Editorial
The Internet Newsletter for Lawyers in 2021
Big changes here at infolaw Towers! The Internet Newsletter for Lawyers is now an online-only publication. The Newsletter has been published bi-monthly in print and pdf since the late 90s and online on the infolaw website since 2007. But the time has come for us to concentrate our efforts on our online services. We have […]
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A farewell from Delia Venables
I have lived with the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers for 20 years. I started it as an adjunct to the Venables website www.venables.co.uk but it soon developed a life of its own. It was of course only provided in printed form originally. I remember how it had to be written, printed, collated, packed up and […]
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The Newsletter way back
A snapshot of the type of content provided by the Newsletter in its early days is reproduced below from an old page on Delia’s site, retrieved courtesy of the Internet Archive’s WayBack Machine. It is notable that the range of topics covered is similar to today’s mix. The main difference is that the internet was […]
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Introducing Law 2.0
The internet is changing from a one-to-many broadcasting medium to a many-to-many communications system. It is becoming a shared resource where anyone can put forward their ideas, amend or correct the ideas of others, talk to their friends, locate long lost friends or find new ones, create and load up pictures or video clips or […]
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Welcome to the new-style Newsletter
I am delighted to have been invited on board by Delia as joint editor and publisher of the Newsletter. Delia and I have collaborated for many years, since we both launched our websites in early 1995. Together we wrote and edited the book Researching the Legal Web (Butterworths 1997 and 2nd edn 1999) and in […]
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