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Exploded data, the legal web, and what we’re missing.

July 25, 2010

By Jason Wilson
In my recent interview with Peter Jackson, the chief scientist for Thomson Reuters, we had the following exchange:
JW: I was curious about the current state of the art in legal search. In 2007, you raised the issue that extraction technology required information to be explicitly stated in the text; it couldn’t be implied. You [...]

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Crowdsourcing analytical content.

July 15, 2010

By Jason Wilson
At AALL 2010 in Denver this week here is the gist of a conversation I witnessed (okay, maybe participated in as well):
Person 1: Do you really think we’ll be able to crowd source analytical content?
Person 2: Yes. I mean, not right now, obviously, but I do see it in the future.
Person 1: Really?
Person [...]

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Interview with Peter Jackson, Chief Scientist & Vice President of Technology at Thomson Reuters

June 24, 2010

By Jason Wilson
My interview with Peter Jackson is up on Slaw.ca here. Jackson offers up a number of insights into the history of WestSearch, aspects of state of the art in legal search, and his take on the Steve Jobs’ affect. It was a fun interview with a great guy, and I think you’ll enjoy [...]

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On progress: From Underwoods, to Selectrics, to desktop computers.

June 24, 2010

By Jason Wilson
This is a continuation on my series dedicated to bad ad copy I wrote back in the mid to late 90s. I hope you enjoy it.
Tap. Tap. Tap-tap. Tappety-tap.  Ding!
These are familiar sounds to those of us old enough to remember them.  Two fingers laboring away on a manual typewriter and the quick [...]

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On the importance of size, weight, and smell.

June 22, 2010

By Jason Wilson
For the rest of the week, I will be posting some ad copy I wrote back in the mid to late 90s after the J. Peterman episodes ran on Seinfeld. None of this ever made the light of day, but I hope it gives you some sense of how I feel about books [...]

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Toward mouselessness.

June 18, 2010

By Jason Wilson
For power users, the idea of going mouseless is nothing new. For consumers (READ: lawyers) though, it is a significant change. Most people haven’t and wouldn’t see the need in adopting the “no duh!” shortcuts of advanced computer users. Sure, sure, we will acknowledge that keyboard shortcuts are probably more efficient, but I [...]

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What sh*t can Sam Halpern teach us?

June 11, 2010

By Jason Wilson
Listen, I don’t want to stifle your creativity, but that thing you built there, it looks like a pile of shit.
From Sh*t My Dad Says, by Justin Halpern
I’ve been following Justin Halpern on Twitter for sometime, and I just read his book this past Saturday. As a child and as a father of [...]

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