Blogoscope’s Devil’s Guide to Google suggests how you can contribute to the spam fest.
Steve Butler at UKBlawgers argues for “a central source of legal information which is available to all at a very low price” and suggests a sort of grand law wiki as the solution. Now the wiki is certainly a neat collaborative publishing tool and has many advantages over more conventional publishing systems and many valid […]
InsideoutLegal is an innovative new web servicefrom Richard Best (of PharmaBlawg fame) making the most of all new technologies. InsideoutLegal enables inside counsel to benefit from the legal and practical knowledge that outside counsel choose to share with them, whether in writing or spoken word. That shared knowledge can take the form of links to […]
I’m a big fan of Google the search engine. Always have been. But like many others, last year I started falling out of love with Google the business. It’s just too big, too powerful and its ambitions too great. It hasn’t abandoned its “don’t be evil” motto, but it defines evil for itself. It has […]
An anonymousmature trainee lawyer blogs atNearly Legal on “trying to become a lawyer and other things”. Looks like it could be a good one. I am older than most in this position, and had a not unsuccessful career before turning to law, so being talked to like a complete 20ish beginner was something of a […]
Tim Kevan, barrister at 1 Temple Gardens, surfer and media pundit, is involved in the publication of three blogs: his own, Law Brief Update Blogand PI Brief Update Blog. The latter two complement the free, like-named newsletters produced by teams of barristers of which Tim is (an) editor.
After a 10-year wait the DCA has finally released a version of the Statute Law Database. Even this announcementwas late (released today): An on-line enquiry service for the statute law database was launched for government staff on 31 May 2006. Staff can find out how to access it by contacting our statutory publications helpdesk. We […]
I’ve just ordered a nice print edition of Larry Lessig’s Free Culture – per one reviewer (and my snatches of it confirm this) – a “focused, measured argument of the issues around preserving and extending digital creativity”. Many feel it’s cool to cite his blog in their blogrolls. I don’t find that compelling reading; on […]
I have for a long time believed that the web would spell the end of the newsletter. For the printed newsletter the end will be a long time coming. Print will not die anytime soon and the printed newsletter, smart and portable, will continue to be popular until the current generation, weaned on the internet, […]
There have been a lot of column inches devoted to Prezza’s skirt lifting and croquet and his consequent loss of face and department, but not much that I have seen on the practical implications of the departmental shift. The former ODPM is now the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). On the internet odpm.gov.uk, […]
Copy theft is rife on the web. There’s so much of it, you have to be selective about what you lose sleep over. Let’s leave aside substantial, deliberate infringements for the time being and look at the lazy copier. You know the type: Wish I’d written that page/constructed that set of links. I’ll just grab […]
Dan Hull’s What about Clients? blog now includes a catalogue of non-US legal weblogs from or about the West andAsia. Latin America, Africa and the Middle East are next. We’ll keep building on this — just as my own firm has built an international practice over the past 10 years. The idea here is to […]
Society Guardian on howSusskind has approvedthe Guardian’s Free Our Data Campaign: The British government owns one of the world’s most valuable collections of intellectual property. Government policy on what it should do with this information is muddled. On one hand, it encourages free access, for example to historic census returns. On the other hand, agencies […]
Lotus 123 was, to my mind, the best of the first killer apps: better than space invaders and the word processor. You could tabulate data and construct elaborate formulae to produce whatever result you wanted! That delight is now enabled by Excel. On behalf of the family judiciary I’ve been having a go with maintenance […]
