Binary Law
Focuses on the blogger's interest in legal information and digital publishing, including how information is written, edited, managed and published.
Author: Nick Holmes, a publishing consultant in the UK, is managing director of infolaw, which offers a range of legal information products and services.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Internet Law • Legal Technology • International • Europe • Consultant
Recent Posts from Binary Law
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eLawtric Books anyone?
Jason Wilson explores the pros and cons of what he dubs “eLawtric Books“. In a series of posts he (for the most part) counters Eugene Volokh’s thoughts on the future of electronic books and the…
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Supreme Court judgments - where to read the full story
Thanks to Jennie Law for pointing out that the new UKSC needs to get its publishing act together. It’s been in existence for almost four weeks now and has the most advanced court technology in…
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A letter
Today I received a letter! Not a love letter*, nor a middle class thank you note, and not an impersonal business letter, but a thank you letter which sought to maintain and progress a business…
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Is the law a can of beans? (reprise)
Way back in 1999 I wrote a piece on the commoditisation of legal services which still resonates today. Some lawyers are still arguing that there are so many potential pitfalls in using commoditised online services…
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The end of BigLawyers - does the rest of society care?
Having just penned my previous post on BigLaw, I browsed the latest issue of Legal Information Management and was riveted not by my own article therein :=), nor by any of the many other worthy…
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Are we (still) in thrall to BigLaw?
Jordan Furlong bemoans (on Slaw and Law21) the fact that the legal media focus on BigLaw, because BigLaw makes a lot of money, so they’re attractive both as subscribers and as advertising targets. It’s not…
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Sidewiki - bad idea
Google Sidewiki has got many excited, not because it is neat or cool, but because it is a bad idea - something that feels instinctively wrong and that, after not much further thought, clearly is…
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Never mind the content … (2)
Paul Graham, an essayist and successful entrepreneur, pens a very interesting piece on Post-Medium Publishing which is worth reading in full (hat tip John Naughton). He opens: consumers never really were paying for content, and…
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Meta keywords are a waste of time
Google has finally officially confirmed what the SEO community has known for years: it “disregards keyword metatags completely. They simply don’t have any effect in our search ranking”. So, don’t waste any more time on…
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Social business design
“Social business design” is a term you’ve probably not encountered before. I was introduced to it last evening by social computing expert and entrepreneur Lee Bryant at Headshift where I attended an event to explore…