At long last OPSIis producing RSS feeds of latest legislation. The feeds only include legislation added to the sitein the last 3 days, which is fine if you’re collecting and aggregating the data in your feed reader or otherwise, butnot much useif youare viewing the feed unaggregated.
John Naughton on the launch of Google Checkout: The trouble with IT is that there’s always someone whose business plan involves world domination. … The latest contender for Supreme Ruler is Google, which until recently was a cheeky startup run by guys claiming the freehold of the Higher Moral Ground, but is now a grubby […]
I now have access to the SLD for Phase 2 of the Public Pilot which runs from today for 5 weeks. Phase 3 will extend the public user base to over 100 but there’s no indication how long this will last, norof the timetable for the final evaluation, modifications and publication. Will keep you posted […]
A lot of misinformation flows in the current debate raging on network neutrality. It is this says Tim Berners-Lee (and he should know): If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that […]
Probably not in there with your Dan Browns, but here’s a some webby books I’ve read recently or plan to (listed oldest first). You could do worse than feed your brain with one of them this Summer. Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Paperback) by Lawrence Lessig (August 2000) A Brief History of the Future: […]
In a post questioning the value of the the traditional website, Kevin O’Keefe neatly summarises how to network effectively on the net: Law firms and professional service firms network to get work. To network, you need to listen, engage in the discussion, and pass on information others may use in referencing you. … Find the […]
I’m interested in HIPs for two reasons: (1) some of infolaw’s bread and butter is the supply of forms and precedents to lawyers; and (2) HIPs are an example of government regulation which should achieve a social benefit – less delay and hassle in buying a home, one of the most stressful “life events”. There […]
I’ve been running Google Adsense on Lawfinder for a few months now – mainly in the interests of research, though it does become seductive. I’ve also followed up on some of the research, blogs and forums about it. Here are my findings: The vast majority of Adsense accounts earn less than $50 per month and […]
Charon QC has just moved his blog to a new home on WordPress. He asks me what is this mysterious thing called atrackback? To I quote from the currentWikipedia article: TrackBack is a mechanism for communication between blogs: if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, or referring to, an entry found at another […]
Thanks to my fan Charon QC -who crafts his excellent blog without the aid of blogging software -for his kind comments about Binary Law. In the same post he picks up on Geeklawyer’s rant about Sir Stelios (Parental Advisory: includes **** – look away now) and points to the Wikipedia entry for the said Greek-Cypriot, […]
Hats off to Washington & Lee Law School for their fantastic resource, Current Law Journal Content. CLJC provides summary views and feeds for the content of over 1220 law journals, sets up searches for individual articles across relevant web resources and links to full content where available. (Of course, full content is free for only […]
Charles Christian of the Orange Rag (Legal Technology Insider) is blogging. Welcome to the blogosphere.
First published July 2006 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers The most helpful expansion of the RSS acronym (there are several) is Remote Site Syndication. In this context, syndication refers to making data feeds available from a website in order to provide others with an updated set of content from it (for example latest news). […]
I’ve just chanced upon the new Guardian site Comment is Free as it has hit the ether. Must be brand new as Goog has only one result for it. Comment is free is a major expansion of Guardian comment and analysis on the web. It is a collective group blog, bringing together regular columnists from […]
