LexisNexis has announced the results of a nationwide (US) survey to provide insights into how information professionals are adding value to their organisations through Web 2.0 technology and knowledge management. According to the press release, when respondents were asked, “What is the most successful new initiative/service that you have launched in the past year?”, the […]
Martin George has outed himself as author of the blog formerly known as Legal Scribbles, saying: I would rather be open and honest about my identity. I don’t write about my personal life, nor do I touch on overtly sensitive topics …, so there is no good reason to hide behind a domain name. I […]
Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine in the New York Times gives a rare view inside one of the key departments at Googleplex. Amit Singhal, for some reason quaintly referred to as “Mr. Singhal” throughout, is the master of Google’s ranking algorithm, the complex program that calculates the relevance of a particular page to a […]
OUT-Law.com reports that more than a third of employees who keep personal blogs are posting information about their employer, workplace or colleagues and risk dismissal, according to YouGov research commissioned by Croner. OUT-Law provides plenty of advice on employee blogging and related policies in its guidance notes on: Staff and their personal blogs Legal risks […]
The web was supposed to be the great leveller. But, according to Compete, the top 10 websites account for 40 per cent of all web page views. Topping the charts is MySpace with a staggering 16 per cent of all page views. Figures for time spent and unique visitors tell the same story. Google, though […]
It being the start of Blawg 2007 Conference day, I had better post something lest I be castigated there for not doing my homework. A good place to go when you are short of immmediate legal web stimulation is your fave blogs’ blogrolls. So it was that I recently examined Charon QC’s, finding two new […]
Two related pieces on hiring and firing employees based on what is said about them on the web: CNet reports, under Fired federal worker sues over googling, that a government worker claimed a department official violated his “right to fundamental fairness” by using Google to research his prior work history in a dispute over the […]
I know nothing about UK legal ethics rules. I don’t even know if the UK has legal ethics rules. But I’m pretty sure this site would not pass muster in the US. This from Bob Ambrogi, a Massachusetts (US) lawyer, referring to the (UK) Expert Legal Advice service in association with Net Lawman. This service […]
First published May 2007 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. “Does IT Matter?” is the title of a controversial 2003 article in the Harvard Business Review by technology writer Nicholas Carr and also of his follow-up book in 2004 which expands on the theme. The nub of his argument is that IT has become a […]
First published May 2007 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. It is now 4 months since the Statute Law Database was released to the public. In the first couple of weeks following the launch there was a flurry of comment and criticism; but since then, near silence. Is everyone ecstatically happy with it, reserving their […]
Silicon Valley entrepreneur and polemicist Andrew Keen is kicking up a storm with his views on Web 2.0, soon to be published in his book The Cult of the Amateur: how today’s internet is killing our culture. Leading national media columnists have recently commented in balanced terms on his views and the book in particular: […]
Last week Field Fisher Waterhouse became the first ever major law firm to open an office in Second Life, the virtual three-dimensional world. The press and blogosphere have not been slow to pick up on this. Nearly Legal counsels “Please, No. It’s just wrong.” I tend to agree. The firm’s argument goes like this. Big […]
I used to follow John Battelle’s Searchblog closely for news and insight into the web search business. It’s still the place to go and I’m trying to stay interested, but wonder if I should bother. Not if he continues to dish out posts like this: Bezos at Web 2 Expo….S3 Data Jeff Bezos just gave […]
Nearly Legal points us to Feedity, a terrific widget that generates an RSS feed from any web page: Feedity has a proprietary data mining algorithm, which has been designed on the principles of self-learning agents. The native parser performs low-level content analysis, and it picks-up the most “prominent cluster” of hyperlinks. The renderer engine then […]
John Lanchester in the Guardian writes a lengthy article on the copyright issues surrounding books in the digital age. He concludes with an interesting proposal: let copyright endure for only a reasonably short period but guarantee the creator a percentage from further sales for a lengthier period – a lesser “royalty right”. Makes sense to […]
