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Legal Research & the Google Generation SLA - Emerging Technologies Breakfast June 5, 2007. Thomas B. Fleming, tbf@jmbm.com Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP. New Avenues of Communication. Cellphones – txt msg (t9), Web, camera etc Blogs, wikis, YouTube ($1.3 B), IM
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Legal Research & theGoogle Generation SLA - Emerging Technologies BreakfastJune 5, 2007 Thomas B. Fleming, tbf@jmbm.com Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP
New Avenues of Communication • Cellphones – txt msg (t9), Web, camera etc • Blogs, wikis, YouTube ($1.3 B), IM • Wireless – 37% of Internet usage • Internet usage by age • 18-29 – 83% • 30-49 – 82% • 50-64 – 70%
Web 2.0 (Social Interaction) Impact • No exact definition but “participatory Web” • Blogs, wikis, social networking, podcasts… • Who interacts instead of how you interact • Library 2.0 – LLRX posting • Linkedin.com – new rolodex • Lunch 2.0
Web – Technorati 4/07 • 70 M blogs & 1.4 blogs created every sec • 22 Blogs in the 100 MSM • Languages - Japanese 37%, English 33%, Chinese 8% & Italian 3% • 230 M posts with tags or categories
Tagging the Web • Process of creating labels for online content • Bottom up classification not bottom down • 63% of taggers under the age of 50 • 35% of 2/07 posts used tags • 28% of Internet users tagged content • Revolutionizing the way we classify info
Age Groups • Mature – 82-62 - Books • Baby Boomers – 61-43 - Online & books • Generation X – 42-26 & Y 25- • Information is instant, free & correct • Y always had computers • Expect instant gratification
Legal Research – X & Y • Use resources beyond the books • Community Patent Review Project – NYU • Law appears as standing reserve not concepts • Legal research universe is not finite but the infinite is unorganized • Facts & keyword not legal concepts
Librarian’s Role - Paul Callister • “Library as Portal to the World” • “Library as Social Knowledge Network” • “Library as Transforming User Behavior & Character” • “Library as Transformative & Communal Place”
Points to Remember • Digitally forgotten–What is not on the Web • Teach legal research – integrated that is • Economics of legal research • billable hours v online costs • Internet footprint
Bibliography • Bridging the Generation Gap Over Legal Research, 28 National Law Journal #40, 6/12/06 • Discovering the Latest in Web 2.0 Developments by Connie Crosby, http://www.llrx.com/node/1830/print • Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger, http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ • Forty-Two: The Hitchhikers Guide to Legal Research to the Google Generation by Ian Gallagher, 39 Akron Law Review 151, 2006
Bibliography (continued) • 99 Law Library Journal, #2, http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_llj_v99n02.asp • Legal Research & the Threat of the Available, 94 Illinois Bar Journal 618. November 2006 • LLRX.com, http://www.llrx.com • The New World Versus the Old World of Legal Research by Patrick Spangler, 20 Chicago Bar Association Record 48, April 2006
Bibliography (continued) • Pew Internet & American Life Project, http://www.pewinternet.org/ • Teaching Legal Blog, http://tlr07.classcaster.org • The Virtual Chase, http://www.thevirtualchase.com