Holiday reading?
Probably not in there with your Dan Browns, but here’s a some webby books I’ve read recently or plan to (listed oldest first). You could do worse than feed your brain with one of them this Summer....
View ArticleNo IT please, we’re all on e
What is technology is as much defined by our attitude as by the innovations themselves. This is well illustrated by Douglas Adams, in a prescient and apparently famous article in the Sunday Times in...
View ArticleIT-itis
There I am banging on about losing the I from IT, when it seems IT is losing the plot altogether. LegalIT, from LegalWeek has disappeared; the nearest equivalent on the new LegalWeek site is the...
View ArticleWhat exactly is Web 2.0?
The expression “Web 2.0″ is much in vogue and I am as guilty as anyone in bandying the 2.0 tag about. But what’s it all about? One of the more helpful explanations of Web 2.0 I have come across is on...
View ArticleDoes IT matter?
Nicholas Carr’s article IT Doesn’t Matter, originally published in the Harvard Business Review in May 2003 and reproduced on his Rough Type blog, caused quite a stir. His argument, expanded in the 2004...
View ArticleDoes IT matter?
First published May 2007 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. “Does IT Matter?” is the title of a controversial 2003 article in the Harvard Business Review by technology writer Nicholas Carr and...
View ArticlePimp your own ride
Steve Matthews believes there will be a big increase soon in the use of blog software to build websites. Agreed. I’ve already said a lot about the benefits of blogging for networking and raising...
View ArticleThe Big Switch
More scary stuff. Just 100 years ago larger businesses generated their own electricity. The subsequent development of the electricity grid, delivering electricity as a commodity, profoundly changed...
View ArticleWill lawyers always be tech laggards?
Simon Fodden on Slaw writes that the 2008 ABA Legal Technology Survey reports that most attorneys stay current via websites and email newsletters; only a small minority reads blogs, and blogging is...
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The hype cycle
Image: neweurasia.net Apropos my social meeja blues I consulted the web. Turns out I can plot my disillusionment on Gartner’s hype cycle representing the maturity, adoption and social application of...
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This was the entire web 20 years ago
More about Info.cern.ch – the world’s first website.
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What do you want to do with technology?
Long ago, circa 1985, colleagues, friends and family used to think I was interested in technology because I used a PC in my work and they did not. I was not interested in technology. I was interested...
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Do lawyers need to be digitally competent?
Reblogged from Legal Web Watch November 2014. I ask this because I have been looking into the future for CPD in the two professions. Both are moving away from measuring CPD hours towards systems based...
View ArticleOnline legal services – size matters
Kieran Flatt, writing in Legal IT, believes that there are only five law firms in the UK that have demonstrated any serious long-term commitment to developing online businesses: Linklaters (Blue Flag)...
View ArticleNo, Stelios doesn’t own “orange”
Charles Christian of the Orange Rag (Legal Technology Insider) is blogging. Welcome to the blogosphere.
View ArticleHoliday reading?
Probably not in there with your Dan Browns, but here’s a some webby books I’ve read recently or plan to (listed oldest first). You could do worse than feed your brain with one of them this Summer....
View ArticleNo IT please, we’re all on e
What is technology is as much defined by our attitude as by the innovations themselves. This is well illustrated by Douglas Adams, in a prescient and apparently famous article in the Sunday Times in...
View ArticleIT-itis
There I am banging on about losing the I from IT, when it seems IT is losing the plot altogether. LegalIT, from LegalWeek has disappeared; the nearest equivalent on the new LegalWeek site is the...
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The need for technological competence
My latest post on Internet Newsletter for Lawyers: Across the pond, in 2012, the American Bar Association formally approved a change to their Model Rules of Professional Conduct to make clear that...
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What is a “legal engineer”?
This article first appeared in Legal Web Watch December 2017. An interesting post by Richard Tromans on Artificial Lawyer seeks to establish the origin of the term "legal engineer" to describe one who...
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