Does anyone know what happened to the Blawg Republic? They’ve been down for many more than “a few weeks.”
(I like that their logo continues to say, “The Blawg Republic is Updated Hourly.” Perhaps they’re actually on Venus. That would explain it.)
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AbsTracked
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Nick Holmes
Anyone want to have a go at “the law publishers”
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Barbara Gordon
Via Outlaw, Canadian Court says ‘linking defamatory material is not the same as publishing it’. Although there does seem to be some conditions vis a vis not commenting on the defamatory content in order to qualify but still!
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jenenifer
The Guardian have taken a step forward in their online information service, and are now providing the full-text of their articles through their RSS feeds, rather than an irritating excerpt. They are (apparently) the first major newspaper to do this. I’m never keen on RSS feeds that don’t give me the full text, so I’m very pleased to hear this!
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neilstewart
Nicholas Carr writes an extremely thought-provoking post about the centripetal web, in which Wikipedia and Google are the twin black holes, sucking in website hits to the detriment of smaller sites.
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Steve
Internet Librarian is tracking twitter comments using the tweme #il2008. The stream of commentary is pretty interesting.
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neilstewart
A big shake-up of training for barristers in England & Wales has just been announced.
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connie
New blog post over on Slaw: Libraries vs. IT Departments . How do you propose we resolve our differences?
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Barbara Gordon
BBC article on the tatical retreat the current UK government has had to pull, after its plans for a 42 day detention were defeated by the House of Lords.
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Barbara Gordon
The debate on the counter-terrorism bill can watched on the Parliament video and audio page. Either live or from the start. The debate session started at 2:58pm.
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Nick Holmes
Has anyone tried out the Lexis Web beta search engine yet? At first it seems quite natty, with good, relevant result sets. But the related search widgets are lame and the complete no-no is framing the linked pages.
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Steve
Google confirms RSS for Web Search Results coming soon.
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Steve
I’m a long time user of bloglines, but my patience is almost done. Feed items are trickling in too late to be useful.
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neilstewart
This guy’s personal library is like that of some renaissance prince, except with state of the art 21st century technology. He must have made some serious money! [hat tip to kottke.org]
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Barbara Gordon
Max Mosley has applied to the European Court of Human Rights in an attempt to reform the UK’s privacy laws by forcing UK newspaper editors to tell people when they are going to publish stories about them.
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Barbara Gordon
Oxford and Cambridge are to release lectures via iTunes.
Oxford University says it will publish 150 hours of video and audio material of lectures and ideas from “world-leading thinkers”.
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Steve
Nick asked if I thought Twitter trumped law.librarians in the other comments…
I love twitter, but it is a river and lots of stuff gets missed. I’d rather drop a link here and get feedback, even if people are popping in every couple of days, or even every week. We’re all rss enabled, so it shouldn’t be hard, should it?
This is a good catch-up spot for a very distinct group. I’m a big fan of focused conversations, and maybe we could find a way of creating a tag to import twitter conversations here?
Microblogging has a future outside of twitter, and this is a great start. Maybe we ask again for more members?
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Nick Holmes
Are none of you lot coming to the Free Legal Web Barcamp? Thanks to Scott and Jennifer for earlier publicising/commenting on this.
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Steve
Posted over on Slaw about the retro 2001 Google index.
Ok, well someone had to get the ball rolling again, right? :)
