How will we read?

January 18, 2010

We are on the eve of Apple’s “Come See Our Latest Creation” event, and the only thing I am thinking about is whether the fabled New Device will be a significant advancement beyond my Old Device, thus rendering all previous devices completely undesirable and highly repellent. And from what I’ve read by Tim van Damme, [...]

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What will be our new metaphor?

January 15, 2010

John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has another excellent post, this time on the Apple Newton. In considering why the Newton failed, Gruber says this:
I think it’s OK for a 1.0 product to be ahead of its time, to be too ambitious. The trick is not to be too far ahead, and more importantly, for the [...]

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Project Cobalt: a few more predictions.

January 14, 2010

I’d like to offer a few more predictions about Thomson Reuters Legal’s (TRL) latest version of Westlaw, known now only as Project Cobalt:

Default search will not require Boolean connectors, however, the user will be able to switch to Boolean. I wouldn’t be surprised to see users run the same search with and without connectors just [...]

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Legal publishers are made of people!

January 13, 2010

Three recent posts by Kevin Hunt over at Thomson Reuters Legal Current blog caught my attention this week because they reminded me about a video TR did about a year ago on the day in the life of a case. That video was sort of the first glimpse (for those of you who have [...]

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Westlaw 2.0: Project Cobalt

January 6, 2010

This year, Thomson Reuters Westlaw (which we’ll just refer to as Thomson Reuters Legal because, after all, that is what it will probably be rebranded as, with Tax & Accounting and Markets being the other brands) is poised to release a new version of Westlaw dubbed “Cobalt.” If you know what WALT means, then you’re [...]

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Volokh on eLawtric Books: Post Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9

January 5, 2010

By some strange coincidence, I decided to wrap up my take on Eugene Volokh’s series “The Future of Books Related to the Law” on the eve of CES 2010 (http://www.cesweb.org/default.asp), a portentous event for those of us following the development of eReaders and slate computing technology. Knowing that Professor Volokh’s series was written in part [...]

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Goodbye old friend.

January 2, 2010

Today we had to say goodbye to a dear friend, Daisy. My son, when we first brought Daisy into our family, wanted to name her Reticulated Dinosaur. An odd name for a 4-year old to bestow on a hapless puppy. We opted instead for Daisy. Through these many years, she was as a good a [...]

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