Legal Research

A Twitter Dissertation (exceeds 140 characters)

Posted on April 21, 2008
Twitter: Expressions of the Whole Self - An investigation into user appropriation of a web-based communications platform, MSc Dissertation Edward Mischaud (LSEs Department of Media and Communications). This paper's overarching objective is to critically assess this communications phenomenon, as Twitter affords a unique opportunity to analyse the manner in which [...

LexisNexis Butterworths Revamp

Posted on April 21, 2008
Enhancements to LNB are due to take effect in Spring 2008 (is it Spring yet? B-r-r-r!) They are said to include: New cleaner, simpler homepages for legal and tax users A new dedicated URL for tax users Favourite sources easily accessed from your Start Page Easier access to key legislation and cases Popular features such as Related Content links made [...

Insitelaw

Posted on April 20, 2008
Charon QC, aka Mike Semple Piggot, has a new venture: Insitelaw newswire focusing on legal news and law blogs. The site features editorials, Charons famous podcasts, the daily 4 minute news podcasts and lots of links to legal news stories and law reports...

Britannica Widgets

Posted on April 20, 2008
The Encyclopaedia Britannica has launched Britannica widgets, but dont get too excited. There are a limited number of topic gadgets available and they dont offer much beyond showcasing a selection of related articles. Possibly useful if you happen to have a website/blog directly related to one of the listed topics...

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This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on April 20, 2008
PDFLab - freeware for creating and editing PDFs (Mac). Super Screenshot - enter the URL of a site and Super Screenshot will grab a capture for you. You can specify whether you want the full page (v. useful feature) or just the top of the screen, you can also select the size you want and opt [...

Twitter Apps

Posted on April 12, 2008
Since my last post I have stumbled across bunches more Twitter apps. Updating the original post was proving to be fiddly and the list was getting a bit messy, so I have decided to put them all in to a Twitter apps blog. I have been updating the blog as I find new ones (theres [...

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on April 12, 2008
Magnoto - make your own virtual fridge door, add photos, feeds and notes. Quirky. lino - online stickies. Add a variety of stickies (notes, photos, video) to a virtual pinboard and share. Yawas - Firefox extension, highlight or clip the web and add it to your Google Bookmarks...

Vote OUT-LAW

Posted on April 09, 2008
OUT-LAW.com has become the first ever non-US law firm website to be nominated for a Webby! Go vote now! Bookmark to:

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on April 06, 2008
NSFW - make URLs tiny and warn people that content is probably not safe for work. Free Icons Download - very sweet collections, including A Team icons! RSS Tickr - create buttons and tickers for your feeds. VidyUp - embed a widget on your blog/site that lets users share videos with you...

Do More With A USB Pen

Posted on April 05, 2008
Dont just carry your documents around with you, carry all your favourite programs toos. Below is a selection of links to some great portable apps: Tiny USB Office - under 2.5MB (Windows). Features include: text editing and word processing, spreadsheets, PDF creation, MSN Messenger, and an email client...

A Call To Arms

Posted on April 05, 2008
Connie Crosbys most recent Tao of Law Librarianship column in LLRX addresses a number of issues: how a possible decline in the importance of the librarys physical collection can lead to libraries and librarians being seen as superfluous; how librarians must make a concerted effort to actively respond to this sentiment, by contributing positive voices [...

Digital Archives and Libel

Posted on April 04, 2008
This months CILIP Update has an interesting article on the Guardians digital archive. Katy Heslop, Librarian in the Guardian Research Department, talks about the Quality Assurance testing undertaken: & the library's task was to track down articles involved in libel cases, particularly where the claimant had been successful...

Feedity

Posted on April 04, 2008
Dominic Jaar has created a screencast on using Feedity to subscribe to RSS for CanLII searches. Nice mini tutorial. Thanks to Slaw for the tip. Bookmark to:

Twitter Apps Update - 19 More

Posted on April 03, 2008
I can forsee this getting a little tiresome for everyone, but while I have the energy and since they seem to be seeking me out, heres 19 more. Again, I have updated my original post - 58 Twitter Apps (and then some) - we are now up to 92. Twitter Census - surveys for the Twitterspere...

BAILII Podcast

Posted on April 02, 2008
OUT-LAW radio has a very informative interview with Joe Ury of BAILII - Has the internet failed on the law? There is also an accompanying article on BAILIIs new project: to publish the UKs 3000 most important legal decisions by June 2008. I overlooked this really rather good podcast (the moral of the story is always [...

