Comments for Finding Legal Information http://fli.canadalawbook.ca Finding and Managing Legal Information on the Internet Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:17:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Consuming Social Media with Search and Hootsuite by Jeremy @ Hypoallergenic Detergent http://fli.canadalawbook.ca/2012/02/01/consuming-social-media-with-search-and-hootsuite/comment-page-1/#comment-50676 Jeremy @ Hypoallergenic Detergent Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:17:24 +0000 http://fli.canadalawbook.ca/?p=6180#comment-50676 " Using search to mine the information allows you to consume information that is being shared openly without having to worry about confidentiality, privacy, or disclosure of representation breaches." I can see the potential benefits of this application, but I feel that it may infringe on the privacy of some social media users. While these information is publicly available, some social media users just lack the technical know how to limit this information to just their friends alone. Well, this method sure ensures your personal privacy, but seems to barge into the "private spaces" of other users. ” Using search to mine the information allows you to consume information that is being shared openly without having to worry about confidentiality, privacy, or disclosure of representation breaches.”

I can see the potential benefits of this application, but I feel that it may infringe on the privacy of some social media users. While these information is publicly available, some social media users just lack the technical know how to limit this information to just their friends alone.

Well, this method sure ensures your personal privacy, but seems to barge into the “private spaces” of other users.

]]> Comment on What If You Can’t Find a Free Version of Your Case? by David Whelan http://fli.canadalawbook.ca/2012/01/10/what-if-you-cant-find-a-free-version-of-your-case/comment-page-1/#comment-50652 David Whelan Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:22:41 +0000 http://fli.canadalawbook.ca/?p=6160#comment-50652 True enough. I was thinking more of the one-off free case hunting that many lawyers, law students, paralegals, and librarians do. There are obviously many paid options as well! True enough. I was thinking more of the one-off free case hunting that many lawyers, law students, paralegals, and librarians do. There are obviously many paid options as well!

]]> Comment on What If You Can’t Find a Free Version of Your Case? by Steven Reynolds http://fli.canadalawbook.ca/2012/01/10/what-if-you-cant-find-a-free-version-of-your-case/comment-page-1/#comment-50646 Steven Reynolds Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:28:12 +0000 http://fli.canadalawbook.ca/?p=6160#comment-50646 You can always just contact a third-party legal research and writing service provider such as Research Associates – www.legalresearchexperts.com. These types of providers can provide this information to you with amazing turn around time. You can always just contact a third-party legal research and writing service provider such as Research Associates – http://www.legalresearchexperts.com. These types of providers can provide this information to you with amazing turn around time.

]]> Comment on Turn Your Bookmarks Into Pearls by in english by PED - Pearltrees http://fli.canadalawbook.ca/2011/01/10/turn-your-bookmarks-into-pearls/comment-page-1/#comment-50638 in english by PED - Pearltrees Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:47:09 +0000 http://fli.canadalawbook.ca/?p=4502#comment-50638 [...] Turn Your Bookmarks Into Pearls « Finding Legal Information: A Blog About Finding Law and Legal Inf... [...] [...] Turn Your Bookmarks Into Pearls « Finding Legal Information: A Blog About Finding Law and Legal Inf… [...]

]]> Comment on What to Do About Content Farms and Your Search by David Whelan http://fli.canadalawbook.ca/2011/02/18/what-to-do-about-content-farms-and-your-search/comment-page-1/#comment-32272 David Whelan Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:10:04 +0000 http://fli.canadalawbook.ca/?p=4912#comment-32272 I'm not sure it does. Information literacy requires more analysis than, frankly, even most information professionals are willing to engage in on a regular basis. We rely more heavily on known sources and less on the process content goes through to be available through that source. It's like getting an update to a legal text. It's got a known publisher and an author's name on it, and we have confidence in the text because of that, but we don't actually know the author had any hand in the update that we're filing and we don't regularly go and verify what the update says. How the content gets online is probably less important than how useful or accurate it is. It's kind of like food: unless you can give me easy terms - like organic or fair trade or source labels - I don't really have the subject expertise to know a particular avocado came by truck or train or boat. And I don't think terms like "content farm" are exact enough to help an information consumer know a good site from a bad one. In most cases, people want answers and so long as they have confidence in the Web site providing the content, how that Web site created it - and what other people label that site - is probably not very important. I’m not sure it does. Information literacy requires more analysis than, frankly, even most information professionals are willing to engage in on a regular basis. We rely more heavily on known sources and less on the process content goes through to be available through that source. It’s like getting an update to a legal text. It’s got a known publisher and an author’s name on it, and we have confidence in the text because of that, but we don’t actually know the author had any hand in the update that we’re filing and we don’t regularly go and verify what the update says. How the content gets online is probably less important than how useful or accurate it is. It’s kind of like food: unless you can give me easy terms – like organic or fair trade or source labels – I don’t really have the subject expertise to know a particular avocado came by truck or train or boat. And I don’t think terms like “content farm” are exact enough to help an information consumer know a good site from a bad one. In most cases, people want answers and so long as they have confidence in the Web site providing the content, how that Web site created it – and what other people label that site – is probably not very important.

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