Mmm even did not get to twitter while in Asia. Oh I’ve now got an edisclosure twitter (do follow edisclosure) and also on YouTube. I did find some time to produce a short snappy video for the LegalTechTownHall Questions. My two cents (or pennies) worth video is here.

Maybe one day I will be able to freely tweet and post videos from my mobile phone. Super freely, smarty tweety mobile next?

Here’s a blog-worthy report with the headline: Twitter lands congressman in hot water’. Hot water also for the Pentagon as it is reported to be looking to review its policy regarding the dissemination of potentially sensitive information in the light of new technologies. On the other hand, Twitter gets more funding even without a business model. How about that for the global credit crunch and the bankers!

Will people tweet more and more and blog less and less? Mmm maybe the 78 rpm record player will make a come back too.

On the subject of blogging, arbitrators are now blogging but not using their own blog site but via/under a well know publisher site. Doesn’t sound like blogging to me, still they’re ‘blogs’ and not posted as articles. I’ve not read the ‘blogs’ but have scanned for edisclosure ‘blogs’. Nothing there. I will keep track of the’ blogs’ at Kluwerarbitrationblog.

Two rather blog-worthy news for me came from two sources, one is a book and another is from a lawyer. The book title caught my attention, not the content. The title read: You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can’t Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics (the book is by Ray Comfort ). Isn’t that title something to ponder! I certainly need to think just to read that title!

Less thinking more a creative spark or ingenuity (who knows?!), a certain lawyer certainly knows how to do marketing with a title ‘ RentAJudge ‘. The trade mark site is at rentajudge

The formula for marketing seems to be ‘credit crunch’ + ‘costs’ + ‘ediscovery’ = alternative to alternative dispute resolution (with the exception = no choice litigation).
Well even the ICC is offering training on Amicable Dispute Resolution!
Oh well…

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.