This week the Inforrm blog reached the important milestone of 3,000 posts. We have been posting since January 2010 so that is an average of something like 11 posts a week. Over that period we have had 2.8 million page views – an average of over 900 views for each post.
In addition, we have 4,187 follows – including 2,750 followers for our twitter feed, @inforrm. We reached 500 posts in February 2011, 1000 posts in Februrary 2012 and 2000 posts in November 2013.
The blog now has a large archive of legal and media material – which can be searched using the search box on the front page – or by the “Categories” or “Tags” on the bottom right. In addition, we have our Table of Media Law Cases – with links to cases and comments from cases from early 2010.
It is impossible to provide a representative selection of the 3,000 Inforrm posts but we will mention 10 posts which we think readers might like to read:
- “A right to be forgotten – or a right to delete?” Part 1 and Part 2 – Paul Bernal
- Is following people illegal? ‘News of the World’ investigation techniques and the civil law
- Was Leveson wrong to reject a statutory right of reply? – Mark Thomson
- Case Law: Cooper v Turrell – the assessment of damages for libel and misuse of private information – Hugh Tomlinson QC
- Hemming and Haigh: Freedom of Speech and Abuse of Privilege
- Opinion: “Role models and hypocrites” – Max Mosley
- “Harassment and the Media”: Mark Thomson and Nicola McCann
- Case Law: “Clift v Slough Borough Council – Qualified Privilege meets Article 8″ – Lorna Skinner and Edward Craven
- The Strange Decline of the English Defamation Trial
- How far do media laws constrain the television debates between party leaders? – Jacob Rowbottom
The 10 most popular Inforrm posts of all time are (in descending order of popularity)
- Harassment and injunctions: Cheryl Cole – Natalie Peck
- “The cases of Vanessa Perroncel and John Terry – a curious legal affair” – Dominic Crossley
- Case Law, Strasbourg: Von Hannover v Germany (No.2) – Unclear clarification and unappreciated margins – Kirsten Sjøvoll
- Social Media: How many people use Twitter and what do we think about it?
- Case Law: ETK v News Group Newspapers “Privacy Injunctions and Children” – Edward Craven
- Case Law: OPO v MLA, Shock and disbelief at the Court of Appeal – Dan Tench
- News: Tulisa “Sex Tape”, false privacy turns into true privacy
- La Regina Nuda and Italian Privacy Law – Athalie Matthews and Giacomo Parmigiani
- Case Law: Růžový Panter, OS v Czech Republic: Anti-Corruption NGO defamation case, no violation of Article 10
- Case Law: “Spiller v Joseph – the New Defence of Honest Comment” – Catherine Rhind
Congratulations on an invaluable blog.