Legal Research

Public Lending Right in the new Digital Economy Bill

Posted on November 20, 2009
The Government has published the Digital Economy Bill. It contains lots of interesting things, which I may come back to in further pots, but I thought that as a Librarian (it is easy to forget reading this blog), I should bring people’s attention to Section 44 - Public lending right (1) Section 5(2) of the Public Lending [...

EU Telecoms package set to pass as EP and Council compromise on internet freedom

Posted on November 05, 2009
Well it happened quicker than I thought, but the European Parliament (EP) and the Council of Ministers reached an agreement on EU Telecoms Reform, by the end of the first day of the conciliation procedure. The two sides reached a quite comprise over the clause to guarantee access to the internet...

TALK to your employees - The radical approach to managing social media usage

Posted on November 03, 2009
Thanks to James Mullan and Headshift for bringing my attention to this must read post of Capgemini’s ‘Capping IT Off’ blog entitled ‘4 Myths about blocking Internet access in the enterprise’ The post echoes comments I made in my post from last week ‘Why ?wasted time? is wasted column inches’ about just why blocking access to [...

Is Twitter the rss reader of the future?

Posted on October 30, 2009
Web Worker Daily is asking a question that a number of people have asked during 2009, and that is ? Is Twitter replacing the rss reader? Interestingly another blogger Jeff Tucker did a post yesterday entitled RSS Isn?t Dead, So Better Organize Your Feed Reader I think the answer to WWD’s question probably depends [...

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Why ?wasted time? is wasted column inches

Posted on October 29, 2009
I see this week it was that time of year when surveys or reports come out detailing how much the UK economy is effected by ‘wasted time’ in the workplace. Of course, there is always a scapegoat for this and the headline in the Daily Telegraph ‘Twitter ‘costs British economy £1...

You raise me up ?

Posted on October 23, 2009
You, my regular reader, will no doubt have realised what a genius I am by now … or a genuine arse perhaps … but I think my true essence may have been captured by this new comment that was ? for some strange reason ? flagged as spam: “A wonderful article?...

Pop Life

Posted on October 23, 2009
My girlfriend’s sister, Linda, who is Librarian/Library Manager at Peckham Library in London, now has a music video claim to fame. Around 1min and 20 seconds into this Newton Faulkner video for his new single - Over and Out , Linda is seen in the library serving Newton, and showing some good back acting action...

3 Strikes on the way ? and not a postie in sight

Posted on October 23, 2009
It looks like the European Commission is now set to get its way and EU member states will get a French style 3 Strikes rule for alleged internet illegal filesharers and the like. Just as it was announced that the conciliation procedure was set to start between member states and the European Parliament (EP) over [...

KM - There is no timeline

Posted on October 21, 2009
Amber Corrin has written a very interesting story on Federal Computer Week entitled ‘DOD finds knowledge management a tricky fit’. What made me laugh was how easy it was to replace mentions of the Defense Department with lawyers in statements like: “As much as Defense Department officials like the idea of knowledge management, they [...

apComms report says no to 3 strikes, net neutrality rules and more

Posted on October 15, 2009
The All Party Parliamentary Communications Group (apComms) is an independent group of MPs and Lords, from all political parties, which seeks to encourage debate on a range of communications issues, have published the findings of its public inquiry ?Can we keep our hands off the Net?? The report makes refreshing reading, and makes some good [...

Race to the back

Posted on October 06, 2009
I have had enough of Tesco. Whilst other companies such as Waitrose and drinks giant Diageo make the decision to pull their advertising from appearing during Fox News commentator Glenn Beck’s show (which is also broadcast on the Sky TV platform in Britain) Tesco continue This issue relates to the presenter’s accusation that President Barack [...

Shrinkwrap licence doesn?t prevent resale of software a person ?owns?

Posted on October 02, 2009
Interesting case out of the US District Court (Washington) this week, looking at the issue of whether an individual can re-sell software on sites such as ebay under the US’s first sale doctrine. The Court said yes, and the existence of the shrinkwrap ‘licence’ does not prevent you from doing so...

Why I became a Librarian

Posted on October 01, 2009
Woodsiegirl - yes her again, had a nice post about why she became a librarian. She liked it so much she set up a wiki for others to share their stories too. She became a librarian by accident. My mom often used to mention my name and accidents too. When I was younger, a lot of friends [...

Reading habits - Meme

Posted on September 28, 2009
Picked up this meme Via Organising Chaos / WoodsieGirlDo you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack?Does a nice glass of red wine, a cold beer, or a cup of Earl Grey tea (depending on time of year/location) count?Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of [...

Like a Virgin - Target practice for mobile operators?

Posted on September 24, 2009
Latest issue of New Media Markets has an interesting article on why Virgin Media could be a good target for a major mobile player. Whilst any move may still be months/years away, Christopher Nicholson from equity research firm Oraca identifies Telefonica and KPN as the most likely candidates to make the move...

Ofcom takes 6 years to do something it should have done in 6 weeks

Posted on September 23, 2009
There are times when Ofcom really really annoy me. Case in point is a notification and draft direction issued today to Infolines Public Networks Limited (Infolines). Ofcom is proposing to suspend Infoline?s code powers for being breach of Regulation 16 of the Electronic Communications Code (ECC), as detailed in the Electronic Communications Code (Conditions and [...

Court rules ?browsewrap? agreement unenforceable

Posted on September 18, 2009
I was interested this week to come across a new ‘browsewrap’ case. A browsewrap agreements are basically ones which say you accept the terms and conditions of the website you’re using. Generally it can only be enforced if a user assents to it ? or there is a reasonable likelihood that they would be aware [...

Ads the way I like it

Posted on September 17, 2009
A mixed week for ITV this week. News that the Competition Commission’s provisional view was that the Contract Rights Renewal (CRR) Undertakings, given to protect advertisers from the loss of competition in the sale of TV advertising, following the merger of Carlton and Granada in 2003/4 should stay in place, would have been a big [...

Govt looks at whether to ditch defamation ?multiple publication? rule

Posted on September 16, 2009
The UK government is consulting on whether there needs to be changes in the UK’s civil law on defamation in particular in relation to the ‘multiple publication’ rule, established in 1849 in the Duke of Brunswick v Harmer. Currently each publication of defamatory material gives rise to a separate cause of action which is subject to [...

