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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...

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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...

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