Category: digital legal information
If you’ve been aware of my existence for awhile, you probably have noticed I love thinking about the history of technology and using it to look for parallels in my modern professional life. Partly so…
I am a classifier by nature. For instance, whenever I eat a bag of M&Ms or Skittles (or Smarties, for my Canadian friends), I generally dump the bag out, sort the candy by color, and…
Picture it. Lexington, Kentucky. Fall 2006. I was a newish law librarian at an academic law library with a significant public patron traffic load. My boss told me “what ever you do, remember you’re not…
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…
I had the great privilege of attending the Law via the Internet conference this week in Ithaca, NY. This conference brings together people from all around the world involved in putting law online – LIIs,…
The following is the text of a 5 minute ignite speech that I gave as part of the CALI Conference Friday Plenary. The formatting will seem odd… those are my slide change breaks. Calicon Ignite…