UK Library Blogs Wiki

Posted on April 01, 2008
Jennie Law has undertake a major piece of work compiling a list of UK library blogs. Prior to this there was no single list available (and we library folk do love lists!). Jennie has now turned the list in to a wiki (UK Library Blogs) using the new and rather dashing PB Wiki 2...

Twitter Apps Update - 15 more

Posted on April 01, 2008
More Twitter apps found thanks Library Clips, comments left on this blog, and from Twitter itself. Ive updated my original 58 Twitter Apps post to keep them all together. Keep the suggestions coming! Tweet Clouds - create Tweet/tag clouds from your Twitter stream...

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on March 30, 2008
Picbite - very simple way to add speech bubbles/comments to your photos. Simplebucket - photo hosting, lets you add notes to photos like Flickr. Photie - more photo hosting, no file size restrictions and unlimited storage. File Dropper - upload and share files, 5GB limit...

Web 2.0 Presentations

Posted on March 29, 2008
Below are links to some interesting presentations on Web 2.0. Enjoy. Finding the Time for Web 2.0 by Anne Welsh of First Person Narrative. Organise yourself! An introduction to web tools by Joeyanne of Joeyanne Libraryanne. Why Web 2.0? Challenges and opportunities for the legal sector by James Mullen of the Running Librarian...

Gratuitous De Lacy-Brown Post

Posted on March 28, 2008
Securing a pupillage is harder than getting on the Apprentice. Who knew? Bookmark to:

Mix Tapes

Posted on March 28, 2008
Mixwit is a fab way to create online mix tapes. It uses Seeqpod and Skreemr to search for tracks and you can customise how it looks in all sorts of ways. Having dispensed with the tape it has never been easier to inflict your musical tastes on others...

58 Twitter Apps

Posted on March 27, 2008
Below is a collection of Twitter apps that I have bookmarked, posted about or Tweeted. I thought it might be useful to have them all in one place. This is in no way comprehensive and as such I am sure that I have missed out some of your favourites. Search Twitter Tweetscan - search Tweets from anyone [...

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on March 16, 2008
EatLime - file sharing, available to download as soon as you start uploading. 1GB free. Podmailing - share files, uploaded files available for 30 days and no registration required. Lots of video tutorials available and MakeUseOf.com has a nice how to...

Mofuse

Posted on March 10, 2008
If youve not already acquainted yourself with Mofuse then now is the time. Mofuse helps you get your blog or website mobile ready and its recently added a whole bunch of cool new features. Once youve signed up for a free account (a paid for service is available, but the free does just fine) you [...

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on March 08, 2008
5 Amazing Mac Apps for Getting Things Done - from Zenhabits. Google Calendar Sync - sync your Google calendar with Outlook. Luminotes - personal wiki notebook. 30MB free, unlimited notebooks, but if you want to collaborate you will need to upgrade. YourLi...

Happy Birthday To Me!

Posted on March 05, 2008
Wow, Ive been blogging for 2 years now. When I started I was a bit wary, I wasnt really sure Id find anything to blog about or have the energy to keep with it. Its been a lot of fun so far and its been a great way to keep myself up to date. [...]

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on March 01, 2008
Simpl.es - shorten URLs. WiseMapping - very easy to use mindmapping app. ScrapBook - Firefox add-on that lets you bookmark and save parts of web pages. Snaptweet - post your latest Flickr pics to Twitter. del.ishli.st - create wishlists from your del...

7 Tasks

Posted on February 27, 2008
7 Tasks is a really simple and really nice way of creating to do lists on the fly. Obviously you will need to log-in, but after that there isnt all that much to it. You can create multiple lists and attach tasks, mark tasks as complete and review whats still pending...

BAILII Books

Posted on February 25, 2008
BAILII have started adding books to their database: Most publishers have no commercial interest in books after the print run has finished and they are happy to reassign copyright to the author, if copyright was assigned to them. BAILII will consider publishing these texts but will only republish a text if there are no copyright limitations...

Legal Information Insitutes on GlobaLex

Posted on February 23, 2008
A useful an interesting guide to the Legal Information Institutes and the Free Access to Law Movement has just been added to GlobaLex. The article details the development of the LIIs and gives a description of each as well as lots of links to related reading...

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