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Social networking : Signals through the noise for lawyers

By Kevin OKeefe

'Friends May Be the Best Guide Through the Noise' by Brad Stones in this mornings' NY Times is a good read for law firms struggling to understand how an increasing segment of our population get their news and information today. Despite a tidal wave of user generated content, folks are finding the info they want, and arguably need. Though Stones focuses on FriendFeed, a new social networking tool allowing people to follow what their trusted friends are following, the message of following what trusted people are turning you onto, no matter the social networking tool, is the take away. Search engines like Google, so effective for general information hunting, do a poor job of cutting through these thickets of user-generated material. For the Internet-addicted, the problem is further intensified by ?lifecasting? services like Twitter and the Google-owned Jaiku, which let people use their cellphones to fire off Haiku-length text notices, both profound and mundane...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on May 04, 2008 (boomark / email).