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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 leg [...]

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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 personal [...]

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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 legal [...]

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A new name

May 16, 2010

I’ve renamed my blog rethinc.k and am in the process of changing the meta. The title change was important for me because I wanted visitors to focus less on the oddness of my name (yes, it rhymes) and more on the idea that we should be talking about what the industry is doing, why it [...]

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Content, Containers, and Change

May 16, 2010

I have started writing a column on legal publishing for slaw.ca. I am but one of eight who will be contributing columns to the subject. I am thrilled to be a part of it and relieved that someone—specifically, Simon Fodden—recognized that our industry was poorly represented in the blawgosphere. Outside of the law librarian community, [...]

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“I’m sorry, the Internet is full.”

May 13, 2010

When I woke up this morning and checked my RSS feed, I tried to imagine what it would be like to find this message on my screen:
I’m sorry, but the Internet is currently full. Please delete content to make room.
It was funny to me for about a second, and then I just carried on living [...]

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Dear Technology, Please stop murdering everything.

May 11, 2010

DEATH. It is the subject de jour among the techno intelligentsia and literati. In fact, you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting someone pontificating on it. And by death, of course, I’m thinking of things, like compact disks, personal computers, the mouse, print media, and the like. Places are dying too, such as libraries [...]

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