I feel no inclination to network on Facebook. Loads of business and professional people are supposedly doing so now. But what job will it get done better for me? I’m hugely in favour of using social software tools to do useful jobs. But we’re caught up in a frenzy of interest in “huge massively multi-user […]
Web usability guru, Jakob Nielsen, reports in his weekly Alertbox for 20 August 2007 on banner blindness: The most prominent result from the new eyetracking studies is not actually new. We simply confirmed for the umpteenth time that banner blindness is real. Users almost never look at anything that looks like an advertisement, whether or […]
The discussion about “Law 2.0” has been alive for some time with Dennis Kennedy, Tom Mighell, the Wired GC and other forward thinkers developing their thoughts over the last 18 months. Here’s the collected wisdom they have tagged as Law 2.0: Between Lawyers Wired GC Web-Tones Mullen on Law 2.0+ And following the SCL’s successful […]
Every now and then I’m prompted to revisit the question “What is a blog?” I won’t rehash all my thinking here. Let’s instead consider the rather circular argument: a website produced with blog software is a blog. This must be true in 99% of cases, though it’s quite possible to produce a site with blog […]
Jeremy Phillips has posted on the IPKat about the exciting proposed development of an IP Law Wiki which has already gained some traction with the proposal for funding a feasibility study already under way. Most interesting for me is the comment that: if – as seems likely – [the feasibility study is successful], it will […]
First Published July 2007 in the Axxia Newsletter. Few readers can be oblivious to the buzz surrounding “social media” (aka Web 2.0) that has grown in recent years. The term encompasses an increasing range of services that enable people to share, contribute and collaborate on the web, transforming it from a publishing platform and glorified […]
Steve Matthews – the Vancouver Law Librarian blogger – has set up a new business called Stem Legal to help law firms build their web profiles. On the site he’ll be blogging on Law Firm Web Strategy. Good luck to Steve.
Back from hols. I did intend to post a couple of times whilst away, but in the end holiday is holiday and I failed to summon up any enthusiasm.
There’s an awful lot in the press and the blogosphere about social networking these days. In particular about who will win out between MySpace and Facebook and the differences between them. Danah Boyd, a researcher at the University of California and internet sociologist, goes a bit overboard in her reasearch findings, declaring that: The goodie […]
The Cabinet Office has responded positively to the independent report it commissioned on the future of government services – The Power of Information (see previous post) – saying that the Government will engage in partnership with user-led online communities, not attempt to replicate them: The Government should work in partnership with the best of citizens’ […]
DfES and DTI are no more, replaced by three new Departments and a fair bit of confusion. The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) is responsible for children’s services, families, schools, 14-19 education, and the Respect Taskforce. The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) “will deliver the Government’s long-term vision to make Britain […]
Quite a gaggle of family law blogs now. Joining the established Family Lore from John Bolch (note the new URL) and DivorceSolicitor from Lynne Bastow, we now have: Bloody Relations from barrister Jacqui Gilliatt who specialises in family and education law (“Where there’s a relative there’s a bloody good argument to be had.”) Family Law […]
According to a report published by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King’s College, London: The ‘law-abiding majority’, which politicians like to address, is a chimera. The law-abiding majority not only do not abide by the law, they also do not believe in the value of laws and rules, shrugging them off in […]
Last Friday/Saturday I attended the SCL Web 2.0 conference in Oxford where speakers and panellists included technology lawyers from large practices, lawyers from Web 2.0 companies, a venture capitalist, an academic and our deputy from the ICO. The majority of the delegates were from large law firms – there to learn what this Web 2.0 […]
Around the world, the first phase of Government use of the internet is coming to an end with public services and information largely online. We are now at the start of a new era, where Government starts to learn how to support citizens’ own ways of making, finding and re-using information online. So says Tom […]
