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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 [...

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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 [...

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