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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.”
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.”
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 […]
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 […]
