Legal Research

Exhibit A

Posted on January 22, 2007
A Court of Appeal judge has been arrested by transport police for flashing a female passenger on a train. Charon QC got the scoop as he reads the News of the World and this is like gold to the red tops. Interesting fact: 'a judge cannot be suspended, but there is a convention that they [...

Law Search Beta Again

Posted on January 22, 2007
Nearly Legal's Law Search beta is now available for you to host on your blogs and web pages. Code is available here and it will look like this ...

LLRX Articles

Posted on January 19, 2007
Some really good articles recently published on LLRX: Do you give good Google? 'LaJean Humphries identifies the wide range of social networking sites with which researchers should be knowledgeable, and addresses legal, privacy and ethical concerns associated with their use...

This Week's Useful Tools

Posted on January 19, 2007
Bookmarked this week: Badged.netallows you to add social network badges to your blog or web site, the pretty kind you see beneath posts. (Via Phil Bradley) Hey!Watchis an online video converter, you never know when you might need one of these. RSS to Web Page - davidrothman...

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Google Librarian Central Blog

Posted on January 17, 2007
Google's Librarian Newsletter has just announced the Librarian Central Blog. Promised content includes: 'the latest Google news, updates and tips relevant to the librarian community'. Readers are asked to consider the blog to be a beta test, and urged toprovide feedback...

Product Placement

Posted on January 17, 2007
'If all you knew about computers was what you saw in movies and television, you'd be convinced that Apple Macintosh held about 97 percent computer market share instead of less than 3 percent. Apple has achieved this visibility because of its aggressive product placement program with the entertainment industry'Robert Scobleand Shel Israel in Naked Conversations...

Unazukin

Posted on January 16, 2007
Reading a short article on obsessive behaviour and the internet, I came across an interesting web site. Alan Lubin is letting Unazukin make his decisions for him and blogging it. Unazukin is a cool Japanese doll, she is quite small and she reacts to your voice by nodding or shaking her head...

Firefox Extensions

Posted on January 16, 2007
The latest issue of .net magazine includes an article on the top 50 Firefox extensions. Lots to choose from, with a few silly ones thrown in for good measure (e.g. UK Threat Level, you can imagine). All can be found at: http://del.icio.us/netmag/firefox159

Happy Birthday Justice

Posted on January 16, 2007
Justice, the independent legal human rights organisation, will be celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Founded in 1957, it was set up to promote the rule of law and to assist the fair administration of justice. To celebrate they are planning 'an ambitious year-long programme of events and publications under the umbrella title of 'Defending [...

Wikiseek

Posted on January 16, 2007
Wikiseek has just been launched and is here to make your life that little bit easier.Wikiseek is a search engine which indexes Wikipedia entries and sites linked to from Wikipedia. It provides better results, a more comfortable results display and tag clouds...

Monkey Bites Tutorials

Posted on January 15, 2007
This week the Wired blog Monkey Bites will be themeing their'tutorial o' the day', givingRSS tips, tricks and hacks all week.Read the first of this week's posts here.

Read Blogs On Your DS/Wii/PSP

Posted on January 15, 2007
How exciting! If you are blogging using WordPress (like me) then there is a plugin available that will make your blog console friendly. David Harper has developed the WordPress Ultimate Gamer's Pack, which 'automatically renders an optimised version of your posts and pages when visitors come to your blog on a Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS-Lite, [...

Chambers Web Sites

Posted on January 15, 2007
Thanks to Delia Venables and her fab Internet Newsletter for Lawyers for highlighting some useful chambers web sites, packed with case summaries, articles and news. A selection of these were voted for by barristers, the top three are: One Crown Office Row's Human Rights Update- includes over 800 reports and commentaries, practical guidanceand articles...

Found Blog

Posted on January 14, 2007
I subscribe to a lot of feed and monitor a range of different blogs. I find many of them invaluable and I've started to wonder how I got by without this constant stream of useful and interesting posts. My aggreagtor is pretty full but I'm not feeling the effects of information overload just yet...

