Almost 20 years ago, I envisioned the day that the niche-focused insight of lawyers then being shared in blogs would instantly assist lawyers working on transactions, documents, pleadings and the like.
I imagined a lawyer working on something and the relevant published insight of legal counsel surfacing to assist via a technology interface, without you doing research or heading to…
What’s causing Twitter/X to jump with activity and engagement of late?
Jumping back on Twitter over the last week or two, I can say things are hopping (maybe they were before I came back) and the engagement and learning are at a very high level.
My take on why?
Business/legal social media with a lot of trappings and often driven…
“If you build it, he will come.” The voice in the corn whispered to Ray Kinsella.
In founding and going the distance in business (law firm, virtual legal community, legal publishing platform) I always believed, “If you build it they will come.”
You look to ease someone’s pain. À la what Ray did for Doc “Moonlight” Graham who shared his…
All the talk and money in AI seems to be about big law, not small law.
When my last company, Prairielaw, was bought by LexisNexis’ Martindale Hubbell, we were charge with part of the buildout of lawyers.com. Build a publishing and community foundation to attract consumers and small business people.
With Martindale Hubbell doing over $100M from large law, we…
I’d like to think I’ve been part of organizations connecting lawyers with people for good for the last thirty years. Our success measured by our level of care and how many people we’ve helped. My latest and maybe my last cause, The Library at LexBlog.
Knowing the loved ones people lost twenty five years ago today and with it realizing…
Twitter (“X”) doesn’t have a limit of 280 characters anymore for premium users – and that seems to include most of the users I’m learning from and engaging.
As you go by your first 280 characters Twitter will display a message that reads “Only the first 280 characters will be visible on the timeline.” Works akin to a headline on…
Lawyers could learn a lot from artists when it comes preserving the lawyer’s published work.
As Anna Trammel, Project Manager, Community Programs for the Internet Archive puts it,
“Artists today use their websites as more than a business card– they are an online portfolio, CV, document of artistic evolution, and works of art in their own right. They are…
This June, the Internet Archive hosted the National Summit on Local News Preservation through their Today’s News for Tomorrow (TNT) bringing together journalists, librarians, archivists, and researchers to develop recommendations for newsrooms and cultural heritage organizations and for preserving local news.
The preface of their report laid out some dire circumstances.
“Local news in the United States is disappearing, and…
Dan Kennedy, a long time journalist and a professor at Northeastern University, has a great piece calling out AI news commentaries as an abomination. But asks are they really any worse than ghostwritten op-eds?
As Kennedy reports, the op-ed page, unveiled by The New York Times more than half a century ago, was originally conceived as a way…
I’ll put secondary law in the context of the Library at LexBlog as it sometime easier to explain from my perseopctive.
The values and mission of The Library at LexBlog’s are deeply rooted in the “law.” Here, secondary law published by any legal professional, whether a lawyer, academic, law student, other legal professional or a professional working in an…
