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“The only thing that grows in your hand is a dick.”

March 7, 2013

The title is a euphemism that is new to me, courtesy of a dear friend of mine. I would have thought after 43 years I had heard just about every colorful metaphor, but as it turns out I haven’t. The point of mentioning it didn’t become relevant until this morning after I read Jean O’Grady’s [...]

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And It Begins…

January 28, 2013

The rebranding is underway. Say goodbye to Westlaw and hello to Legal Solutions?   [Image (CC) by Cayusa]

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Legal publishing is dead! Long live software solutions!

January 21, 2013

This was the proclamation from the Thomson Reuters’s bloggers summit last week, or at least the way I heard it. Others might disagree, however. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I’ve gathered all of the comments on the matter from my fellow attendees for your easy digestion. The bolded terms are my random emphases. From Bob [...]

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So, the future is understanding content, not content itself?

October 1, 2012

I have a lot of thoughts about this, but I’ll just give you this quote uncontextualized. From David Worlock’s Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?: Once upon a time content in this industry was the reworked press releases that kept the advertising apart on the printed page. It was never valuable and it isn’t now. [...]

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Content marketing will kill the law.

April 19, 2011

By Jason Wilson A lawyer recently asked me about my thoughts on the current state of analytical content in the U.S.  I asked him to imagine an 18-hole golf course, to picture manicured fairways and greens, cleanly raked traps, and smartly planned course deviations and elevations. An intelligently laid out course, Holes 1 through 18 [...]

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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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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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