I usually put some of the non-legal (but fun) things on Friday posts, but today I am leaning toward more of the “Geeks” side of the blog than the “Law” side. Last week I saw a tweet fly by that mentioned GeoGuessr, so I had a few free moments to go try it out.
The bad boys of legal research, Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal of Fastcase, are once again looking at unique ways to look at legal information and create new methods to cull that information. In the latest iteration, they have come up with a way to use an algorithm to identify court cases with negative
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Evan Lowenstein noticed that the music industry had changed, and for musicians, that wasn’t a good thing. “It caused our industry to go from hundreds of artists making millions of dollars, to millions of artists making hundreds of dollars.” In fact, for a solo artist to just make
Kevin O’Keefe, wrote about the dueling Lexis and Thomson Reuters blogger summits on Tuesday in his post, Who’s Influencing Who. He seems to be concerned that the big L and TR are trying to curry favorable blog content by lavishing a few bloggers with fancy perks. I happened to stumble across his post as
Geek #1 and I had the opportunity to get a preview of the new Lexis Practice Advisor (LPA) Corporate Counsel Module. Now you might wonder why the two of us would care about such a product, given our roles in large firms. Well … it’s precisely those roles that make this new tool an interesting development.
[Editors Note: As I was going through some of the details for my InfoNgen post from a couple weeks ago, InfoNgen’s Director of Sales, Jim Hanlon, pointed me to an online resource for setting up a mutually agreeable time to meet, in this case a phone call, called timetrade. I found it to be
One of my favorite news aggregation resources is InfoNgen (pronounced: “Info-Engine”). I’ve been using it now for almost two years, and have found it to be an extremely useful tool in tracking current news on companies, topics, industries, and more. Recently, InfoNgen added a couple of features that improve the resulting newsletters as well as
I enjoy checking out new music apps for my mobile devices, and this week I came across one that really appealed to me in a number of ways. TuneIn Radio is an app that works on iOS, Android, Windows, BlackBerry, and even Palm devices, and offers over 60,000 over the air and Internet radio stations
[NOTE: I asked my colleague, Jonathan Owens, to write a guest post to discuss the eBook he wrote on Calculating Court Deadlines and some of the questions he addresses within the firm regarding court dockets. His eBook is available for download on the iPad, Kindle and Nook devices.]
In my many years of working as
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I ran across a summarizing tool that I think all of you would enjoy testing out. I found it through the Tools 4 Noobs website which focuses on PHP resources, but this can be used specifically from their “Summarize” tab on the website (no coding required… but, more on that