There are a series of articles in Slate lately on how computers, or, more generally, technology, will changes professions by automating the more mundane tasks and possibly the more complex ones as well. Today’s entry takes a look at the…
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What Will Your Firm Stop Buying In Five Years? How About Vendor Content Tied to Their Search Engines
08
Sep
That’s the question asked and answered in another installment of 3 Geek’s Elephant Posts series. While all answeres were interesting, the response that got me thinking about the future was by Mark Gediman: Q. What will your firm stop buying…
Contemplating “RIP AALL” Ahead of Boston 2012: Muster of the Minutemen (and Minutewomen)
31
Aug
As an organization of institutional buyers, AALL is on the verge of becoming irrelevant. Just follow the money. Look at where our major “legal professional service vendors” are spending their ad and meeting sponsorship dollars for marketing their wares. It…
Friday Fun on Thursday: Because my head is in the cloud and I forgot what I was going to blog about today
25
Aug
From The Colbert Report: “Technology turns people into empty flesh terminals that rely on it for all their ideas, memories and relationships.” [JH] The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive
Will ePUB3 Lead to the Enhanced eBook?
23
Aug
The enhanced eBook, by which I mean an interactive product that seemlessly integrates embedded audio, video and applications related to content contextually, will make current eBook offerings obsolute at least with respect to professional and educational eBook literature. ePub has…
Under Construction: Turning an Ordinary Monitor into a Virtual Touch Screen
13
Aug
It’s called PreCursor and technology uses two camera to add a virtual layer in front of your monitor that signals commands based on your interactions with it. Invented by Pranav Mistry, the technology is still in the lab. Digital Inspiration…
Google Rolls Out Limited Launch of Google Scholar Citations
22
Jul
On July 20th, Google rolled out a limited launch of its new citation tracker because “[t]his is a new direction for us and we plan to use the experience and feedback from the limited launch to improve the service.” From…
"Data is to Information as Information is to Knowledge:" On Categorial Mistakes and Implementing Modern KM
13
Jul
“Last week someone tweeted a link to an article called “Who owns knowledge?” Fascinating title, right up my alley, couldn’t wait to read it. So I clicked away to the page hoping to find the answer to this esoteric question….
Talk About Being Available 24/7! Loaning iPads to Clients
12
Jul
The Arizonia Republic is reporting that two personal injury attorneys, Marc Lamber and James Goodnow of Fennemore Craig, have given iPad to 20 of the major clients they are currently representing so they can contact either attorney if they have…
