Kennedy-Mighell Report #85: Find it Now, Read it Later

On July 2, 2012, in New Podcasts, by TKMR

We can find almost anything on the Internet. The problem is finding what we’ve already found when we want to find it again. Are there ways to “harvest” the web so we can find and read research at a later time? In this episode, we take a look at ways to store and keep track of what you find in your web research, resources for reading web findings later or when you are offline, and whether techniques like capturing blog posts for reading later on a Kindle or iPad really help us with the problem of information overload.

Link to the episode: Find it Now, Read it Later

Segment 1: Find it Now, Read it Later

Tom uses Pinboard to save bookmarks; Dennis uses Google Bookmarks
To avoid linkrot with your bookmarks, check out AM-Deadlink
Tom’s Research Workflow
- Google Reader – using Mr. Reader on the iPad
- Instapaper (iPad App); Tom’s trying out Pocket (iPad App), which was formerly ReadItLater
- Evernote (iPad App)
Explore using IFTTT (If This, Then That) to move articles from one service to another (i.e., from Google Reader to Evernote, or from Twitter to Instapaper)
Dennis uses Calibre for ebook conversion and management
You can also set up Instapaper to send articles to your Kindle each day or week
We’re creating a LinkedIn Group called Evernote for Lawyers, to share best practices for using Evernote. The group is invite-only, so let us know if you’re interested in an invitation.

Segment 2: The Rant. This week, Tom rants about blog posts where people say technology isn’t changing much about how we practice law.

Segment 3: Parting Shots

Power Searching with Google (note: sign up before 7/10/2012!)
Dave Winer’s podcast on the history of podcasting

Recorded: June 30, 2012

Length: 38:57

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Great show. Info overload is something to which everyone (even Luddite litigators) can relate.

Your discussion about the myriad ways you are each using, processing and consuming information was easy to follow, but gave me chills when I thought about how much eDiscovery agita would be generated if a custodian was similarly sophisticated. Easy to imagine IP litigation, or even copyright infringement ases, forcing some poor schmuck to translate similar activity into a defensible discovery approach (and related 26(g) certification).

I’d be very interested in your views on the eDiscovery aspects of the approaches you described in the show, especially if you see no significant issue(s).

Thanks
- TomMighell
  
  Speaking only for the workflow that I follow (Google Reader –> Instapaper –> Evernote), there are definitely e-Discovery implications for the end of that process, but I don’t really see issues with the first part – using Google Reader is just like browsing the Internet – less likely to have relevant ESI, but Google Reader can hold everything forever, so from a preservation standpoint that shouldn’t be an issue.
  
  Same with Instapaper – once I save research I want to read, it’s being stored in Instapaper forever – it’s another repository where information is being held, but would that publicly-available information be relevant?
  
  To me, the Evernote part of the workflow has the biggest ESI concerns, because you can save ANYTHING to it – not just web pages, but any notes you want to take on your own – written or audio. All data in your Evernote account is kept online, forever, so preservation is not an issue – and the user will have a local copy stored on their computer. Keeping a backup of that data might be a good idea, even though there’s a copy online – so locating the data store on a shared drive should be considered. But to me, the biggest concern is Identification – if lawyers don’t know about something like Evernote, they aren’t likely to ask for it – so the questions for the custodian should be open-ended enough to allow the custodian to remember “that’s right, I’m keeping stuff in Evernote, too.”
  
  Did that answer the question? This isn’t just an e-Discovery issue, there are information governance issues here as well – a lot of things to consider.