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
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Sex in the City, the Legal Way
On Being An Outlier in a Social Network
I am thinking about social networking. I know. You say, aren’t you always thinking about social networking, Lisa? Well, no. I also think about fashion, friends and my latest celebrity crush. (BTW, did you know that there are only 4 degrees of separation between me and @aplusk??? My apologies; I digress. I wonder if…
Spokeo Is Only `Spooky` In Its Inaccuracy
I’ve been hearing that there is a new “spooky” website out there called Spokeo that is freaking people out about how much information this site can find about you using just your name or email address. According to the website Smarterware:
Spokeo is the new people search engine that’s freaking users out, because when
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Are You a Leader or a Follower?
After watching the latest TED Talk by Derek Sivers on “how movements really get started“, I recalled how I understood how to leverage Twitter. Derek talks about how movements start not with a leader but with its first follower. For what is a leader but a nut case until he is followed?
As…
Law Students – Why 'Brief' a Case When You Can 'Wiki' It?
Toby and I were having lunch with Jason Wilson this week and I brought up the fun contest that Daniel Schwartz was conducting for the Connecticut Bar Foundation’s Technology Symposium. The contest was to ‘Tweet” your favorite US Supreme Court case in 140 characters or less (actually, if you take away the #cbftech you’re left…
Buzzkill Buzz
Yesterday I received a notice about Google releasing Buzz. So I followed the link to … my Gmail account. Huh? Strike One. After going back to the release notice, I finally found a statement that said something like, “Oh yeah – you might not have it yet.”
Still nothing this morning when I checked…
Tacit Knowledge Management – Time to Open the Conduits
In yesterday’s post, I predicted that 2010 would be the year the Knowledge Management (KM) thrived or died. In its current state, KM has turned into a mechanism that attempts to capture explicit knowledge in a way that is seamless to the person creating that knowledge. The results turn out to be databases filled…
Scared of the “C” Word? Then You Shouldn’t Be in Social Networking
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Social Networking Policies – What Does Your Law Firm Have To Say?
According to the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics survey on what companies are doing with social networking compliance, there are over 50% of companies that either do not have a social networking policy for their employees to follow, or do not know if they do. After running across a couple of law firm client…