Knowledge AforethoughtThinking about how legal knowledge workers collect and then connect the dots.A better kind of wave- December 31, 2004 As we end 2004 and start 2005, it's heartening to see how quickly people in general and Americans in particular have responded to the disaster caused by the tsunami in India, Sri Lanka, and all around that region. According to the American Red Cross, by Wednesday it had received about $18 million in donations to its International Response Fund in the three days since the waves struck. From all I've read and seen, a lot more will be needed. The American Red Cross, with its links to local Red...http://knowledgeaforethought.blogs.com/knowledge_aforethought/2004/12/a_better_kind_o.html Before you go paperless ...- December 21, 2004 Last week's USA Weekend magazine ran an interview entitled Computer Counselor featuring Kelly Chessen. She's a psychologist now working as a "data crisis counselor" at DriveSavers in Novato, California. Kelly used to work at a suicide prevention hotline ... and maybe she still does. An article posted on the DriveSavers site describes her job as comforting poor souls whose computers have been melted in fires, dropped into rivers, run over by cars and in one case, shot. "Sometimes..http://knowledgeaforethought.blogs.com/knowledge_aforethought/2004/12/before_you_go_p.html Making the Top 10!- December 6, 2004 Thanks to Joy London for including Knowledge Aforethought in her list of favorite U.S. "blawgs" (those are blogs written by, directed at, or somehow related to lawyers; I confess I'm one of them) in an article just posted in the December 2004 issue of Legal IT. Actually, she lists nine U.S.-based blawgers, but if you place her in Allen & Overy's NYC office and add her own blog, I've made a Top Ten list! (See how that lawyer training comes in handy, when you need to rationalize a...http://knowledgeaforethought.blogs.com/knowledge_aforethought/2004/12/making_the_top_.html Way, Way Beyond Crayons- December 4, 2004 Wecome to new blogger, Nick Duffill and his Beyond Crayons blog, which focusing on "mind mapping" tools for visualizing information. His tag line is "Businesslike visualization for late adopters." Nick's initial post, Time for reform in mapping legislation, compared common problems seen in PowerPoint presentations to similar information design issues in mind mapping. Here's a taste of his excellent insights: ... the threshold at which decoration interferes with content is...http://knowledgeaforethought.blogs.com/knowledge_aforethought/2004/12/way_way_beyond_.html |