Video Law ? not law after all

Posted on August 28, 2009
One of the more interesting and embarrassing things to come out of the UK government’s programme to implement aspects of its Digital Britain report, came to light this week when the government had to admit that the Video Recordings Act (VRA) 1984, which set down that videos and video games must be classified and age [...

Good morning Mr Librarian - Can you recommend a legal database?

Posted on August 26, 2009
All the talk in the legal information world over the past couple of days has been around an unfortunate marketing email from West (Westlaw to us in the UK) advertising the usefulness of desktop access to their legal research products. The email asked the question: “ARE YOU ON A FIRST NAME BASIS WITH THE LIBRARIAN?” I guess [...

London paper axed - hurrah

Posted on August 21, 2009
So, after my questioning how Mr Murdoch could be giving his physical papers away cheap or for free on the one hand and want to charge for that content online on the other, comes the news that  News International is pulling the plug on its afternoon freesheet, the London Paper...

#333 or #3×3

Posted on August 20, 2009
Was thinking I’ve been meme-less for a while, so whilst Iwas sitting waiting for a help desk to sort out something for me I thought how about 3×3 or 333: Three Books, Albums, and Films you’d recommend from 2009, thus far. Things you think were good enough to deserve wider attention...

Iphone app usage

Posted on August 17, 2009
I was thinking about iPhone apps that I use this morning, and decided to note which 10 have I used the most in the last month. [Liks to sites, not the apps] Tweetie: - My Twitter app of choice. Twittrena, TweetDeck and Twitterfon are all fine and each have good points, but Tweetie still just pips [...

Twittering rubbish

Posted on August 12, 2009
@DessieCooke728 - my place is available or we can do yours. @Sutton424 - I have been hurt so many times. I need a guy to love me. Kisses xoxo Jessie. @IRENED5Xpq - Good to here. Partying all weekend and GD was awesome @Lueckhi - you can find yourself here Yes, it’s those wonderful people who decide to [...

Survey of library services in UK professional bodies

Posted on August 10, 2009
I was just reading the results of an interesting survey of library services in UK professional bodies by Cathy Linacre, Head of Library and Information Services at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. According to Cathy, most of the research that has been done to date on the effects of the move to online delivery of content [...

Randomness

Posted on August 06, 2009
It’s funny when Twitter goes down how much you realise you use it for things. Apparently they’re fighting a denial of service attack today. This did give me an opportunity to revisit Identica. Problem was couldn’t remember my password, and every time I requested help, I get told that ‘Instructions for recovering your password have [...

Free News is Dead, Long Live Free News

Posted on August 06, 2009
In a week where the Guardian Media Group was reported to be considering closing down its (and the UK’s first) Sunday newspaper, the Observer, as part of a strategic company review, Rupert Murdoch announced that News International was going ahead with plans to charge for content on all their newspaper websites...

A in E not meant to be like A&E - honest guv ?

Posted on August 05, 2009
It’s been a while since an Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruling made me laugh, but their decision against Alcohol in Emergency Ltd for a circular, for their alcohol delivery service (in the Southampton area) did raise a smile. Not due to the ruling, I might add, but due to the wonderfully believable response to [...

First woman praises my blog

Posted on August 04, 2009
I’d like to thank Eve for her comment on a recent post who summed up the experience of reading my blog when she said:  “Your writing allowed me to open my subconscious self, as I?ve been in¬clined to suppress my physical desires in the presence of others...

Excellent free Contract Law resource

Posted on August 03, 2009
Mike Semple Piggot  - aka CharonQC ? has created at very useful resource on Contract Law at his Insitelaw site. The project includes a text - based on textbook written by which he developed for teaching law students at BPP Law School ? which he founded...

Court clears Google search in defamation case

Posted on July 21, 2009
The High Court has ruled that Google cannot be can be regarded as a publisher of alleged defamatory statements found on a third party site by means of a snippet of text returned in its search results generated from the combination of terms. The Court was hearing a request by Google to set aside a Masters [...

I?m rich! (Again)

Posted on July 10, 2009
SUB: LATE SIR. JOHN PAUL GETTY’S WILL I wish to notify you that the late Sir John. Paul Getty Jr. made you one of the beneficiaries to his WILL. You are entitiled to 11% of his total funds of GBP88,260,443.00. For more information, contact me at: charlesrussell...

KM and E2.0

Posted on July 09, 2009
Greg Lambert at 3 Geeks and a Blog (yes them again) has a post entitled ‘KM’s View of E2.0 - Savior or Harbinger of Death?’ which I read on the way home. It interested me because earlier in the day I had been reading a post by Sourcepov on ‘KM Evolution’ and touched on some [...

3G coverage maps reveal what we already know - coverage still poor

Posted on July 08, 2009
Ofcom has published copies of 3G coverage maps for each of the UK’s 5 national 3G licence holders ? 02, Vodafone,T-Mobile, Orange, and H3G. It makes for a very entertaining read for such a short doc. Ofcom can’t state enough that you really shouldn’t rely on these maps for anything, all but saying they are worthless...

Bloobble: Home of TMT related presentations

Posted on July 07, 2009
In the course of searching for some information on a company yesterday I came across as presentation sharing site I was not previously aware of called Bloobble. According to the site “Bloobble is offering a new service for professionals of the electronic sector to watch and share presentations through a web experience”...

Twitter, RT and Porn

Posted on July 03, 2009
Two articles on the subject of Twitter have caught my eye today, both concerning aspects of advertising. The first article by Phil Bradley asks whether Twitter’s ‘Re-Tweet’ functionality could and is starting to be exploited to an extent where it will effectively kill Twitter...

Law firm publications - US aggregator enters market

Posted on June 29, 2009
Greg Lambert at the 3 Geeks and a Law Blog has a short review of a lawfirm publications aggregator called myCorporateResource.com. About a year ago I wrote a comparison article of three other aggregators: Lexology, Mondaq and Linex Legal for Internet Newsletter for Lawyers & Law 2...

DAB: Like FM but more letters

Posted on June 24, 2009
As I am sure you’ll all have finished reading Digital Britain by now … I found myself reading this piece in the Indie last week and soon found myself saying oh yes more than the Churchill dog. In it Nicolas Lezard questions the logic behind the Government’s plans for DAB radio...

