Associate's Mind

Over the weekend, Scott Greenfield wrote about the trend in social media that one can be a mentor or be mentored via social media: There’s harm being done here, and that’s why it’s necessary to point this out.  The lawyer who has tried ten cases is being “mentored” by the twitter lawyer who has never [...]

  Don’t say nice things about everyone. Don’t re-tweet that someone re-tweeted you. Don’t thank people for following. Don’t automatically follow people back. When someone follows you and they are obviously a hack – tell them to go away. Tell people to get off your website. Don’t be inviting. Point out hypocrisy and foolishness. Intimidate [...]

There is something compulsive about a telephone. The gadget-ridden man of our age loves it, loathes it, and is afraid of it. But he always treats it with respect, even when he is drunk. The telephone is a fetish. -Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (1953) Now more than ever, telephones are black holes of information. [...]

A couple of weeks ago another new legal app was simultaneously launched on iOS and Android entitled Docket in Your Pocket (DYP). The brain child of Iowa attorney Mathew Haindfield, the app provides: Access to Pennsylvania court records, including criminal charges, lawsuit filings, civil judgments, traffic offenses and more — complete with comprehensive updates twice [...]

  All the lights were out. I was laying in bed, next to the rhythmic breathing of my wife’s sleep. The only thing illuminating the dark room was the faint glow of the iPad’s screen. I turned pages through the book I was reading; skimming my finger briefly across the screen. Mid-turn I stopped, examining [...]

Earlier this year, the Web Ecology Project (WEP, an interdisciplinary research group focusing on using large scale data mining to analyze the system-wide flows of culture and community online) ran an interesting experiment on Twitter. The picked a specific networked group of 500 people who all had similar interests in a topic. Here is a [...]

  In the wake of the flash mob riots earlier this year in London, Scotland Yard arrested two teens for “inciting riots” on Facebook. Then two weeks later they arrested ten more. Eventually, two men were sentenced to four years in prison for inciting riots on Facebook: The two men were convicted for using Facebook [...]

  I spent roughly 7 hours roundtrip in the car on Wednesday, to attend a hearing that took a little over 30 minutes. In the litany of intricacies of practice that law school does not adequately prepare law students for, add long car drives to the list. That being said, I don’t really mind it. [...]

Crime, in the age of Twitter, comes to appear as a form of cartel – that needs busting. – Will Davies, Research Fellow at Oxford University, in reference to the on-going riots in London. Much has already been written about the role of social media in the riots in London, now on their third day. Publicity [...]

Click here Here’s a screenshot of mine below: Pretty accurate. Fortunately, you can opt out at the above page as well. Even better, you could go to the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt out tool here and opt out from dozens of advertising tracking services at once. H/T: Hacker News