May 2010

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Fuck reliability. Screw authentication.

May 31, 2010

By Jason Wilson I’ve written about this before, but Jacob Sayward’s recent article for AALL—iCite: Legal Research? There’s an app for that.—has me all kinds of pissed off. Not because he’s wrong or has misrepresented anything about the products he reviewed, but because his article is representative of reviewers of legal research products generally, and [...]

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What are you waiting for?

May 31, 2010

By Jason Wilson The 37signals weblog had a good quote from Paul Bucheit’s post on “What to do with your millions,” an expanded version of which I quote below: Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do if they didn’t need to work. In reality, if they had [...]

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On delinkification.

May 31, 2010

By Jason Wilson I’ve been thinking about this for some time, and was finally pushed off the fence today by Nicholas Carr’s post “Experiments in delinkification.” Links are wonderful conveniences, as we all know (from clicking on them compulsively day in and day out). But they’re also distractions. Sometimes, they’re big distractions – we click [...]

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The changing face of content creation.

May 26, 2010

By Jason Wilson Over the last couple of weeks, particularly the last two days, some interesting news has been released that is making me question how we might one day create analytical materials for the law. First, 48 Hour Magazine was launched and managed to obtain, curate, edit, layout, and publish content for an entire [...]

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Two Sisters

May 26, 2010

By Jason Wilson Author’s Note: For whatever reason, the scene that follows kept running through my head as I was working on a piece concerning computational thinking. I’m still puzzled as to why since it is hard for me to see the value in anthropomorphizing products. But, maybe there is something to imagining what your [...]

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In the future, will all meta be discoverable?

May 21, 2010

By Jason Wilson At the Office 2010 Launch, John Weston unveiled this video from Microsoft’s Office Labs dubbed “Productivity Future Vision.” Weston stated that all of the devices in the video are “working prototypes” that should come to market in 5-7 years, and the only thing in it that wasn’t realistic was the amount of [...]

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The legal web and the “c” word.

May 21, 2010

By Jason Wilson Last year Greg Lambert over at Three Geeks wrote a post about Twittertim.es, and it wasn’t until he and Steve Matthews over at Stem Legal had a recent and brief Twitter (appropriately) exchange about the the best Twitter “newspaper” service, namely Twittertim.es or Paper.li that I actually checked into it. {BTW, my [...]

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How would you like me to write that … Dave?

May 18, 2010

By Jason Wilson Thanks to Mike Shatzkin, I started thinking about January 2011. It’s like reading those fools over at Publishr, who have this annoying habit of making you think about what will be, rather than what is now. I hate it, but you know, secretly love it. Seriously, do you know anyone in the [...]

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