School Library Crime

Posted on June 09, 2009
Being one of those strange creatures that still insists on buying a newspaper ever day, I was interested by a short piece in today’s Independent (my weekday paper of choice ? and yes it is too preachy, but it’s easier to read on train/DLR than Guardian/Torygraph) by Terence Blacker on the gradual killing off of [...

Crowdsource your legal research?

Posted on May 28, 2009
There is an interesting set of posts on the 3 Geeks and a Law Blog about using crowdsourcing with lawfirms to accomplish certain research tasks. They are pleasantly surprised by the quality of results they get back for tasks paying only 10-50 cents per task, using Amazon’s MTurk ‘crowdsource’ work system...

Enterprise 2.0: A different culture is a corequisite

Posted on May 28, 2009
Paula Thornton at The FASTForward Blog has a great piece on Enterprise 2.0: “Enterprise 2.0 Isn?t a Checklist” Whilst it doesn’t contain any radical new thinking on the way to success for Enterprise 2.0 ? It’s the people, stupid ? I do like the way her mind thinks and how she expresses things...

Burglr

Posted on May 19, 2009
I came across this site  and it gave me an idea for a new web2 startup, that I’d like to call, Burglr I see two types of account: Sharer and Follower. Sharer Account: List all the good and possessions you have in your house. Sign up to use ‘always on’ GPS location tool...

Women buy computers too - really?

Posted on May 13, 2009
I could not resist a short blog post about Dell’s new netbook. It looks like a nice little machine. Dell obviously agree, and have also decided that what they need to do is target women. So much so they have set up a ‘Della‘ part of their website to tell women why they should get [...

3 Strikes and your out ?of step with the EU

Posted on May 12, 2009
According to the BBC the French National Assembly has passed the Hadopi law (by 296 to 233) which will implement a three strikes rule that would cut internet access to anyone ‘caught’ illegal file sharing. A new state agency, the Hadopi, would first send illegal file-sharers a warning e-mail, then a letter, and finally cut [...

US govt agencies get to join in on social networking

Posted on May 07, 2009
I notice that the US government has signed some new agreements with a variety of social media sites to allow federal agencies to follow President Obama’s lead by joining the likes of Facebook and MySpace to help increase citizen participation in government...

Lucky Manchester

Posted on May 06, 2009
It seems that the residents of Manchester will be the first people in the UK to benefit from feeling safe in knowing who they are. The government’s wonderful plan to issue us all with ID cards that we don’t have to carry is starting in earnest (a small village on the outskirts of Manchester, I [...

Temple of Low Men

Posted on May 06, 2009
“In the temple of love: shine like thunder; In the temple of love: cry like rain, In the temple of love: hear my calling, In the temple of love: hear my name …” Temple of Love - Sisters of Mercy I bring you news from a strange world...

Taxonomies - reanimated or dying?

Posted on April 22, 2009
The Current issue of Online has an article by Seth Earley entitled ‘The New Versus Old Schools of Taxonomies, Metadata,and Information Architecture’ which takes as its starting point a prediction from CMS Watch that predicted with the rise of social computing that ‘Taxonomies are dead...

Internet Traffic enquiry

Posted on April 22, 2009
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Communications (apComms) has launched an inquiry into Internet traffic to assess whether the current regulation of ISPs and a range of Internet traffic issues from behavioural advertising and privacy to child abuse images and Internet neutrality is still fit for purpose, and if not whether government and/or further legislative action [...

Sharpe Blog

Posted on April 20, 2009
I discovered last week that a lawyer in CMT (then MCC) Group here at CC Towers - way back when - has a nice little Commercial/TMT blog. Andrew, who is a Partner at Charles Russell is behind, CRITique - an “unofficial blog from the Commercial Team at the law firm of Charles Russell LLP” Good stuff [...

The Ghost Twitterer

Posted on April 02, 2009
Yesterday on Techcrunch Mrinal Desai asked if twitter was turning into myspace. Interesting piece, but I was more interested in his reference to to growing trend of ‘Ghost Twitterers’. This lead me to a New York Times article I’d missed last week on the Ghost Twitterers and a great quote from basketball star Shaquille O?Neal, [...

Ignore the real story, just concentrate on the porn

Posted on March 31, 2009
You know it is not often I feel sorry for government ministers these days, but I have to admit the whole mountain out of a molehill surrounding the fact that Jacqui Smith’s husband downloaded an watched a couple of soft-core porn films has been ridiculous...

There is no ?right way? for lawfirms to adopt social software

Posted on March 23, 2009
I was alerted, by James Mullan , to a post on social software adoption in law firms on Michael Idinopulos’s blog. Michael’s view is that most law firms take exactly the wrong approach to social software rollout. “They try to “chip away” at social software implementation by starting with “easy” use cases like know-how...

Newssift - promising new business news search engine

Posted on March 19, 2009
The FT has launched a new business news search engine called Newssift. Newssift indexes about 4,000 business news sources, from online newspapers and blogs to news portals and research sites. It is ingesting about 120,000 articles a day right now and applying semantic tags to each one...

Ofcom starts twittering

Posted on March 18, 2009
Russ at Ofcomwatch has alerted me to the fact that our communication regulator, Ofcom, has joined Twitter: no, really they have - here’s their page, and here is a page on the Ofcom site about Twitter. The first three posts are links to Ofcom press releases, site updates - but done with an attempt to [...

New Trainees & Selling Yourself

Posted on March 06, 2009

Google: We don?t need Twitter, we have Gtalk ? ok ?

Posted on March 04, 2009

More experts ask ?where?s the evidence? on extending sound recordings copyright

Posted on February 27, 2009

Just Beta it, Just beta it ?

Posted on February 25, 2009
I came across an iPhone app for Brightkite the other day, which was handy as it reminded me that I actually have a Brightkite account. I could remember it was a kind of location tracking/updating tool but little else. I have since had a further play with it and am not really sure it gives [...

I see the lawyer of the future - and (s)he?s carrying an eBook Reader

Posted on February 25, 2009
Nick Holmes over at Binary Law has an interesting piece of the impending doom that is print media - or at least traditional ‘hard copy’ print as we know it today. In particular, he raises the question of the future of the future of legal publications such as Law journals (particularly the more scholarly ones) [...

