As I watched the #ILTA09 session tweets roll by from @VMaryAbraham, I just got more and more disgusted. Not at Mary, mind you (she was rockin’ with the informative tweets), but rather at the presenter Jason Dorsey and his message. Now, I must give a full disclaimer here and say that I was not
When I was in the US Army, we used to have a saying: “Do not tick off the Mess Cook, the Supply Sergeant, or the Payroll Officer.” The reason was simple… you didn’t want to worry about what was in your food, pay for items that were mysteriously signed out to you and then lost;
As I was following some of the ILTA ’09 Conference chatter, I read something from David Hobbie that caught my attention. David was quoting Kevin O’Keefe‘s comment of “thought leaders will blog because of their insatiable desire to learn.” I thought that was a pretty good quote, so I retweeted it with a comment
Interesting turn of events: Vogue model Liskula Cohen won the right to force Google to unmask a blogger who defamed her character.
Taking a turn from Toby’s previous post on Google’s Gmail, I have to raise an eyebrow.
On the one hand, Google claims that they have a right to scan all of your e-mail
If you are like me, you spend most of your time “reacting” to the demands of the day. People walk into my office, call me on the phone, or email me requests all day long, and I (like the good little automated message that I am) try to answer them in the order they were
Recently I noticed a resurgence of the debate on the wisdom of lawyers using hosted, freebie email accounts. The basic concern has been about the security of these types of email addresses. It is quite easy to spoof one of these addresses and intercept communications. As well Twitter can testify that once cracked, the passwords
If you are like me, you have a lot of people that you “follow” via your social media channels. For example, I have over 2,600 folks that I follow via Twitter. But, out of those 2,600+ I probably only have the emails to a couple of dozen, and the phone numbers of a handful. My
[Please welcome 3 Geeks’ Guest Blogger, Mark Gediman]My Grandfather was notorious about finding a deal. He would go into a major department store and dicker with them over their prices. To him, the published price was just a starting point and he refused to buy unless he thought he was getting the price that
Peter Schwartz of the Huffington Post writes in his article “The Reinvention of Legal Research: The Future is Now” about information being a commodity and how the easy availability of access to “data” is posing a new challenge to legal research giants Lexis and Westlaw. As much as I wish that Peter’s assumptions
