Greg recently described the changing role of library spaces. An environment once valued for its utilitarianism now entices guests by offering comfort and camaraderie. A change from tradition? Certainly. But this evolution of the library’s space duly reflects the changes in the latest generation’s social interactions and, yes, the rise of social media. That
I think I have finally figured out why lawyers don’t like social media. Typing.Yes, typing. Many of the lawyers of a certain generation are used to handing over dictaphone tapes, orating from behind podiums or simply taking handwritten notes on a legal pad. They can’t be bothered to type.Now, with the “burgeoning” of technology into
More than once I have been asked, “Where should law firms be in the social media landscape? Facebook or LinkedIn?” And, by coincidence, a colleague circulated a blog posting from Entrepreneur.com, “Thoughts on Twitter Versus Facebook for Business.” Which made me thing, “heck, I should write a post!” (Plus I ran into fellow Geeksters @gnawledge
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If there is one thing that social media has helped amplify, it’s the fact that stupid people do stupid things, and love to tell everyone about it. Case in point – Scott Harris of Staten Island, NY.
Seems that this 31 year-old man decided that shooting a .38 caliber pistol out
There was an interesting ruling out of the Eastern District of New York last month where a Defendant argued that data found on LinkedIn, Facebook and other social media sites prevents the Plaintiff from claiming Trade Secret protection on its Client Relationship database. In Sasqua Group, Inc. v. Courtney, [PDF], Sasqua Group’s owner,
I remember the birth of the web. Programmers were excited about the new opportunities. HTML was in its infancy – it was simple to understand and easy to implement. The idea of linking information together, making it easier to locate and share, seemed revolutionary and created a platform on which just about anyone could contribute
That was the lyric of the Some Girls’ song I was listening to while I just happened to be reading how Google’s boss, Eric Schmidt, suggested that someday young people will have to change their actual identities to escape their online identities. Schmidt, like a lot of other “non-young people”, seem to think that young
I thought I misread the LexBlog “New Blogs” post this morning when it said that Fox Rothschild just launched its twenty-sixth (that’s 26!!) blog this week. Holy crap!! Twenty-Six Blogs from a BigLaw Firm??? That is completely amazing. Not only that, but in my quick scan of the blogs, it seems that there is
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With Google’s announcement yesterday that it is going to wind down Google Wave at the end of the year and move the pieces around to other products, the blogosphere and twitterverse have been full of “Ha!! You early adopters can suck it!!” comments. There’s also a lot of discussion of