A buddy of mine, who does IT for a large company, recently shared an email he received from Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. IN conjunction with Amazon EC2, Amazon also offers: [...]
Last month I noted that Mailchimp re-wrote their terms of service, mostly ditching legalese and adopting plain language, in order to better serve their users. Not to be left out, Reddit just overhauled their Privacy Policy (discussion of policy), ditching the old, off-the-shelf legalese version with a new plain language one crafted especially for Reddit (actuall [...]
The tragedy in Boston is a horrible thing. No motive or purpose can ever justify violence perpetrated on the innocent. It is especially awful that the attack was conducted at a race. As any runner can attest, races are uplifting, motivational events for everyone in attendance – participants and spectators alike. Races unite people from all backgrounds [...]
A couple days ago Jordan Rushie made a post at the Philly Law Blog entitled Your Website Is Not a Reception Area in response to the ongoing rah-rahs at the ABA TechShow and “lawyer coach” Rachel Rodgers. Rushie states: Ah, the future of law! Technology is going to change everything about lawyering! In the very [...]
We want to present our terms like any other content that’s meant for humans, not just for other attorneys. - Valerie Danin, General Counsel for MailChimp So begins a blog post at MailChimp, in which they describe how they have modified and updated their Terms and Policies. It’s a rather disappointing, if not unexpected observation [...]
I do. I own the law. www.whoownsthelaw.com If this makes no sense to you (which it really shouldn’t), go look at all the tweets regarding the #reinventlaw conference that is going on now. Or just follow me on Twitter, if you want to see more hashtag, conference-hijacking shenanigans.
A couple of days ago I received an email encouraging me to cheat. It was from Twitter. Here is the pertinent part of the message: Twitter was offering two methods of advertising. Neither involved any sort of ad placement or banner placement. Rather they offered: Promoted Accounts Promoted Tweets Why is this cheating? Because, whether you realize it or [...]
I’ve already told you about how you don’t own your video games. I’ve already told you about how you don’t own your books. And if you haven’t already heard, while you do own your photos, you’re licensing them away for free – at least if they’re on Instagram. Some or all of the service [...]
Oddly enough, the internet is actually quite old school when it comes to relationships. Trust is given on first impressions. It’s essentially all a handshake deal. How Google Works A PageRank results from a mathematical algorithm based on the webgraph, created by all World Wide Web pages as nodes and hyperlinks as edges, taking into consideration authority [...]
Want deep insight into what the younger generation thinks of laws? The deep and abiding knowledge they have? See this thread on Reddit: Lawyers of Reddit, What are Some Interesting Laws/Loopholes? There are nearly 10,000 posts, of which maybe .01% were actually written by lawyers. Want some highlights? I guarantee I’ve watched more Law [...]
Keith writes and speaks on Professional Development, Law, Technology, and Net Culture. Alabama lawyer. Interests: running, food, martial arts, Classics.
