Slaw.ca
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Slaw
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About Slaw
Slaw is a co-operative weblog about Canadian legal research and the impact of technology on it. We hope that our audience will include practicing lawyers, legal librarians, legal academics and students — anyone, in short, who uses IT in researching the law. The aim is to share information, offer advice and instruction, and occasionally provoke.
Slaw operates with a core of regular contributors and a penumbra of occasional contributors. It is open to anyone who is knowlegeable and interested to apply to join Slaw in either of these capacities. Because information technology dissolves boundaries, you don't have to be a Canadian to join and talk abut IT and legal research. But because there are already good research weblogs dealing with these matters in other countries, we invite posts that either are of special interest to Canadians or are general enough to pertain to doing research in Canada.
Why "Slaw"? First of all because law.ca was already taken. But also because when I first conceived of the idea many years ago the hot e-zines all seemed to start with 's' — e.g. Salon, Slate… Then there's the notion that a co-operative weblog with many contributors is bound to consist of a great many (nutritious) small pieces in rather a jumble. Finally, there's something quintessentially Canadian about a salad metaphor… Besides: "It's Slaw." That's why.
