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 as to not repeat past mistakes and party because there’s only so many tunes in life – shout out Damian… Continue reading Skeuomorphs, Metachronisms, and The Persistence of Memory
Category: digital legal information
this is the moment yall, where we dismantle the genre machine
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 then start eating first by most numerous and then when they’re all an even number, one at a time from… Continue reading this is the moment yall, where we dismantle the genre machine
The PL in UPL
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 here as a lawyer so you can’t give legal advice, just legal information.” When asked what that meant, I was… Continue reading The PL in UPL
The Idea Business
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 Henry Ford. The man… Continue reading The Idea Business
Reflections on LVI2012
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, academics, non-profits and even some civic minded hackers. For me, this was one of those truly transformative conference experiences and… Continue reading Reflections on LVI2012
CALIcon10 Ignite Speech
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 – Glassmeyer View more presentations from sglassmeyer CALI Ignite Speech Howdy. My name is Sarah Glassmeyer and I am a… Continue reading CALIcon10 Ignite Speech