Comments on: Statute Law Database launched today http://heatherbrooke.org/2006/statute-law-database-launched/ Heather Brooke is an award-winning writer, journalist and activist Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:17:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rupert White http://heatherbrooke.org/2006/statute-law-database-launched/comment-page-1/#comment-1198 Rupert White Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:41:50 +0000 http://www.yrtk.org/2006/statute-law-database-launched/#comment-1198 Well, let's see how hard the govt markets and advertises this service to the common man, shall we? It appears that, so far, almost nothing has been done to promote this service to the public barring telling news services about it. In the nine months or so since we wrote about the alpha test of the SLD, I've seen nothing about it anywhere you'd think it might be useful ... after all, how many non-lawyers read my mag, and how many of the general Sun-reading public read YRTK? As the Arctic Monkeys might say, I don't know the numbers but I bet they ain't big. This is a great move, the SLD, but it's just a (relatively) inexpensive propaganda tool for the government (look at us, aren't we open?) if it doesn't actively promote it. Well, let’s see how hard the govt markets and advertises this service to the common man, shall we? It appears that, so far, almost nothing has been done to promote this service to the public barring telling news services about it. In the nine months or so since we wrote about the alpha test of the SLD, I’ve seen nothing about it anywhere you’d think it might be useful … after all, how many non-lawyers read my mag, and how many of the general Sun-reading public read YRTK? As the Arctic Monkeys might say, I don’t know the numbers but I bet they ain’t big.

This is a great move, the SLD, but it’s just a (relatively) inexpensive propaganda tool for the government (look at us, aren’t we open?) if it doesn’t actively promote it.

]]>