Sitting here and with all the freedom to click to whatever sites/blogs etc. , I ought to feel great (and grateful) that I don’t get a page telling me ‘Page not available’. Strangely, I feel the break from the online social sites a great mind cleanser or should I say ‘data cleanser’?

By my (temporarily) cleansed mind, I am not missing much in terms of new found data/information or the ediscovery/edisclosure scenes. What I do recognise or discover is that my data/photos/news and whereabouts are really not everyone’s business at all?! More strangely, other people’s data/photos/news and whereabouts are a constant source of mystery and a rich playground for all kinds of mischief including learning.

Would you rather get a ‘Page not available’ or something mysterious or an obscure/ repeated blogs/stories about someone/something/stuff that isn’t your business at all? Who has the right to determine which data is mine or/and is not everybody’s business? Well…it’s like doing ediscovery/edisclosure, isn’t it?

Whether my data or other people’s data is private or not, it is so good to be able to re-connect with friends again at Facebook.

Many worlds colliding in facebook judging by the number of groups. Oh imagine if (or when) facebook gets meshed up with Google. Just before these two worlds collide, I’ll leave the facebook warning message to me here for future proofing:

Please Read This!
Warning! Your account could be disabled.

Your behaviour indicates that you may be in violation of Facebook’s Terms of Use. Continued misuse of Facebook’s features could result in your account being disabled. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page.

How cool !

Want to know the heart of the issue in ediscovery? It’s not about the ediscovery rules/laws or about judges. To hear one world view, see the interview conducted by IT Business Edge. Like in facebook, people enjoy creating different world views and the real fun starts when two worlds collide like me and the facebook creator/owner.

I dread to imagine my world when Google and facebook becomes ONE.

When I said ‘old’ it’s over 20+ years aged Sony TV. Still working fine except the remote sensor is not working. Anyhow I cancelled my TV licence yesterday via e-mail and wasn’t too sure what I need to do to ‘disconnect’ my set. Phew! I am glad it’s a simple disconnect of cables from my set (to ‘show’ that I won’t be using my TV for recording or receiving programmes). Amazing…it’s not something I imagine doing i.e. disconnecting my TV…sounds rather weird in this age of gadgets and the likes.

Maybe soon the ‘TV’ set (like my ‘old’ TV) will be revamped or re-classified to be something else to cater for the ‘digital TV’. Will TV still be ‘TV’ and not ‘HD TV or digital TV or something TV’?

Classification sounds easy but is it?

In ediscovery/edisclosure, searching for ESI assumes that the data has a hook or a ‘name’ or being indexed or classified to denote the nature of the ‘data’. As the nature of ‘data’ changes and also the storage of it or the gadgets that hold it changes, classification requires far more imagination than simply throwing out the ‘old’ ( like me cancelling my TV licence via e-mail. Oh! the physical cancellation paper to follow ).

Beyond my TV room, apparently there’s an ongoing trade dispute due to ‘old’ or outdated Informational Technology Agreement (ITA) whereby the ITA is obsolete due to problems with classification of new multifunctional digital devices (like the new digital TV). For old and still relevant news, do check out the report at egov. A pretty long winded article to report on a problem with classification of digital devices, not easy eh?

Will classification of data or ESI become a matter of dispute in the ediscovery space? So far, from the list supplied by Kroll Ontrack Inc. in their ‘Year In Review’ report (the US ediscovery landscape), classification issue is not on their top charts (yet).

I suspect the majority of blog readers/subscribers are aware that the platforms in the clouds such as facebook (e.g. the landmark case in Australia) and twitter (big companies using this to connect and tweet with their customers) are sources of ESI. As mobile technology gets more integrated with these clouds of information the ‘Future Year in Review’ list (like the list compiled by Kroll Ontrack Inc.) will not just be ‘process-oriented’ but also ‘platform-oriented’ or rather infrastructure related. No doubt the question of classification will emerge with the discoverable or reasonably accessible issues like the disputes around the obsolete ITA. It will be tweets against search criteria or algorithm. Now the 140 characters tweets or twitters are surely more accessible than the zillion of e-mails, right? Well…like I say classification sounds easy…

I will invade the twitter dome this year for some fun.