Linked – How Facebook Is Killing Comedy
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Linked – How Facebook Is Killing Comedy

This is clearly true. “Facebook has created a centrally designed internet. It’s a lamer, shittier looking internet. It’s just not as cool as an internet that is a big, chaotic space filled with tons of independently operating websites who are able to make a living because they make something cool that people want to see.”…

Linked – How security became more important than convenience
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Linked – How security became more important than convenience

This is good news, and frankly, I’m a bit surprised. Happily. According to IBM Security’s new “Future of Identity Study,” users of both mobile and desktop are wide awake to what’s happening with each new high profile breach, and it’s made them change their priorities. Strong security and privacy are now at the forefront of…

Linked – Confidence Is Personal: Being a Better Public Speaker
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Linked – Confidence Is Personal: Being a Better Public Speaker

I like this article, but especially this bit of advice: What about your tendency to fill every pause with “Um”? This is telling you to get more familiar with your material. If you know what you’re going to say, you won’t have to pause to remember. The “um” has always had two meanings to me….

Want to Keep Up With the eDiscovery Industry?

Want to Keep Up With the eDiscovery Industry?

You could do worse than this list of the Top 60 eDiscovery Blogs and Websites For eDiscovery Professionals There are a bunch I already follow in one way or another on the list, some I haven’t been following and even a few I’ve never heard of before. That’s always a nice mix. Time to update…

Linked – Google Wants To AMP Up Your Email
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Linked – Google Wants To AMP Up Your Email

This is a legitimate concern about Google’s plan but I’m sure eDiscovery was the last of Google’s concerns about this: “What will happen when program code is contained in email? How will lawyers establish that an email is the same as it was when written years ago when it ran an app or script that…

Linked – Salon to ad blockers: Can we use your browser to mine cryptocurrency?
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Linked – Salon to ad blockers: Can we use your browser to mine cryptocurrency?

Can’t say that I’ve read anything on Salon in years, but this is an interesting response to ad-blocking, which is not going away: “Salon.com has a new, cryptocurrency-driven strategy for making money when readers block ads. If you want to read Salon without seeing ads, you can do so—as long as you let the website…