If you can tolerate yet another Simon (and who couldn’t, I ask?) take a look at Simon Archer’s blog at simonarcher.ca. It’s not strictly a blawg, but Simon has a lot on the site of interest to lawyers. There’s a “law” category of posts; and a whole lot of interesting pages under the headings of “projects” (e.g. a regional network of labour lawyers, involving North and South America) and “research” (patterns of corporate finance). . . . [more]

Vancouver Community College and the Law Foundation of BC have produced a multilingual legal glossary. It is:

an attempt to respond to an issue identified by the Law Courts Education Society of B.C. (LCES) and the Vancouver Community College Certificate Program in Court Interpreting (VCC) – that of a lack of consistency in the comprehension and use of legal terminology among unaccredited court interpreters working in the courts of British Columbia. This issue is particularly significant in areas outside the Lower Mainland, where accredited interpreters are virtually non-existent.

I imagine this will be of interest to a wider audience, . . . [more]

The Globe and Mail has been running a series of articles by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, co-authors of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, a book being published this week.

Here are the parts in the series:

• Peer Pioneers – A new world: Get your mass collaboration road map set (December 26, 2006)
• Ideagoras – Web’s greatest asset: A new marketplace for ideas (December 27, 2006)
• Prosumers – ‘Second Life’ is a signpost for the future: Fabricated online environment an exciting, long-term engine of change, innovation (December 28, 2006)
• The New Alexandrians – Lessons learned from the

The McGill Institute for the Study of Canada is hosting a conference from February 14 to 16 entitled The Charter @ 25.

“Our goal is to assemble a broad cross-section of people who can offer unique insights into the changes that have been effected by the Charter and offer a glimpse into the future. The Institute’s approach is unique such that the conference is not designed as a mere celebration of the anniversary of the Charter but rather as a ‘cerebration’, a reflection on the past, an analysis of the present and an anticipation of future developments.”

Further details: . . . [more]

I stumbled on an interesting set of interviews with Jimmy Wales in Wired and Searchengineland, about an experiment to apply the Web 2.0 spirit of collaboration to the building of the platform to develop a new open source search engine with user-editable search resultsIt seems as if the project went public after a premature story in The Times.. Here it is – in its own words:

Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken.

Why is it broken? It is broken for the same reason that proprietary software is