Fergal in the Irish Times
Fergal's post on Libel on the Internet (printed here first scoop-hunters. ) is now an article in today's Irish Times. Page six in the Business section, for those with ready access to it.
A Simple Idea
I found this odd, but somehow endearing portion of the Dublin. ie website called the Virtual Institute of Simplicity. I took the chance to post them my simple idea- that there should be a number you could text to let Dublin Bus that someone is smoking on your bus.
A sunny day,
Just back from a stroll in the sun to Mount St Crescent.
A Boldface Name Invites Others to Blog With Her
A Boldface Name Invites Others to Blog With Her: "Mr Lerer and Ms Huffington will manage the Post, with Mr Lerer overseeing a staff of half a dozen people in a loft in lower Manhattan. Ms Huffington and Mr Breitbart are based in Los Angeles.
But will there be sticky buns?
Bewleys announced today that they will be reopening their Grafton Street premises in May. It will be managed by the men behind Café Bar Deli, Odessa, Eden and the Market Bar which means the food will be decent at last. It will have four separate areas including a café and patisserie on the ground floor, a fish restaurant and a restaurant serving Mediterranean type food.
Shoes, glorious shoes
We all have dreams. World peace, winning the lotto, taking a round the world trip, having the power of invisibility, you know the kind of thing. I would like those things too but my current passion is to own a pair of Manolo Blahnik shoes.
Latte Drinkers and Racial Demagogues
Interesting piece here in the always excellent New York Review about class in American politics. Sarah Byam had a good piece here on Tuppenceworth a few years ago about how the right deny that class exists whenever there's any debate about economic priorities. To do otherwise would give the lie to the official line that there's no such thing as class.
Short Cuts
Phew. After all that, I think I'd like to point out, briefly, that today I saw a cat.
The Information Age has truly arrived…
This piece is thematically linked to Fergal Crehan's excellent treatise on on-line libel. In it I hope to map out how the Information Age is truly upon us and the days of 'it will be alright on the night' management of websites or other information are long behind us. A barrister talks openly about 'cornering the market in IT Law'.
Libel Liability
By way of inaugurating my participation in this blog, I'm posting the below article on the subject of defamation and the internet. It's part of my plan to corner the market in IT Law. A piece on Bittorrent will follow in the next week or so.
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