Last weekend’s Sunday Times carried a full page article on Twitter entitled ‘What makes Twitter worth a billion dollars?‘ Readers of this blog (though apparently not my nearest and dearest, friends and neighbours) will know that Twitter is a free online service which enables users to send and read messages of no longer than 140… Read More: Twitter – boom or bust? »
The stock market and some of the respected commentators think the recession is over. Others, including the Bank of England, are not so sure. You could be forgiven for being confused!! Recession means different things to different people and businesses are affected in different ways. Interest rates are at an historic low and may remain… Read More: No return to the status quo ante? »
On reading Chris Dale’s recent post (Who needs a bridge when the river goes away? Sept 17th ) and marvelling at its wonderful pictures of the splendid arches standing serenely redundant in a field while the river flows elsewhere, I was reminded of one of my favourite sonnets, Ozymandias by Shelley. You all know the… Read More: Going the way of Ozymandias »
As the English cricket season draws to a disappointing close, with the Aussies hammering England in the One Day Internationals and taking some (but certainly not all) of the gloss off winning the Ashes, I found I had nothing better to do but to turn my mind to the CPR! (For the non lawyers among… Read More: 50 not out!! »
Asked in the 1970s what he thought about the effects of the French Revolution, Chinese Premier at the time Zhou Enlai famously replied, “It is too early to say”. Currently there are a large number of reports from a variety of sources that the end of the recession is here and that the good times… Read More: Too early to say »
By way of a postscript to the preceding post ‘Too early to say‘, I have noticed at least one upturn in activity. The market for Third Party Litigation Funding is increasingly in the news, whether because of cases like Stone & Rolls v Moore Stephens in the House of Lords in July or probably because there… Read More: Third party funding and the credit crunch »
As autumn approaches and the dawn chorus starts at a time more closely associated with my normal waking up time, I am still waiting to hear of litigation involving a tweet. Tweets may seem inconsequential but they could easily be disclosable. The scenario is obvious. A is involved in a deal with B and as… Read More: A twitter autumn on its way »
In his article for The Harvard Business Review Death by Information Overload Paul Hemp cites research that reveals not only how our personal wellbeing but also our productivity can be affected by the ever increasing volume of information available to us. Hemp claims that the sheer volume of information to be assimilated threatens our decision making and… Read More: Opus Interruptus »
Last weekend’s Sunday Times Business section carried an article by Danny Fortson and Kate Walsh about the advisers working on the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The pictures at the top of the article showing a grim faced Dick Fuld, former Chief Executive, and one of the workers who lost her job that fateful day almost one… Read More: A drop in the ocean? »
Visiting Peterborough last week to talk to a group of lawyers about Smart e-Discovery, I found myself walking past the magnificent ancient cathedral in the centre of this otherwise (some would say) unexceptional modern town. With an hour to kill before the presentation, I wandered into the cathedral .. [and those of you who don’t… Read More: At large in Peterborough »