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October 2019
Yesterday, Dave Winer shared that librarians are the unsung heroes of the web. It’s so true, just read the points Winer made.
We may not be all the way there yet, but the Library at LexBlog will start doing its part on the access to justice front.
I hadn’t thought of sharing my thinking on this front until LawDroid announced the LawDroid Hackathon, a virtual, global, open-source competition presented in partnership with Lagniappe Law Lab and the
How much longer are we going to see content marketing primarily accessed from law firm websites?
Those of you following along as to the implications of AI on existing business models may be connecting the dots already.
Look at the recent development of StubHub making its inventory of entertainment tickets and the like available to
“If you build it, he will come.” The voice in the corn whispered to Ray Kinsella.
In founding and going the distance in business (law firm, virtual legal community, legal publishing platform) I always believed, “If you build it they will come.”
You look to ease someone’s pain. À la what Ray did for Doc
All the talk and money in AI seems to be about big law, not small law.
When my last company, Prairielaw, was bought by LexisNexis’ Martindale Hubbell, we were charge with part of the buildout of lawyers.com. Build a publishing and community foundation to attract consumers and small business people.
With Martindale Hubbell doing over
I’d like to think I’ve been part of organizations connecting lawyers with people for good for the last thirty years. Our success measured by our level of care and how many people we’ve helped. My latest and maybe my last cause, The Library at LexBlog.
Knowing the loved ones people lost twenty five years ago
This June, the Internet Archive hosted the National Summit on Local News Preservation through their Today’s News for Tomorrow (TNT) bringing together journalists, librarians, archivists, and researchers to develop recommendations for newsrooms and cultural heritage organizations and for preserving local news.
The preface of their report laid out some dire circumstances.
“Local news in the
Dan Kennedy, a long time journalist and a professor at Northeastern University, has a great piece calling out AI news commentaries as an abomination. But asks are they really any worse than ghostwritten op-eds?
As Kennedy reports, the op-ed page, unveiled by The New York Times more than half a century ago, was
Claude and OpenAI have let know they’ll be adding watermarks to its copy so as to comply with EU laws.
Reading the net, I see people complaining, some raising concerns on way or the other and others seeing AI playing with their writing, including legal professionals and their content marketing people writing for law firms.
Should AI in the law be controlled by the people who use AI versus the companies that build it and develop solutions for it? People in the law meaning legal professionals and the public.
The New York Times’ Cade Metz reports,
“A year ago, Igor Babuschkin left xAI, the artificial intelligence start-up he founded