Month: January 2021

  • Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 10, 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Don’t Let Ephemeral Messaging Apps Blow Up Your Ediscovery Matter

    Stress In The Workplace: Three takes for you to consider

    Saying a Production is Incomplete Does Not Make it True

    Mini-guide to help employee’s mental health through winter

    Whoops…Fabricated Text Messages Discovered

    Relativity acquires VerQu to capture communication data

    Announcing the 2021 State of the Industry Report!

    How to Protect and Empower Kids Online: An Interview with Wired Human

    What’s on the Horizon for Law Firms in 2021?

    Remembering those the Legal Tech Community Lost in 2020

    The ‘rise of the worker’ is here, and employees are calling the shots

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    Linked: Insurrectionists’ social media presence gives feds an easy way to ID them

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    On Wednesday, as we watched the invasion of the Capitol building play out, my first thought had everything to do with how little police and national guard presence there was. The reason that was my first thought was because we have watched this rally, and the ensuing violence, be planned on right in front of our faces on social media for the last few weeks. All you had to do was pay even a little bit of attention, and it was clear that there was a significant number of people who weren’t there to simply protest, but were there fully expecting this to be the start of a civil war. It was obvious enough that I knew it, just from an occasional look at Twitter or TikTok. I didn’t even have to go to the dark corners of the web to find it.

  • What Might We End up Paying for in 2021?

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    The tech predictions by Jefferson Graham on the USA Today website include a couple of tidbits about the possibility of users going over the new Google limits, and thus paying to keep their Gmail accounts, and the possibility of paid podcasts, large podcasts moving to a service similar to Apple Music, and becoming a paid…

  • Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 3, 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Working all the time isn’t the same thing as productivity

    Section 230: everything you need to know about the law protecting internet speech

    Will Remote Work Be the End of the 40-Hour Week?

    Here We Go Again? A Running Listing of eDiscovery Events in 2021

    The most important blog post

    Ways to build business relationships remotely

    16 Ideas to Implement in Your Professional and Personal Relationships in 2021

    Further Lessons in NOT Producing Discovery as PDFs

    6 ways tech can combat loneliness and boost mental health during the holidays

    iOS Privacy Changes Won’t Harm Small Businesses, Despite Facebook’s Claims

    You May See More PTSD Symptoms In Your Employees