They say that everything is bigger in Texas. Apparently that even includes self-deluding opinions. Yesterday, a friend pointed me toward an article in Texas Law Book entitled Get Wall Street Out of the Practice of Law. (Subscription Required) In this opinion piece, the author, a former Big Law partner and current Legal Communications Advisor,
I know that we’ve talked for years about the amount of information that people give out freely via social media platforms, but I haven’t seen any video that’s better than Jack Vale’s Social Experiment in showing strangers how much he can know about them just by reviewing their social media posts.
For those Fall Associates,
I have spent the last two days at the ARK Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession conference in Midtown Manhattan. It was a very good conference, as usual. I very much enjoyed listening to and meeting with many brilliant and fascinating people to talk about KM in legal. However, after this conference I have come
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At first it was really cool. Then it got really, really bad. Eventually, I had to just shut down the browser to escape the music and sensory overload!! A YouTube replay of Miley Cyrus at the VMAs?? No… I could actually sit through that. I’m talking about The Festival Issue
On Monday afternoon, sometime between 4 and 5 PM, I am giving a short talk about the Internet of Things at the ILTA Conference in Las Vegas (SPEC 5, Roman Ballroom II). This story bears almost no relation to the talk I’m giving, but as I researched the IoT I was inspired to
In the “my eyes rolled so far into the back of my head, I saw my brain” department today, comes this Elberon, Iowa Public Library Director job posting.
Hat-tip to Andy Woodworth for pointing this ad out, and for clarifying that the town of Elberon has just 196 people, and that the ad should
It seems everyone is talking about the NSA’s surveillance program, PRISM, these days. Although the program seems to be very creative in ways of gathering information, it seems that the group’s presentation skills need a bit of work. Don’t worry, French freelance presentation designer, Emiland, has come in to help!
Emiland has taken the
My kids were going through every TomSka (asdfmovie) video on YouTube last night when the first five seconds of asdfmovie4 caught my attention (as well as my wife, who is also a librarian.)
Although she has to deal with Pre-K through 5th Graders, and I have to deal with lawyers, we just smiled
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Usually, I ignore unsolicited emails that rant about a vendor or association or how I could benefit from having a real editor review my posts before hitting “submit.” Every once in a while, however, I do get some gems, and this weekend I got one I wanted to share with you. The
So, stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Two blonde-haired sisters walk into a bar and ask people if they have legal questions in need of answering. Actually, it’s not a joke, although the resulting YouTube channel is very funny. Amy Epstein Feldman (lawyer) and her sister, Robin Epstein (comedy writer) decided to expand