Sitefinder case remitted back to Information Tribunal

Posted on February 23, 2009
The Court of Appeal has remitted back to the Information Tribunal an appeal by Ofcom against a decision of the Information Commissioner that Ofcom must supply the full Sitefinder dataset - including the names of operators, locations and power levels of all mobile base stations - to parties who request it...

Facebook addresses yet more trust issues

Posted on February 17, 2009
Facebook has once again hit the headlines: this time over a subtle change made to their Terms of Service. They have deleted a line relating to their use of your content that said ” If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company [...

Walk on the Wilder Side with High Point Holidays

Posted on February 16, 2009
This is a press release from a friend of mine who runs a small travel company with his dad - who has sadly now fallen ill. I post it here just in case anyone coming to the website is into the idea of a more bespoke holiday experience and likes walking/cycling...

ECJ rejects challenge to data retention directive

Posted on February 11, 2009
The European Court of Justice has dismissed Ireland’s challenge of the legal basis for the data retention directive (2006/24/EC). Ireland was arguing that the European Commission did not have the power to adopt the directive as the matter should have been adopted under the ‘third pillar’ which deals with matters concerning public security and the [...

Google launches another blog - do we care?

Posted on February 10, 2009
I notice that Google has launched a Social Web blog, which will provide ‘news and updates about Google products that are helping to make the web more social.’  Now this sounds all well and good and might turn out to be a useful and informative resource, or it might just turn out to be a [...

ISPs get legislation to help them police file-sharers

Posted on January 29, 2009
The government has published its interim Digital Britain report today. I have written a post on various aspects of the report at Ofcom watch, but here I want to just highlight the government’s announced approach to illegal Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing...

Find Any Film

Posted on January 28, 2009
The UK Film Council has just launched a film search engine - findanyfilm.com - allowing UK film buffs to locate films legally availbale in the UK ( Note: It does not class DVDs encoded for regions outside of ‘region 2′ as being legal). According to the site: “our aim to give you the best possible movie [...

At long last COPA dies.

Posted on January 22, 2009
The US Supreme Court has decided not to hear the appeal by the US government against a Third Circuit Court of Appeals decision (itself upholding a District Court ruling (remanded from the Supreme Court) that, the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (COPA) is unconstitutional...

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (PARLIAMENT) ORDER 2009

Posted on January 20, 2009
Because our Politicians think they are above the law, and can just change the law if a court tells them to do things, it is pleasing to see some are willing to take a stand. This early day motion is one you should keep an eye on to see if your MP wants to hide [...

On the edge of the (Sir) Cliff

Posted on January 19, 2009
Regular readers will be aware of my position on the EU’s proposals for a term extension on the related rights in sound recordings. The Open Rights Group have produced this informative video explaining some of the reasons for my opposition to the proposals.

Iceland, Latvia & Lithuania - Government RSS feeds

Posted on January 19, 2009
ICELAND Ministry of Finance [Website] Feeds News http://www.ministryoffinance.is/view/common/content/rss?WebCategoryID=1262&total=12&charset=iso-8859-1 Fjármálaráðuneyti.is - fréttir http://www.fjarmalaraduneyti.is/view/common/content/rss?WebCategoryID=1228&total=6&charset=iso-8859-1&ShowCData=Yes Fjármálaráðuneyti...

Blue Bollocks

Posted on January 19, 2009
“Experts say Monday, January 19, 2009, will go down as the most depressing day in history.” reads the headline. Now I had gotten up this morning feeling not too bad. I’d watched on the news about Obama’s latest party bash, and how everyone is looking forward to him becoming President of the US tomorrow; I’d checked [...

Portuguese government departments with rss feeds

Posted on January 16, 2009
Presidência da República Portuguesa [Website] Feeds Nota informativa http://www.presidencia.pt/?action=13 Mininistry of Foreign Affairs / Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros [Website] Feeds Noticias http://feeds.feedburner.com/MNEnoticias Ministry of Health / Ministério da Saúde [Website] Feeds Actualidades http://www...

ISPs face prospect of legal obligation to do rights holder copyright policing

Posted on January 16, 2009
I note that the UK government has published the responses to its consultation on unlawful Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing and its impact on the British arts and entertainment industries. The consultation called for evidence on the issues involved and invited views from rights holders, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), consumer organisations and the wider public on a [...

Jaiku?s dead, Long live Jaiku?

Posted on January 15, 2009
Google has announced that it is pulling the plug on Jaiku - the once very promising Twitter competitor. Or, at least, it is stopping developing it as an ‘official google service’ - along with doing the same or killing off: Google Catalog Search, Google Notebook, Dodgeball and the Google Mashup Editor...

Finnish government departments with rss feeds

Posted on January 15, 2009
This is the 20th country I have done so far. Complete list here Government Portal [Website] Feeds Tiedotteet http://www.valtioneuvosto.fi/import/DocumentFeedServlet?collect=rss&type=pressrelease Puheet http://www.valtioneuvosto.fi/import/DocumentFeedServlet?collect=rss&type=speech Ministry of Finance / Valtiovarainministerio [Website] Feeds Tiedotteet http://www...

The right Byline

Posted on January 14, 2009
If you use Google Reader as you main RSS reader (and I do) and also have an iPhone (I do) then the chances are there will be times when you want to read your feeds via your phone. Google steps in and provides an handy mobile version of Google Reader, that has been tweeked to [...

Much Ado about Librarians

Posted on January 14, 2009
Thanks to the Notes about Libraries blog for bringing my attention to this early April fool from Edinburgh council reported in the Torygraph. If the story is to be believed then the powers that be in the capital of Scotlandia think the term ‘Librarian’ is a bit out dated, and needs jazzing up a bit...

It?s not just about RSS readers

Posted on January 13, 2009
“A market without enterprise use of business class RSS readers is like a flock of sitting ducks. Any company that steps up to make serious strategic use of such software should be at an immediate advantage in terms of early and efficient access to information...

Resolutions

Posted on January 09, 2009
Well, I’m going to make a bit more of an effort to write more on library and information related issues on Information Overlord than I did during 2008, where much of my blogging was more about media and telecoms news/cases. I’ll still be doing that kind of thing too, but looking to get a bit [...

