I was minding my own business, live-tweeting a session at AALS when I got this response:
So angry! So assumptive! So missing the point! I never quite know what to make of responses like this. Am I supposed to stop the presentation and say, “Excuse me, Madame, but this guy
To catch you up from my earlier post, the unit of measurement for any culture or society is an idea. I break ideas down into three types: data, information and knowledge. Data is the most readily available and almost just…exists.
I don’t spend all my time dealing with open access ideas, education and open source technology. Sometimes I cross over to….the commercial world. An earlier, more cynical version of Sarah would have called that “The Dark Side”, but I’ve matured and I realized
Henry Ford is alleged to have said, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”(1) This repeated like a mantra by speakers at tech and legal conferences around the world. The audiences smile and nod knowingly at this pearl of wisdom from the great industrialist
Ignite talks. PechaKucha. Lighting Talks. And even, to an extent, TED Talks. Whatever you call it, conference organizers in law, libraries and legal education are starting to incorporate these talks into their events. If you’ve never seen one, each speaker gives a short (5-10 minute
This is the text of the closing plenary TED style talk I gave at SLA 2014. The language is a little saltier than I would generally use in a international presentation, but I did it for dramatic effect.
So, funny story…once upon a time I almost found myself among the ranks of the unemployed.
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I spent last Saturday in East Lansing, Michigan at the ReInvent Law Laboratory 2014 Entrepreneurial Lawyering Workshop. Now, I’m at point in my career and life where I consider sleeping in on a Saturday to be not only a privilege, but almost a sacred right that I only give up grudgingly. So