The FT reports talks between MySpace and Google/Microsoft who are keen to capture more of the youth market. The rapid growth of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook has threatened to tip the balance of power on the internet away from traditional portals and search engines. Their potential to become the places where […]
Thanks to Robert Ambrogi for pointing me to two nascent, but nevertheless significant, new US sites: Wiki-Law‘s mission is “to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable world-wide legal guide and resource”. Unlike most wikis I’ve seen, this is not an encyclopedia but a highly-structured resource, with page templates for entries on Blogs, Links, Dictionary […]
I’ve recently added a Blogs section to infolaw Lawfinder, cataloguing all UK law and related blogs, plus a few overseas sites of direct relevance. Still no surge of interest in blogging here. Also added is the Feeds section, cataloguing all UK law and related feeds anddisplaying the latest 10 headlines. Many law feeds have come […]
The Webby Awards are the equivalent of the Oscars for websites, honouring excellence in web design, creativity, usability and functionality. They are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. This year the Academy’s award in the Law category has gone to Justice Learning, which describes itself as “an innovative, issue-based approach for […]
Kieran Flatt, writing in Legal IT, believes that there are only five law firms in the UK that have demonstrated any serious long-term commitment to developing online businesses: Linklaters (Blue Flag) Berwin Leighton Paisner (BeProfessional) Eversheds Allen & Overy (NewChange) Addleshaw Goddard Pinsent Masons’ OUT-LAW.com service is not on his list as it is a […]
National, theofficial periodical of the Canadian Bar Association has produce anA to Z: 26 trends for the legal profession. The legal profession is turning upside down, and many of the familiar landmarks are disappearing or being replaced by brand-new structures. There are so many changes afoot that National’s editorial team could match each letter of […]
Contributors to The Times have recently started blogging in numbers. TheTimesOnline Law Weblog is authored by Edward Fennell, Gary Slapper, Mark Stephens, Alex Wade and friends, while the Law section continues to offer legal news and comment in parallel. Such a dichotomy is not uncommon on news sites at present. The blogs allow less formal […]
First published September 2005 in Whither the Legal Web?. This abridged version published January 2006 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. For the largest law firms the provision of online legal services is an imperative but few, if any, of these services are sold to clients directly off the page. The focus is rather on […]
First published May 2006 in in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. The so-called blogosphere (the world of blogs) now occupies the position that the web itself did 10 years ago. Hands up those who, in 1996, did not appreciate the significance of the web? So now with blogs – you can’t afford to ignore them. […]
The recent accessions page on BAILII shows that a number of leading judgments from the 17th century onwards have recently been added. These are the first fruits of the BAILII/JISC Open Law project which aims to identify significant older judgments to which reference is regularly needed in legal education. JISC is the Joint Information Systems […]
I never felt entirely comfortable blogging on the corporate (infolaw) website. Was I blogging as the corporate “we” or the individual “I”? Binary Law establishes this blog as my personal voice. It will of course also reflect, though not overtly push, my business interests. Along with the new identity is the new URL. There is […]
Binary Law is a continuation of my blog previously entitled “What’s new on the UK legal web?”, focussing on legal information in the digital age. I’ll blog about some of the changes in due course. All previous posts have been imported, so for now,having found the new blog, please update your links and feedreader with […]
It did not take long. Dan Tench, a media partner at Olswang, who first discovered the “Smithy” code embedded in the Da Vinci Code judgment, has cracked it.
Unnoticed for three weeks, Mr Justice Peter Smith embedded his own code in his recent Da Vinci Code judgment. Starting in paragraph 1 (page 5) he highlighted 42 letters in bold italic, the first ten spelling “smithy code” and the remainder (ending on page 13) a jumble yet to be decoded. Yesterday’s New York Times […]
