It seems that Toby and I have a few extra dollars in our pockets, and we wanted to test some more Crowdsourcing Projects. Back in May, we did a 5 Part Series on Crowdsourcing and had some fun testing out different projects using Amazon’s MTurk Crowdsourcing service. We thought we’d test the value of
Now that I’ve had a weekend to play with two different variations of the new Chrome OS (reviewed here), I have to say that I’ve got a lot of mixed feelings about Google’s attempt to jump into the operating system arena. One of the feelings I felt this weekend was completely unexpected —
Whenever I mention “The Cloud” to my IT/KM friends, I usually see the hairs on the back of their necks stand up and a flash of anger cross their faces. Up until yesterday I assumed that the general dislike of “The Cloud” was one born out of instability and lack of security issues.
Being a female lawyer has a few perks: the money can be good, the prestige can be great. But as the saying goes, it is lonely at the top. I started thinking about all of this after my esteemed colleague, Toby a/k/a @gnawledge, passed me a dating site for lawyers. He’s heard a number
Many of you have probably seen the Tweets going around this morning about how Google Scholar has entered into the legal research arena. I have to say that I’m initially thrilled with the idea that after 15 to 20 years of legal vendor consolidation, that we may actually be on the cusp of reintroducing some
Last week, Toby and I dove into the clean waters that is know as Google Wave. I say that it is the “clean” waters of Google Wave because most people I know have barely stuck a toe in – and most of them immediately pulled that toe back out.
I got it! I got it! I got it today! I was so, so happy–when I came home tonite something told me to pick up my mail and to my distinct pleasure I had received the December issue of Esquire; “henceforth to be known as the Genius Issue,” to quote Robert Downey, Jr. Why,
The Twitter Times is perhaps one of the best formatted mashups of Twitter posts I’ve seen. This jewel is the brainchild of Russian genius Maxim Griniv and combines the power of information provided in the Twitter community with the aesthetic comfort of a newspaper style format. In my opinion, this might be one of the
I read a great study about the difference between Generation X and Generation Y female online activity.According to PopSugar Media—isn’t that a great name, by the way?—two-thirds of female Gen Xers rely on female Gen Yers to define pop culture trends. And female Gen Yers are twice as likely as female Gen Xers to
