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iOS4, folders & the race for an eBook app.

June 11, 2010

By Jason Wilson
With the release of iOS4 on the horizon for both the iPhone, and then this Fall, the iTouch and iPad, users will be able to create folders of related content, say for “law.” By dragging one app on top of another, you can create a single folder containing them both and any others [...]

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The fate of nontextual elements in case law.

June 4, 2010

By Jason Wilson
I read with great interest this week Daniel Poulin’s post on Slaw discussing “Illustrated Judgments.”
This column is about … the growing presence of non-textual elements in the judicial discourse. Reference to video and eventually inclusion of videos in judgments are certainly the more spectacular innovations, however, inclusion of images or graphical elements in [...]

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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 their [...]

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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 the drive [...]

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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 on a [...]

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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 magazine in [...]

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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 product, [...]

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