Whit Andrews

If you have some experience with the Google Search Appliance, or the Mini, then I would be grateful to talk to you – or trade emails – about your experience. If you’re willing, I might blog the exchange, at least a bit – or not, if you’d prefer not. I would incorporate it (without names [...]

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I’ve been trying to hash out the value of twitter. Good example is Rob Robinson’s ComplexD twitter stream, which is prolific but engaging. Easy to scan it regularly and see what’s in it; quick clear statements of value on the other side of the tiny click. Eventually one is likely to say, Hmm, Who is [...]

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Howdy y’all. I’m off to San Francisco in May to keynote (has such a nice ring to it as a verbified word, “keynote”) the Mark Logic User Conference 2009. Mark Logic’s all about snipping content into little bitty pieces tricked out with metadata and then putting them back together like Mister Potatohead or Spore (which [...]

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If you don’t believe content gets reduced to components, don’t look at what the New York Times is doing, because it’s important not to jostle mistaken expectations or they curdle. We’ve written a pile of research on content components.

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Crouthamel: Katrina was a test for us. We had thousands of pieces of litigation, but with the decreasing storage costs and improved search tools, it makes sense to keep these in a general system. In our core business units, we archive 100% of their email.
Some documents must be held 25 years. Going to that, none [...]

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Hedges: Nothing would change, because you would still have 2% to argue about.
Smith: You would have to sell it to a judge. You would have to convince the judge.
Hedges: You would have to convince the former me about this. I was a judge, and I would appoint my own expert. Each side would have its [...]

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To the extent that you can eliminate information that is clearly not valuable early, the better off you are. Imagine you have a pyramid: You can almost always talk people out of asking for all the documents at the bottom of the pyramid.
Tombleson: The judge in a UK case got into the granularity of the [...]

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Matt Clarke laughed, “Wanted: Lawyers must have pulse. Please show up by five o’clock.”

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Stephen Hawking: Can lawyers rely on keyword search any more?
Craig Ball [badly transcribed but the essence captured]: The way I look at Victor Stanley, the hyperbole of Judge Facciola found itself re-expressed as this: You need to be qualified to engage in search, and you need to have Quality Assurance and quality control, and you [...]

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