Sea of Poppies

Posted on January 09, 2009
Despite iOverlord’s protestations that there would be more library content on this blog, this is instead another foray into the seemingly endless task of blogging the Booker nominees.  Sea of Poppies as it happens, and not my favourite read… Interminable, unbearable, trying far too hard and not succeeding - all completely reasonable and pertinent descriptors [...

Burnham?s related rights and wrongs

Posted on January 07, 2009
Back in December I had one of my rants about the proposal the extend the protection in sound recordings . Following that rant, Andrew Gowers and Andy Burham traded letters in the FT, with Gowers calling Burhams position ’silly’. What follows is most of Burhams response and my comments on it...

Top 10 Films of 2008

Posted on December 23, 2008
Now I have to confess I have managed to miss a number of films such as Wall-E that i should have seen, but of what I did see, these were the best (and most came out at the beginning of the year and were Oscar nominated) 1. There Will be Blood - Seeing this at the [...

Albums of the Year

Posted on December 23, 2008
This was quite hard, as outside of the top half dozen or so there were a lot of good solid records that could have made up the numbers. Also there were several albums that may well belong on the list but, I just have not given a good enough listen too to include, so, sorry: Elbow, [...

The Birds and the Bees - An English lesson

Posted on December 17, 2008
So, there I was sitting eating my lunch - a Cajun chicken baguette (thanks for asking) when I started wondering about the birds and the bees. Thankfully, I also came to some conclusions, which I will share with you all now. Mock Duck : An instruction...

Rouken Glen Park

Posted on December 17, 2008
A bit of a different post from me today - yes, no rss feeds from Andorra or the like. Calm yourselves. Anyway, an old school friend’s children - Mia & Sam - entered a competition to write about fun places to go in Scotland and their entry about their local park, Rouken Glen Park has [...

Danish government departments with rss feeds

Posted on December 15, 2008
“That it should come to this!” - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1.2 Udenrigsministeriet / Ministry of Foreign Affairs [Website] Feeds Nyheder Udenrigspolitik http://www.um.dk/CMS.Web/Modules/RssFeeds/default.aspx?channelUrl=http://localhost/www...

More ?B? government departments with rss feeds

Posted on December 15, 2008
Belarus Ministry of Culture [Website] Feeds News http://kultura.by/rus/news.rss Ministry of Public Health [Website] Feeds News http://www.minzdrav.by/tools/rss/rss.xml Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) [Website] Feeds News http://mvd.gov.by/rss.php Ministry of Transport and Communications [Website] Feeds News http://www...

The CAT?s whiskers

Posted on December 15, 2008
The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has re-launched its website. [For those outside of the UK, the CAT is a specialist judicial body whose function is to hear and decide cases involving competition or economic regulatory issues.] The old version of the site was hit by a javascript malware infection in May/June, which caused the site [...

Norwegian government departments with rss feeds [ALL of them!]

Posted on December 11, 2008
It had to happen one day, and today is that day. My (pointless?) quest to create lists of rss feeds offered by government departments around the world (or Europe, at least) has at last found a winner. Take a bow Norway, who offer feed for EVERY single government department...

Andy & Charlie show tells music industry what they want to hear

Posted on December 11, 2008
Andy Burnham seems to have been finally hooked by the Music Industry and now wants to support calls for extending the term of protection for recorded performances from 50 years. At the moment he is still stopping short of the EU’s proposal to extend it to 95 years, instead calling for “An extension to match [...

Greek government departments with rss feeds

Posted on December 10, 2008
Before listing the couple of sites with feeds, i just wanted to stop to nominate the Ministry of Commerce site as one of the most horrible I have ever seen. Ministry of National Economy [Website] Feeds All http://www.mnec.gr/el/press_office/rss/rss.xml News http://www...

IWF admits Wikipedia blocking counter productive

Posted on December 10, 2008
The Internet Watch Foundation announced today that they have unblocked access to the wikepedia page that contained the image from the Scorpions album cover Virgin Killer. According to the press release from the IWF “Following representations from Wikipedia, IWF invoked its Appeals Procedure and has given careful consideration to the issues involved in this case...

Twitter from the past

Posted on December 09, 2008
It’s competition time on Informationoverlord. For the chance to win absolutely nothing - or as it is Christmas maybe something that I have (and don’t want) - just add your suggestions for tweets from the past. Jesus: “At mount. Getting busy...

Legal publishers start to join the RSS train

Posted on December 08, 2008
They may be coming late to the party, but at long last the legal publishers are starting to add RSS delivery options to their content. The last few months has seen Westlaw UK, Lawtel, PLC and Justis all add feeds. This is good news, and great news if you sign on through individual passwords...

Scorpions album cover - child porn?

Posted on December 08, 2008
A number of sites seem to have picked up this story from Wikinews that a number of the UK’s main ISPs are using filtering software to block access the sites - and in this case Wikipedia entries - that contain material that has been flagged by the Internet Watch Foundation as containing [...

The Sun Never Shines on the Poor

Posted on November 27, 2008
“If I only had a dollar for every song I’ve sung/ I’d catch the next train back to where I live.” - John Fogerty (’Lodi’ - Creedence Clearwater Revival) A bunch of musicians this week sent a video message to prime Minister, Gordon Brown, urging him and the government to support plans by the European Commission [...

Polish government departments with rss feeds

Posted on November 26, 2008
Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego / Minstry of Culture and National Heritage [Website] Feeds Gorace http://www.mkidn.gov.pl/dziennikarze/mkidn_gorace_tematy.xml Aktualnosci http://www.mkidn.gov.pl/dziennikarze/mkidn_aktualnosci.xml Ministerstwo Gospodarki / Ministry of the Economy [Website] Feeds Aktualnosci http://www...

Romanian government departments with rss feeds

Posted on November 26, 2008
Ministerul Apararii / Ministry of Defence [Website] Feeds Stiri si informatii de presa http://www.mapn.ro/cpresa/rss.php Ministerul Educatiei, Cercetarii si Tineretului / Minstry of Education, Research and Youth [Website] Feeds Flux noutati - ultimele articole publicate în site http://www...

Chitty

Posted on November 25, 2008
Joseph Chitty releases his latest update of his legal book all about contracts. This is the 30th edition of the book, which he first published in 1826. I believe Mr Chitty is a vampire, which explains why he is still writing updates to his book 182 years after he published the first edition...

