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Entrepreneurship: some important observations

April 15, 2011

By Jason Wilson My good friend, Ed Schipul, is a local businessman here in Houston. He owns and runs a fantastic web marketing business called Schipul.com. The guy is a prolific (and I mean pro-lif-ic) photographer and an all-around interesting cat. From his post today, titled “on suicide and entrepreneurship,” came this uplifting (right?) message: [...]

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More content, stat!

April 14, 2011

By Jason Wilson From Bill Pollak, CEO of ALM, today comes this publishing call to arms for his company: We need more content. I have been feeling and saying this for awhile but now, backed by our new strategic partnership with LexisNexis, I can say it more definitively. We need more content to meet the [...]

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How legal citators could suck less.

April 12, 2011

By Jason Wilson As legal researchers, we value citators. When I was in law school, you had to “Shepardize” your cases to determine whether the case was overruled, followed, distinguished, criticized, etc. Many years later, we were introduced to “KeyCiting” cases, which everyone understood to be pretty much the same thing. Now you can use [...]

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To remix or not to remix?

April 12, 2011

By Jason Wilson My latest column, Remixing Legal Content: A Way Forward, is up on Slaw. Please go check it out and comment. [Image (CC) by lezarticho]

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More on sensor-based publishing: the future looks fun.

April 8, 2011

By Jason Wilson Via FastCompany’s Co.Design comes word of the world’s first location-aware music album. From the creator’s press release: Washington DC-based music duo Bluebrains’ latest release is not a standard album in the sense that it can be listened to passively in one sitting or, for that matter, at any location. Rather, it is [...]

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From shit to sugar: make Lisvendor.info a priority.

April 1, 2011

By Jason Wilson As a reminder, Sarah Glassmeyer has created a wiki “where librarians and other interested parties can share information about all aspects of the library/vendor relationship.” I’ve been told (not from Sarah) that many librarians are actually afraid of participating in the wiki for fear of unknown repercussions. I don’t know if that’s [...]

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More on declining publishing standards: academic publishers

April 1, 2011

By Jason Wilson From Marie Newman at Out of the Jungle comes another good post on the sorry state of affairs in publishing, this time academic. [Bryn Geffert, the librarian at Amherst College,] concludes that a number of publishers are “charging outrageous prices for embarrassingly bad books, knowing that enough individuals and institutions will snap them up.” [...]

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