I was at a party the other night and this guy was showing me his Android.
I really would like to have one but I was telling him that the touch screen gets in the way of my long nails. It is bad enough using the Blackberry keyboard with these nails.
Well, this guy showed
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It’s been a while since we’ve mentioned anything about Wolfram Alpha’s “computational knowledge engine”, but they released a neat little tool to create your own widgets. The widget builder makes it very easy to set up your own widget where you set up your input and allow that input to be manipulated.
For example,
Two things jumped out at me in yesterday’s discussion on the PLL Listserv regarding paid online services:
For #1, I have made clear my positions on cost recovery in both a blog post
It sounds like Wylie is pouncing on the opportunity made available by Amazon’s announcement of its new Kindle to make a finer point on his battle over e-book digital rights.
Coupled with Kindle CEO Bezos’ prediction that e-books will outpace paperbacks by 2012, Wylie is now threatening to expand his negotiations from a 20-book deal
Baker Botts announced yesterday that are moving into their next phase of “Associate Attributes Model [pdf]“, established in 2008, through the implementation of the “Talent Management Program“. The idea is to move Associates off of the lock-step model that has been prevalent in law firms, and toward more of a merit-based
As a literature lover, I spied this story in the Financial Times: according to the latest news on the e-book front, HarperCollins UK is joining Random House in its protest over the deal between literary agent Andrew Wylie and Amazon.com to create electronic versions of 20 classics.
Wylie’s classic collection includes Lolita, Invisible Man
Technologists often get approached with opportunities to solve problems using technology. We sit down and talk about the user’s desires. This happened to me last week – Billy called asking for help solving a problem, but once we sat down, Billy said “I read this article about this software product that firm x is using
Somewhere between reading Jason Wilson’s post on “Exploded Data, the Legal Web and What We’re Missing” and Toby’s post on “KM 3.0 = Analysis“, my brain started to smolder from all the ‘future of data’ discussion. Jason takes an example of a 33 word sentence and how 66 individual pieces of
[Guest Blogger Mark Gediman]
There has been a lot of discussion lately regarding AALL committees, services and programs. What seems to missing from some of this discussion is a desire to see constructive change. In my mind, it isn’t enough to identify a problem, you need to also show a desire to fix the
