One of the trends that I’ve seen in the past 15 years or so of legal research is that the lawyer requesting the research has become more and more self-reliant. For legal research specialists, this is a mixed blessing at times. In many cases, it means that the lawyer has completed a major portion of
The other day, I was cruising around on the internet and I came across the EPA’s web site.
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Whether you call them Social Media Consultants or Social Media Gurus, there are people out there that are more than ready to come in and work with you to set up a social media policy and explain the ropes of the social media world for lawyers and law firms. In
Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn, Oh My!
March 11-12, 2011
First, before I begin, I would like to thank Saskia Melhorn for asking me to speak here at the joint Houston Area Law Librarian/SouthWest Area Law Librarian Meeting. I spoke here two years
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. Of course, the article was actually about copyright on legal documents, and it’s
I’ve always tended to chuckle whenever I follow a conference hashtag on Twitter because there are just so many little cliches that fit in 140 characters or less, and the tweets tend to end up looking like something you’d find on a sign outside a church. To be fair, it usually isn’t the person tweeting
Two different NYT stories caused me to start thinking about crowdsourcing: World War II Mystery Solved in a Few Hours and Identifying Looters and Lovers in Vancouver’s Riot. In both instances, photos were posted online to help identify people who held themselves out in a public manner and whose actions were memorialized by photos.
I knew this morning that I felt a blog post coming on… (it’s a little like a cold with less sneezing)
One of my favorites apps these days is my GoodReads app.
I finally broke down and bought an iPhone, I am the first of the three Geeks to own one. Don’t ask me why I waited so long. I don’t know why. Well, I do. I’m cheap and my firm wasn’t going to pay for