Lawyers Seek Help For Stress and Drink

Posted on January 13, 2007
The Law Society Gazette reports a 20% increase in 2006 of the number of lawyers who sought help regarding stress, depression and other problems. LawCare, a charity providing support and advice, received 424 calls in 2006, 67% of which related to stress or depression...

Be Prepared

Posted on January 13, 2007
Nice idea found via Scary Ideas

Stress Toy Abuse

Posted on January 13, 2007
Found via Library Stuff

Typographys In Fashion

Posted on January 12, 2007
Typography is cool, it's official. Veer.com are sellingt-shirtsetc. with a typographical twist. I particularly like the baseline one (above).Wear them and feel superior (in a geeky way) to people who don't know what an Emdash is. Also spotted - nudeytypographical ladies (below) asfeatured on Epica Europespremier creative awardsweb site...

This Week's Useful Tools

Posted on January 12, 2007
Added to my del.icio.us bookmarks recently: Edit Grid- Impressive online spreadsheets, with charts and permalinks! Even if you're settled with Google docstry this! I like it alot. Swivel preview- Create graphs online, this could be a little more user friendly but it does admit that'as a preview it's rough around the edges'...

Harry Potter and the Staggering Discounts

Posted on January 12, 2007
The Bookseller has surveyed independent bookshops and discovered that 25% would boycott themost recent offering fromJ.K. Rowling. Stocking Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows would not make indies anyprofit in the face of online, chain and supermarket discounts...

More Feed From Vancouver

Posted on January 11, 2007
Steve Matthews aka Vancouver Law Librarian has added a Linkblog to his site. Intended 'for tracking online 'stuff' I want to hold on to, but not necessarily comment on' you will find a mixture of posts and articles of interest.VLLB Linkblog has feed too...

Transformational Government Report

Posted on January 10, 2007
Today saw the publication of 'Transformational Government: enabled by technology', the annual report on transformational strategy. The report revealed a web site rationalisation policy that will see at least 551 government web sites closed down in favour of 'supersites' such as Directgov...

International Criminal Court

Posted on January 09, 2007
TheInternational CriminalCourt (ICC) is under pressure to cancel its first ever war crimestrialaccordingto an article in today's Guardian. The ICCissued an indictment against Joseph Kony, leader of the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army, and four of his commanders in 2005...

Robotic Librarians

Posted on January 09, 2007
Just read the latest Wired magazine and there is a fab piece in the news section on Chicago State University's new library, which boasts robotic librarian action! The library has an 'Automated Storage and Retrieval System called ROVER (Retrieval Online Via Electronic Robot)'...

Must Read Blogs 2007

Posted on January 09, 2007
LISNews is compiling a top ten of 'must read' library blogs for 2007 and would like to hear from you. 'What blogs do you read every day? What blogs help you learn? What blogs keep you informed? What blogs make you laugh? Who's the best writer out there?' To send your list fill out the [...

Stock Photography

Posted on January 09, 2007
I have come across a fair few sites offering databases of free stock photography, always useful for displays etc. I thought I'd post about these (mainly for my own benefit so I have all the links in one place): Openstockphotography - searchable database of free stock photos, with option to open image with SnipShot so you [...

Colour Schemes

Posted on January 09, 2007
There are quite afew tools available that let you mess around with colours and create your own schemes. At the moment I am using a bog standard blog template, but I have created a web site from scratch in the past and some of these would have been v. handy, if only for working outthe [...

Sex and Power

Posted on January 07, 2007
The Equal Opportunities Commission has published its 4th annual index of women's representation in Britain. According to the report women make up just 9.8% of the 'senior judiciary, high court judges and above'. It notes that 'at this pace it will take another 40 years to achieve an equal number of senior women in the [...

A Tiny Icon Factory

Posted on January 07, 2007
Make tiny icons at the tiny icon factory, more difficult than it seems (as illustrated).

This Week's Useful Tools

Posted on January 06, 2007
Bits and pieces bookmarked: 15 tips to choose a good text type from Typies: a blog of typography and graphic design davidrothman.net has created an online image editor comparison spreadsheet, so many of these around now that this is v. useful Top 100+ search engines posted on John Battelle's Searchblog Give away of the day - everyday they give [...

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