight, is that: In general, the […]
Free access to the laws that bind us? (2)
Yesterday Clare Allison, the Enquiry System Project Manager at the SPO, wrote to Statute Law Database trial users that: We are pleased to announce that the website as it stands will be launched free of charge to the public once piloting has been completed. A commercial strategy will still be developed next year, but will […]
e-Books for lawyers
I have expended much of my creative effort these last few weeks finishing off a couple of new e-books with 5 CPD points a pop on the subject of the legal web, produced by me and Delia Venables and just published on infolaw. You’ll find full details there, but here’s a quick summary. Changing Practice […]
Making an impact
IMPACT is a new blog brought to you by the Intellectual Property and Technology team at UK law firm Freeth Cartwright LLP.
Statute Law Database article
My article The Statute Law Database – finally a reality looks at the history and current shape of the SLD.
The new Blogger (with a capital B)
John Bolch at Family Lore is the first law blogger I know of to adopt the new Blogger platform which is currently in beta. Family Lore thus has a new look and new features. With this release Blogger has at last introduced categorisation. Another nice new feature is that archive links can be expanded to […]
The Statute Law Database – finally a reality
The Statute Law Database is a project of the Statutory Publications Office (SPO), an office within the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA). It has a long and chequered history, reaching back to 1991 when the initial project was started. Until recently little information was released about the project, though regular assurances were given as to […]
You’ve got it – flaunt it!
I’m surprised how many bloggers don’t link prominently to their site feed. Here are some possible reasons: Don’t know what a site feed is Here is a brief primer. Don’t have one Yes you do! All blogging services produce a site feed as standard. In Blogger you may need to activate it. Go to Settings […]
