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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...

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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 Fj�rm�lar��uneyti.is - fr�ttir http://www.fjarmalaraduneyti.is/view/common/content/rss?WebCategoryID=1228&total=6&charset=iso-8859-1&ShowCData=Yes Fj�rm�lar��uneyti...

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
Presid�ncia da Rep�blica Portuguesa [Website] Feeds Nota informativa http://www.presidencia.pt/?action=13 Mininistry of Foreign Affairs / Minist�rio dos Neg�cios Estrangeiros [Website] Feeds Noticias http://feeds.feedburner.com/MNEnoticias Ministry of Health / Minist�rio da Sa�de [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 [...

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