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"How Do Lawyers Get Their Information?"

This post was written by Simon Fodden: "There's an interesting little post on Tim Bray's blog, Ongoing, entitled "The Listening Engine." Bray, one of the bloggers I've been following for years now, is the Canadian software developer and entrepreneur who co-founded Open Text Corporation and who is now the Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems. He's thoughtful, sensible.

In The Listening Engine he puzzles over how it is that RSS and Twitter are resources that some people simply don't make use of...

He muses that we may be seeing a simple stratification in society into two layers: those who are well-informed because of their "intensity of listening," to use his phrase, and those who are not...

Continue reading this thought-provoking post and reach the active links by clicking on the author's name. While you are there, check out the comments section for additional thoughts on the topic.

Source: Slaw.ca, 10 February 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on February 12, 2010 (boomark / email).