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This is me. I will be at Legal Tech.

January 27, 2011

By Jason Wilson Yes. It’s true. I will be at Legal Tech New York next week, roaming the halls in search of vendors with hardware and software services that all the cool kids are using these days. Along with Jason Eiseman, I’ll also be looking for an ice throne. Oh, and I’m attending a number [...]

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Exactly what do you mean by “curating”?

January 5, 2011

By Jason Wilson I find people who aren’t in the business of creating original practice-oriented content have some funny prognostications about what the future of the legal publishing (read: creating, broadcasting, and syndicating) business holds. Take, for example, Kevin O’Keefe’s recent post brazenly titled “Legal content on iPad and tablets: What’s the business model for [...]

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New on Slaw.ca: Metadata revisited

December 15, 2010

By Jason Wilson My latest post, Metadata Revisited, is up on Slaw.ca, and you can check it out here. Later this month, I’ll have more to say about this subject as it relates to Web 3.0 and the rise of the multi-directional knowledge (authority) network. [Image (CC) by Jonathan O'Donnell]

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From “lean forward” to “in your face”: when data finds you.

December 10, 2010

By Jason Wilson Over at Scholarly Kitchen today, Joe Esposito has a terrific post on “sensor publishing“, or how publishers might utilize the data created by our cell phones as we move about the planet. Sensor publishing is the opposite of face-down publishing. Face-down publishing has at its center the interface between a human and [...]

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Law Librarian Conversations: The Future of Interface Design

December 8, 2010

By Jason Wilson This Friday, I’ll be on Law Librarian Conversations with Ed Walters (CEO, Fastcase) and Tom Boone (Reference Librarian, Loyola Law School) sharing my thoughts on the future of interface design in legal research. In advance of the program, I wanted to post a few notes and links that may find their way [...]

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Le Mot Juste: Poetry & Legal Writing

November 30, 2010

By Jason Wilson A brief should rarely, if ever, be a poem. Smith, The Poetry of Persuasion: Early Literary Theory and Its Advice to Legal Writers, 6 Journal of the Association of  Legal Writing Directors 55 (2009). As writers, lawyers should be concerned, at all times, with the search for the right words and to [...]

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Typography for Lawyers: some initial reviews

November 22, 2010

By Jason Wilson Although I have been completely overwhelmed with our forthcoming title {WARNING: shameless plug ahead}, O’Connor’s California Civil Pretrial Handbook, I wanted to take a moment and mention some fine people who have taken some of their time to mention our latest title, Typography for Lawyers. Mark Bennett‘s Defending People post Book Review: Typography [...]

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