Lawfirm doesn?t understand internet

Posted on November 21, 2008
I read this morning (thanks Outlaw.com) that US lawfirm Jones Day have launched, what can only be described as, a stupid lawsuit against BlockShopper.com for publishing a link to a Jones Day lawyer profile on their site. Blockshopper describes itself as “a local news and market data service for current and aspiring homeowners, home buyers and [...

Rexyo - the non-search searchengine

Posted on November 20, 2008
Just been trying out a new search engine called Rexyo. It’s brilliant - sadly, not in a good way. According to Rexyo: “Rexyo is a versatile, highly scalable search engine currently available as an online Beta version. It is considered different from other search engines because it can search visually within images and video but also in [...

EMusic hit by domain chill in Canada

Posted on November 18, 2008
Online music company EMusic suffered a set back this week as the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) rejected their attempt to get the domain emusic.ca transferred to them. Under CIRA policy a complainant must show that there was a likelihood of confusion between the domain and the complaints registered trademark(s); that the domain owner has no [...

Consumer panel gets new name

Posted on November 17, 2008
The Ofcom Consumer Panel, and independent panel that was created to advise Ofcom on the consumer interest in the communications markets has today rebranded as the Communications Consumer Panel. The new name, which will see no change in in the panel?s relationship with Ofcom, is aimed at emphasising the panel?s role across all communications, and [...

The Clothes on Their Backs

Posted on November 12, 2008
Look - another Booker review, if much belated.. Linda Grant’s The Clothes on Their Backs, is a portrait of a post-war migrant family to London, struggling to find an emotional foothold in this new country. It is also a coming-of-age tale, recounting Vivian’s (the main character and narrator) young adulthood, as she comes [...

Who are you?

Posted on November 07, 2008
Now that America has sorted out its election, all eyes turn to the big decision in the UK in 2010. No, not who’ll be our next Prime Minister, but who will be the next Doctor Who. With David Tennant confirming (what, in all honesty, we already knew) that he will no be continuing past the [...

iPhone

Posted on November 07, 2008
It has been a while since I posted about the iPhone, and since a couple of people have recently asked me if my love for it has grown, and what apps I cannot live without, I thought a brief post was needed. My love has indeed grown. There are still issues with it: taking photos is [...

US Election

Posted on November 03, 2008
It is now only a day until the US Election. In just over 24 hours time we will hopefully know whether from January 2009, we will have four years of President McCain or President Obama. If the polls are to be believed it is already a done deal, and it will be the latter, but [...

Complaint bandwagon - hop on

Posted on October 28, 2008
It looks like Ofcom will be dragged into the media frenzy that has been caused by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand leaving phone messages for actor Andrew Sach’s (still best known for playing Manuel in Fawlty Towers). It seems likely that when they do that the BBC will get their fingers rapped, and no doubt [...

Swedish government departments with rss feeds

Posted on October 24, 2008
Sweden seems to have decided to pull all their governmental departments into one centralised site. Whilst this makes it easy to find things, it does make it harder to just filter the information you are interested in. Swedish Government [Website] Feeds News from the Swedish Government http://www...

Estonian government departments with RSS Feeds

Posted on October 24, 2008
Estonia has a reputation for being quite savvy when it comes to eGovernment - their Department of Foreign Affairs have a presence on Second Life for example - so it was disappointing to see how many of their ministerial departments are missing rss feeds...

Slovenian government departments with rss feeds

Posted on October 23, 2008
I have had a lot of emails (ok, it was only one) asking if I had abandoned my somewhat idiotic task of listing government rss feeds. Fear not, dear reader, I have not, and today present you with all you need to keep up with the happenings of the Slovenian government...

Slovakian government departments with rss feeds

Posted on October 23, 2008
Sadly, for every Slovenia, there is a Slovakia in RSS terms. I can only find??5 departments with feeds and only two of those seem to have a reliable working feed. Ministry of Agriculture / Ministerstvo p??dohospod??rstva [Website] Feed Aktuality http://www...

Libraries - Modernisation Review

Posted on October 22, 2008
Andy Burnham announced this review in a speech to the Public Libraries Association in Liverpool on 9th October. According to Burham, the government had brought Victorian Schools and Hospitals into the 21st century and now it was the turn of libraries...

Britney on Twitter and more ?

Posted on October 21, 2008
The news that Britney Spears had joined Twitter had the internet a flutter this weekend, with even Techcrunch claiming it was ???solid gold??? in Twitter???s push for the mainstream. Britney doesn???t seem to be directly involved in the updates herself, which are being done by ???her team???, but it is good to see they are [...

Lloyds TSB Online Banking Security

Posted on October 17, 2008
I got an email today telling me that I need to login to my online bank account and change my details to protect myself from fraud. Now, I’m not certain, but I think this might not have come from the bank … We recently determined that various computers connect on your account Lloyds TSD, Password and [...

More White Tiger

Posted on October 15, 2008
And so the votes are in, and this years Booker prize winner was The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Now you’ll have to hold on a bit longer until the combined wisdom of Scott & Jen pass their judgment on the Information Overlord winner, but congratulations to Aravind Adiga...

The White Tiger

Posted on October 14, 2008
Aravina Adiga’s book is the third book of the Booker shortlist to be set in modern day, but to spend its length looking back over a character’s ‘life-story’. Where this one perhaps differs is that we are informed very early on that out lead character is a murderous entrepreneur...

AG says that Data Retention Directive not ?3rd pillar? measure

Posted on October 14, 2008
The good people at Content and Carrier are reporting that Advocate General (AG) Bot has recommended that the European Court of Justice dismiss an appeal by Ireland for the annulment of the data retention directive (2006/24/EC) Ireland challenged the legal base of this Directive arguing that the European Commission did not have the power to [...

German court kills google image search for germans?

Posted on October 14, 2008
The Regional Court of Hamburg has apparently ruled that the use of thumbnail images in preview of search results by Google does infringe copyright. The Court ruled that no new work is created by thumbnails. This puts the German courts at odds with the American courts where court decisions in Kelly v Arriba and more [...

The Future?s bright, the future?s ? mobile.

Posted on October 10, 2008
I’m not telling you something you do not already know here. The Fact that Google has been developing its Android platform for so-called gPhones, was the only proof needed to tell you where the web’s biggest company sees the future. It is not the only one...

(Re)meme(ber) Music - the letter ?S?

