Month: December 2006
2007: RSS will explode
I offer just this one prediction for 2007, as I believe it will eclipse all others. With Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 released and other big internet companies upgrading key information management products, 2007 will see RSS reading reach a mass audience and the potential for RSS to transform the information management industry will be realised. […]
New law bloggers
Spotted by Geeklawyer: Lawyers against Software Patents is self-explanatory. Pupilblog is an engaging diary of life as a pupil barrister: ‘It really does all feel very Dickensian.’ and by Nearly Legal: LI (legal information) Issues and thence to: Banking Lawyers Network.
Pods law
Ibrahim Hasan, solicitor, is producing a monthly series of FoI podcasts designed to bring busy public sector practitioners up to date with the latest developments in FoI law. Ibrahim discusses, inter alia, recent decisions from the Information Commissioner’s Office and the Information Tribunal and their impact on FoI practice. Meanwhile OUT-LAW Radio pumps out 10-minute […]
Statute Law Database goes public
The Statute Law Database was finally released to the public today. See what you think. Background and issues are covered in my recent article. Is the SLD “open”? No: The content is available free of charge to be viewed on screen, copied, printed out for private study and research purposes or for internal circulation within […]
e-Newsletters – RIP (2)
Further to my earlier post consigning e-newsletters to the watebasket, Kevin O’Keefe explains clearly why there’s little, if any, viral marketing effect from law firm newsletters.
Gowers – IP a priesthood and a playground
From The future of intellectual property: Andrew Gowers interviewed on openDemocracy.net: The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property has been broadly welcomed by copyright campaigners. Lawrence Lessig, the godfather of Creative Commons, has labelled research conducted into the economics of copyright extension “fantastic”, urging all governments to “muster the courage to follow this advice”; the Open […]
Monopoly of PSI costs the UK £500 million in lost opportunities
OFT Press Release 07/12/2006: The OFT’s market study into the commercial use of public information has found that more competition in public sector information could benefit the UK economy by around 1billion a year. Examples of public sector information include weather observations collected by the Met Office, records held by The National Archives used by […]
Sports and not-so-sporting chances
Gambling Law Blog and Sports Law Blog are two new blogs from Cecile Park Publishing, publishers of the e-commercelawdirect range of newsletters. This is indicative of one direction blogging will take as it enters the consciousness of the commercial publishers. These blogs obviously have good credentials and are likely to be good ports of call. […]
New law bloggers
Two new law blogs: WigleyLaw is from Wigley & Co, a specialist technology, telecommunications, procurement, and sales/marketing law firm. Head of Legal is from a barrister specialising in European, human rights and public law. Not new, but overdue for a mention is Terminological Inexactitudes, an occasional rant about working in and using the English legal […]
Reasons not to blog
Another great post sourced from this month’s Blawg Review is US attorney Brett Trout’s Why Lawyers Should Not Blog. The culture of some law firms is simply not conducive to blogging. Blogging simply emphasizes the firm culture. If the law firm is filled with quality attorneys, blogs will are beneficial, not only to the law […]
Trainee love
More than two months on, Watson Farley & Williams continue to show no remorse, persisting in publishing their so-called Trainee Law Blog, whose failings I have previously summed up. We’re now on episode 23. On its launch in late September, Legal Week quickly posted a story about it, sans any investigation, describing it as “possibly […]
