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Yahoo’s Mindset Welcome To Slaw Welcome To Slaw by Simon Fodden July 8, 2005 Welcome to Slaw, the co-operative weblog that aims to share information and insights about the intersection of technology and legal research in Canada. This is the first posting, and as such needs to get quickly out of the way to make room for postings of substance. Enjoy, contribute, learn, teach… It’s Slaw. by Simon FoddenSimon Fodden is the founder of Slaw. He taught law at Osgoode Hall Law School for more than 30 years before he retired to focus on writing, publishing, and IT and law. [click on the author's name to go to email and web page links] on July 8th, 2005 Welcome to Slaw, the co-operative weblog that aims to share information and insights about the intersection of technology and legal research in Canada. This is the first posting, and as such needs to get quickly out of the way to make room for postings of substance. Enjoy, contribute, learn, teach… It’s Slaw. 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Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website		Special Projects [ TOROG memos – mapping lawyers] Recent Comments Slaw Linkblog Follow Slaw [ on a mobile – via rss – via email – on twitter ] SlawNET Member Login This week's column is on: Working Tech Open Source Your OS by David WhelanDavid works on information projects for the Law Society of Upper Canada and manages its Great Library. Both a lawyer and librarian, he writes and speaks on law, information, and technology topics. David was formerly with the American Bar Association Legal Technology Resource Center and Cincinnati Law Library Association. [click on the author's name to go to email and web page links] March 15, 2010 Lawyers are asking the wrong question when they wonder whether to upgrade their operating system (OS) to Microsoft Windows 7 or stay at Windows XP or Vista. If you’re upgrading, the question should be what are ALL my options? 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Why Your Company Needs 'Quiet Time' \| The View from Harvard Business \| BNET Many companies are now going back to the days of installing “quiet time,” periods when workers are sequestered from interruptions to focus on the work at hand. NYRblog - Tony Judt on Identity "We are entering, I suspect, upon a time of troubles. It is not just the terrorists, the bankers, and the climate that are going to wreak havoc with our sense of security and stability. Globalization itself—the “flat” earth of so many irenic fantasies—will be a source of fear and uncertainty to billions of people who will turn to their leaders for protection. “Identities” will grow mean and tight, as the indigent and the uprooted beat upon the ever-rising walls of gated communities from Delhi to Dallas." Good and Boring \| Op-Ed Columnist \| NYTimes.com Iceland's meltdown made headlines; the remarkable stability of Canada's banks, not so much.Yet as the world’s attention shifts from financial rescue to financial reform, the quiet success stories deserve at least as much attention as the spectacular failures. We need to learn from those countries that evidently did it right. And leading that list is our neighbor to the north. Right now, Canada is a very important role model. Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock What you're seeing in the industry's reaction to the iPad is nothing less than future shock. For years we've all held to the belief that computing had to be made simpler for the 'average person'. I find it difficult to come to any conclusion other than that we have totally failed in this effort. The iPad and publishers: A survey of early reaction - O'Reilly Radar the device is clearly built for media consumption. Movies, music, books, news -- the bread and butter content that keeps iTunes humming. That's good for Apple, obviously, but it also creates an interesting opportunity for publishers. They've got a new distribution mechanism and a new canvas. Add Slaw Linkblog to your del.icio.us network Subscribe to Slawlinkblog Follow our posts on your mobile Subscribe via RSS: You can subscribe to any or all of the following: the feed for all posts the feed for all comments a feed for a particular category and a feed for posts by a particular author. You can also subscribe to the feed for the comments to any particular post: you will find instructions above the comment entry form after all entries. Subscribe via email: To receive posts: To receive comments: Delivered by FeedBurner Follow Slaw posts on Twitter Here's the title of the most recent post from each of the blogs of Slaw's regular contributors. 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Welcome To Slaw

Welcome To Slaw

by Simon Fodden July 8, 2005