Posted on October 09, 2008
Was thinking maybe I’d start a new Meme this week. But, what to do? - a Meme of your top 5 favourite internet memes perhaps? Favourite Todd Rundgren songs? (realised I’d be only person doing this one) … anyway, eventually decided on … drum roll please … Top 5 favourite songs by bands beginning with [...

Palin into insignificance

Posted on October 06, 2008
I don’t know about you, but all this politicking stuff is mighty tricky to understand. But I have read the interwebs and I now think I have mastered the US election thingie. One side want to keep America as a republic - they are called the Republicans; the other side want to turn it into a [...

Guest post - The Secret Scripture

Posted on October 01, 2008
See? This is what happens when you agree to do things at the pub. Reading all the Booker Prize nominees? Sounds like a great idea! I can guest post on your blog and everything! Which all sounds well and good at the time, untill you look at them all, and realise that you’re meant to [...

Linda Grant - The Clothes on Their Backs

Posted on October 01, 2008
Booker book number two is Linda Grant’s novel about a child of refugee parents, Vivien, searching for her own identity through the past of her uncle, Sandor - a reviled slum landlord.The book looks back on her own childhood growing up, and in particular her relationship with her parents, Evrin and ??Berta, and a pivotal [...

Booker Prize - a little more conversation

Posted on September 21, 2008
As some readers of this blog will know, every year I make an attempt to read all six of the Booker prize short-listed books. Being a bit mad, I even try and manage it (and in all but one occassion fail) to read them all before the announcement of the winner - [...

NHS gets a date?

Posted on September 16, 2008
Bet the folks at match.com were surprised this morning to find that they were teaming up with the national health service (NHS) I know I certainly was. But, what else could the press release title - ‘Match.com’ for NHS and suppliers launched - mean? Sadly, it seems the online dating site is not actually helping [...

Italian federal government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies with rss feeds

Posted on September 11, 2008
Italian Parliament [Website] Feeds Impegni ed attività http://www.governo.it/rss/impegni.asp Comunicati stampa dal Governo http://www.governo.it/rss/comunicati.asp Interviste ed interventi dal Governo http://www.governo.it/rss/interventi.asp Notizie dal Governo http://www...

FROM: MR MATHEW WILLIAM

Posted on September 11, 2008
I got an email from Mr Mathew William yesterday. He’s a banker from Burkina Faso. Apparently one of the bank’s clients died and left $25Million (his whole family died, you see. Plane crash. Terrible. Messy.) He died on 31st July 2000. Anyway, Mr William, knowing the kind of guy I am, has decided to share [...

French government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies with rss feeds

Posted on September 09, 2008
Premier Ministre [Website] Feeds You can get personalised RSS feeds by crossing themes (over 70 themes available) and types of documents (news alone, only speeches, press releases alone, the Council of Ministers) For example: Argiculture Les actualités http://www...

Irish government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies with rss feeds

Posted on September 05, 2008
Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) [Website] Feeds What’s New http://www.comreg.ie/about_us/rss.43.html Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources [Website] Feeds Press releases http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/rss/press.xml Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government [Website] Feeds Latest News http://www...

Dutch government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies with rss feeds

Posted on September 05, 2008
Dutch Government Feeds Press releases and news items http://www.government.nl/rss.jsp?objectid=25 Pers- en nieuwsberichten http://www.regering.nl/rss.jsp?objectid=92357 Persberichten ministerraad http://www.regering.nl/rss.jsp?objectid=42093 Autoriteit Financiële Markten /Authority for the Financial Markets [Website] Feeds Persberichten van de AFM http://www...

Spanish government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies with rss feeds

Posted on September 04, 2008
Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones (CMT) / Commission for the Telecommunications Market [Website] Feeds Press Releases http://www.cmt.es/en/comunicados_de_prensa_en.rss Public Employment Offers http://www.cmt.es/en/ofertas_de_empleo_publico_en...

I Knew the bride ?

Posted on September 03, 2008
I’m often touched by a kind email. I’ve now won so many millions on Prize draws, and from Nigerians and others wanting to get their money out of countries that I just have too much - I mean there is only so much Viagra and Cialis a man can buy...

German federal government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies with rss feeds

Posted on September 02, 2008
Why single out the UK I thought when I published my UK list of government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies with rss feeds. So here are the German feeds I know about. [Also, I decided to stick both this and the UK list on a wiki...

Move completed

Posted on November 11, 2007
Have now fixed feed and moved this part of site to http://www.informationoverlord.co.uk/oldblog. New look blog now at http://www.informationoverlord.co.uk and feed http://www.informationoverlord.co.uk/?feed=rss2 (which should bepicked up by my feedburner feed) but if you don't see any new content in next few days, it means not working!

On the Move

Posted on November 10, 2007
I have decided to move this blog over to Wordpress. As a result,this part of the site will no become an archive. The New blog is here and the feed here

Information

Posted on November 08, 2007
This is really rather cool. Frommthe same man who brought us the equally cool Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

What's my name

Posted on November 08, 2007
Prince is still trying to get Web Sheriff to police the internet and help him remove any photos, videos featuring his music and any other images to protect his 'image'. According to the Beeb he is also hoping to have any album covers, images of him in concert and any lyrics removed...

Should Dewey Retire?

Posted on October 31, 2007
I was thrown back into the world of cataloguing for a brief period earlier today when reading a great post by Paige Turner (still wish I'd have thought of that nom de plume). 'Paige' has a blog detailing the development of the new Swansea central library...

CC sponsors Blog

Posted on October 31, 2007
I see Clifford Chance is now sponsoring a blog. Conflict of Law is a "news and discussion portal to those interested in the conflict of laws (otherwise known as private international law)." Which is a posh way of saying it's a blog. To be fair, it is a blog I've been following for a while and contains some good stuff - if private international law is your thing - so congrats to Martin George...

MindMaps

Posted on October 30, 2007
Simon at Slaw mentioned a mindmapping tool I wasn't aware of - Mind42 , which in turn reminded me to bookmark and mention one that I came across late last week called Wisemapping . Both are Beta products, and look promising.

