This post was written by Greg Lambert: "Somewhere between reading Jason Wilson's post on "Exploded Data, the Legal Web and What We're Missing" and Toby's post on "KM 3.0 = Analysis", my brain started to smolder from all the 'future of data' discussion. Jason takes an example of a 33 word sentence and how 66 individual pieces of "exploded data" (which looks a lot like XML structured data) were extrapolated, and the 'explosion of data' could probably have easily continued on for at least another 66 categories. Toby had talked about the predictions that the amount of information stored in the world today surpassed the zettabyte threshold and is continuing to grow as we get "better-faster-cheaper search and retrieval systems."

Wilson ends his post with these two sentences:

The question is whether we will step up to organize this sea of data, or wait until a program can do it for us. If the latter, what does it say about the future of legal research and the practice of law?..."

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Source: 3 Geeks & a Blog, 26 July 2010. Reproduced with permission of the authors.

Podcast description from the site: "In this edition of the ESI Report, host Gina Jytyla, Managing Staff Attorney in the Legal Technologies division at Kroll Ontrack, welcomes Kimberly Marin, Security Analyst and E-Discovery Specialist with the Hershey Company and Nasar Ali, Legal Consultant for Kroll Ontrack, to discuss key milestones in e-discovery history, along with corporate compliance challenges and best practices for data management. In the Bits & Bytes Legal Analysis segment, Kroll Ontrack Legal Correspondent Kelly Kubacki explores City of Ontario, California v. Quon.

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Source: Legal Talk Network, 27 July 2010. © 2010 · Legal Talk Network. Reproduced with permission of Scott R. Hess.

This post was written by Steven Matthews: "Knowledge@Warton has a great recap of a discussion from the 2010 Supernova forum. At issue is the evolution of social networking tools, and how they compare with corporate KM efforts. It's an interesting discussion with a diverse range of opinions.  If you're currently involved in a KM program, or a law librarian seeking new ways to add value to your firm, I would encourage you to read this piece in its entirety.

One issue in particular that caught my eye was the contrast between 'keeping it fun' and maintaining value. Here's a snippet:..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 8 July 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw

This post was written by Dan Pinnington: "Came across a cool Twitter app I didn't know about yesterday: Twapper Keeper. Twapper Keeper lets you create an archive based upon hashtag, keyword, or person. All the relevant tweets are gathered in one place, and they can be exported and downloaded..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 18 May 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw.

This post was written by Ted Tjaden: "...It would appear that knowledge management is alive and well, albeit perhaps in an evolving manner. I will try to post shortly in more detail on the discussions that ensued at the session but thought for now I would post here at the following link a PDF of the paper I submitted called The Evolution of Law-Related Knowledge Management in North America - Opportunities for Law Librarians..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 11 May 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw

Podcast description from the site: "In this edition of the ESI Report, host Gina Jytyla, Managing Staff Attorney in the Legal Technologies division at Kroll Ontrack, welcomes attorney John Jablonski, Partner with Goldberg Segalla, LLP and Wayne Wong, Managing Consultant for Kroll Ontrack, to discuss how archiving technology can reduce costs, and assist with data management and defensible legal hold implementation. In the Bits & Bytes Legal Analysis segment, Kroll Ontrack Legal Correspondent Kelly Kubacki focuses on the facts and discovery order issued in Gucci America, Inc. v. Curveal Fashion.

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Source: Legal Talk Network, 23 April 2010. © 2010 · Legal Talk Network. Reproduced with permission of Scott R. Hess.

This post was written by Ernest Svenson: "Did you know that, according to the Wall St. Journal, 1 hour a day is wasted in most offices looking for missing information?  This factoid is something I frequently mention whenever I'm giving a talk about 'going paperless.'  Everyone nods there head when I say this, and the expressions of the head-nodders are always ones of exasperation.  Paper is inherently hard to wrangle and so we lose a lot of information just because we can't find the paper that contains it.

But that's only part of the story, and it's probably the smaller part.  

What about information that isn't 'missing'? It's not lost, but it is in paper form as opposed to being digitized.  How much longer does it take in an average day to find that information and then act on it?..."

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Source: Ernie the Attorney, 15 April 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Jim Heckman: "When a firm first adopts a document management system such as Worldox, it has to contend with the fact that many secretaries and power users have constructed their own workarounds to compensate for the innate inefficiency of not having a DNS...

Fortunately, there are a variety of ways around this.  One "quick and dirty" solution that I frequently suggest is to have the user move those files into Worldox but to add there initials or a unique code such as your initials (personally I use "yyy") to the description. Then, you can do a search for "yyy" and all your documents appear...

An added benefit is that the "standard" documents can then be organized to benefit the entire firm to the extent that they are useful to more than one person.

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Source: Does It Compute? 3 March 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Simon Fodden: "There's an interesting little post on Tim Bray's blog, Ongoing, entitled "The Listening Engine." Bray, one of the bloggers I've been following for years now, is the Canadian software developer and entrepreneur who co-founded Open Text Corporation and who is now the Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems. He's thoughtful, sensible.

In The Listening Engine he puzzles over how it is that RSS and Twitter are resources that some people simply don't make use of...

He muses that we may be seeing a simple stratification in society into two layers: those who are well-informed because of their "intensity of listening," to use his phrase, and those who are not...

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Source: Slaw.ca, 10 February 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Posted by Sabrina I. Pacifici: "Deep Web Research 2010: Marcus P. Zillman is a an internet search expert whose extensive knowledge of how to leverage the "invisible" or "deep" web is exemplified in this guide. The Deep Web covers somewhere in the vicinity of 1 trillion pages of information located through the world wide web in various files and formats. Current search engines are able to locate around 200 billion pages. Marcus identifies sources to mitigate the odds on behalf of serious searchers."

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Source: beSpacific - Accurate, focused law and technology news by Sabrina I. Pacifici. 14 December 2009 Copyright ©2002-2009. BeSpacific LLC. All Rights Reserved. Subscribe <http://www.bespacific.com/mt/subscribe.html>.