Monthly Archives: January 2012

Google #Social #Search #AntiTrust – Long live Bing?!
Google #Social #Search #AntiTrust – Long live Bing?!

Wails of anguish, even from Cersys, are greeting last week’s Google search changes. The social world has shrunk. Google is cheating their Google+ results higher in ranking than everything else, and dropping twitter results entirely. Or so I hear. I was hoping to weather the storm, but this is business. This directly affects the Cersys…

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Hyperbole and a Half: Wild Animal (The Simple Dog Goes for a Joy Ride)
Hyperbole and a Half: Wild Animal (The Simple Dog Goes for a Joy Ride)

  Have you ever had a lovable yet stupid pet?  You’ll probably adore this story, then… Hyperbole and a Half: Wild Animal (The Simple Dog Goes for a Joy Ride).

e-Discovery MOVES the need for expertise – does not REMOVE it
e-Discovery MOVES the need for expertise – does not REMOVE it

A Forbes article ” What Technology-Assisted Electronic Discovery Teaches Us About The Role Of Humans In Technology” – by (Ben Kerschberg @benkerschberg) – sparked an interesting discussion on twitter.  What caught my eye?  The article’s description of ‘attorney surprise’ that e-discovery success in leveraging search or predictive coding would be affected by having good search terms or seeds….

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Penguin Dance – E-Books blocked/available via Libraries
Penguin Dance – E-Books blocked/available via Libraries

Here’s an interesting thread of stories regarding Penguin’s dance around the availability of eBooks for libraries. Are they in? Are they out? New ones? Old ones? Following yesterday’s news that Penguin, citing security concerns, is pulling its new e-books from libraries—and making none of them available for library lending through Kindle—many are wondering why the…

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