Happy Halloween

Posted on October 30, 2007
With All Hallows Eve upon us, I thought you'd like some links to some Halloween goodies on YouTube...This is Halloween song from The Nightmare Before ChristmasBuffy and HalloweenThe Simpsons -'The Raven' The Trailer for the Original Halloween filmSiouxsie and the Banshees -Halloween Ryan Adams - Halloweenhead and finally, The History of Halloween from the History Channel

Jiglu

Posted on October 29, 2007
Decided to give Jiglu a try on this site and my other site Todd is God. Jiglu is "a super-smart engine that pieces your site together, intelligently tagging and linking your web content" ...That's what they say, but in reality, does it work??? No results for this site as I write, but over on Todd is God it has identified the "people" : 'Sunny Afternoon' (as in the Kinks Song) and 'Summer Clothes' ( as in 'Girls in their SUMMER CLOTHES - a track on the new Bruce Springsteen album)...

Sky offer up 3% for ITV competition concern clearance

Posted on October 29, 2007
BskyB, Virgin and others have replied to the possible remedies and the provisional findings of the Competition Commission (CC) that the acquisition by British Sky Broadcasting plc (BSkyB) of a 17.9 percent share in ITV restricts competition, and therefore operates against the public interest...

Yahoo pulls plug on 360

Posted on October 26, 2007
It seems that Yahoo has finally decided to pull the plug on their original failed attempt at social networking/blogging - Yahoo 360. This is not a great surprise, especially considering that they are currently beta-ing yet another attempt, with 'Mash'So what is the reason? "Yahoo! is building a universal profile system to provide a more integrated experience...

CC Challenge lethal injection to gain Stay of execution

Posted on October 26, 2007
I'm sure most people reading this will know I work for Clifford Chance. We're a corporate law firm so we don't usually hit the headlines in other aspects of law. So it makes a change to report that lawyers from our London and New York offices succeeded in securing a stay of execution for Jack Alderman, the US' longest serving death row prisoner, who was due to be executed last Friday by lethal injection...

Sporting Stuff

Posted on October 26, 2007
I had to do some sport related research yesterday (sadly not something I get asked to do that often) so I thought it might be an idea to list a few sources that I have found useful.World Sports Law Report (and associated blog)Sports Betting Update (subscription service from PA Sport)Sport Business - news siteEUFootball...

Crackberry Facebook

Posted on October 26, 2007
If any more proof was needed that business' need to think again about allowing access to sites such as Facebook, then surely the announcement from RIM that they have launched Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones, for that essential business tool - the BlackBerry - is it...

Swedebook

Posted on October 26, 2007
According the The Local,Pär Ström, a member of the Swedish government's IT Council and integrity spokesman, says that agreeing to facebook's T&C's amount to a ?slave contract.? He says ?People think it is free to join, but you pay with your personal integrity and your future...

Odds & Sods

Posted on October 23, 2007
Helen Rose of Bristows looks at the recent flurry of negative publicity when Facebook announced that details of its users would appear in publicly available search results, leading to allegations that Facebook was sacrificing users? privacy in an attempt to drive more users to the site via search engines...

Latest News Round-up Type Stuff

Posted on October 23, 2007
This is a round up of a few more things that have gone on whilst I was holiday:A coalition of media and internet companies - CBS Corp, Dailymotion, Fox Entertainment Group, Microsoft Corp, MySpace, NBC Universal, Veoh Networks, Viacom and the Walt Disney Co - have issued and signed up to standards governing user-generated content...

ITV and GMTV - Was it fraud???

Posted on October 23, 2007
Whilst I was away Deliotte finished their investigation of the use of premium rate interactive services ("PRS") in programming on all ITV channels. Before its release Michael Grade had spoken of a Zero Tolerance approach the channel would take. On its release, Grade told us, had he been in charge whilst all this was going on that he'd have resigned...

Booker Wrong Again

Posted on October 22, 2007
Well, I'm back, and getting up to date with things that happened whilst I was on Holiday - such as the Booker Prize result. You will know dear reader, that I try (and fail usually) to read the shortlist before the prize is announced. This year I only made it through three and a half by judgment day: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan ; Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones; The Gathering by Anne Enright; and Darkmans by Nicola Barker (the half, 400 pages down and about the same to go ...

Overlord has left the building

Posted on October 10, 2007
I'm off on holiday tomorrow, so the blog will be quiet until 21st October. Don't miss me too much.To celebrate the fact that I am off to Italy, here's an urm, French legal Information Blog - Un blog pour l'information juridique [Thanks Joe/Frederic]

Re Meme Bur Me

Posted on October 10, 2007
I have ummed and arhed this week over whether to add to the latest 'meme' started by Blawg Review calling on bloggers to name their favourite 'current 10 best law blogs?. Now as both Binary Law and Lo-Fi Librarian were kind enough to include me in their lists, I have decided to bit the bullet and list my 10, although Lo-Fi's is quite close to what my first blind run at this would have looked like (minus me obviously - not even my ego is that large) so you can take it as read that those 9 are all worth your time, if they are not already part of your regular reading regime...

Jaiku Googled

Posted on October 10, 2007
I got an email this morning from Jaiku telling me that they were now part of the Google family. Must admit, as when Google nabbed Jotspot, this caught me a bit by surprise. I actually really like Jaiku although as I have had a hard time getting people off Twitter, I only really tend to post directly to it when Twitter is down - although it is set up to pick up feeds from my blogs and Twitter when I am not posting, so my Jaiku feed isn't a bad way to follow me...

Enterprise 2.0 thoughts

Posted on October 09, 2007
Oliver at Headshift has an excellent post entitled 'Behind "Enterprise 2.0" Performance: Exploitation or Exploration?'Two particular comments stood out for me."IT people still put communication processes on the backburner and favour operational processes...

Media, Media, Media

Posted on October 09, 2007
A number of media related stories/events have happened during the past week that I feel could do with short mentions from me, so excuse this collection of rambles.The BBC published a report last week, by Will Wyatt CBE from his into the publication by the BBC of misleading footage relating to the Queen during a press launch for the BBC One Autumn season - which seemed to imply that the Queen had had a strop and stormed off from a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz...

Lawyer website revamp mess

Posted on October 04, 2007
I realised this afternoon that I hadn't mentioned the revamp of the Lawyer website. I hate it. It is far too busy and cluttered and they have also opted for a small font size to exacerbate matters. The content itself is still perfectly fine, but the look and feel is just nasty...