Image by mikemac29 via Flickr One of the more interesting conversations I had in New York with the family was, oddly enough, about social networking. Mostly due to the fact that I had “connected” with some of the family I was seeing that day on Facebook, and was sharing my plans to be part of…
I’ve seen a number of big names in the E-Discovery industry emphasizing the need for some basic technology education as part of the law school curriculum, especially as it relates to e-Discovery. In the last couple of days, I’ve also seen a couple of articles that highlight a couple of areas where just a little…
Normally, I respect what Preston Galla writes about over at Computerworld, but yesterday’s article just seemed like a whole lot of FUD to me. The BBC reports that researchers at the University of Texas at Austin were able to take completely anonymous data from Flickr and Twitter, run an algorithm on it, and from that…
I’ve sat in on enough product demos now, and had my own experience test-driving some of the applications, to have noticed something of a theme. Further discussions, have led me to believe that there’s something to this as well. Namely, that while using hosted document review tools may save you some money on the backend,…
Image by ogal via Flickr In the course of a conversation with a peer in the Litigation Support industry last week about best practices, a question struck me, that I don’t really have an answer for. I’ve always believed that when it came time to process, or search, collected data that came in from a…
I read a quote in this article about Facebook Friend Collector’s being pretty normal, that really sums up the value in social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook for me. “You can ask somebody, ‘Of your 300 Facebook friends how many are actually friends?’ and people will say, ‘Oh, 30 or 40 or 50,’” Professor…