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
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Connecting Lawyers With People For Good for Thirty Years
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
Twitter (“X”) doesn’t have a limit of 280 characters anymore
Twitter (“X”) doesn’t have a limit of 280 characters anymore for premium users – and that seems to include most of the users I’m learning from and engaging.
As you go by your first 280 characters Twitter will display a
Your publication’s dashboard looks different today
Log into your dashboard and it’ll look different. We’ve refreshed the design of the LexBlog Platform—same tools, same navigation, new coat of paint.
We were after a more modern, airy feel. White surfaces replace the old dark grey sidebar and
Preserving A Legacy, What Lawyers Can Learn From Artists About Archiving Their Published Work
Lawyers could learn a lot from artists when it comes preserving the lawyer’s published work.
As Anna Trammel, Project Manager, Community Programs for the Internet Archive puts it,
“Artists today use their websites as more than a business card–
Listen to this post, minus the robot
LXB Voice has used Polly’s standard text-to-speech engine since 2022. It now uses the neural engine on every install where Voice is turned on.
The two engines work differently. Standard voices use concatenative synthesis, which stitches together phonemes of recorded
The Parallels in the Preservation of Local News and the Preservation of Legal Publishing
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
The Erosion of the Human Voice and Credibility : AI in News Commentary and Op-Ed’s
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
Secondary Law in the 21st Century
I’ll put secondary law in the context of the Library at LexBlog as it sometime easier to explain from my perseopctive.
The values and mission of The Library at LexBlog’s are deeply rooted in the “law.” Here, secondary law
Why do People Care if Claude Puts Watermarks On Text it Wrote?
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