According to news reports, Facebook has called an “all hands” meeting today to discuss its privacy policies. That’s because they are facing a brewing revolt among Facebook users alarmed by the company’s cavalier attitude toward protecting your privacy. In recent months, Facebook has rolled out some very privacy-unfriendly practices, from the “privacy transition” that took [...]

The re-tweet is an enormous part of the Twitter experience. Even before official support for the feature from Twitter, people were constantly re-tweeting status updates, links, photos, etc. This allowed Twitter users to see content recommended to them by people they followed, which they may not have originally found. Further, it allowed the person sharing [...]

In our culture, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who is not familiar with the ubiquitous footwear and sportswear company Nike. More than 20 years ago, an ad executive named Dan Wieden came up with the phrase “Just Do It” and that trademark in addition to the Swoosh logo, has become the epitome of a [...]

How Lawyers View Death Death is always a morbid topic, but we’re mortal beings and it’s better to discuss this topic sooner rather than later. As law students we are quite detached from death because we are trained to think of death in legal terms infused with logic and exempt from pathos. In law school, [...]

Here are 5 simple ways to increase your blog traffic. This list is not exhaustive. They are just tips. 1) Always Be Linking – Sharing links to other blogs and useful information will help generate more traffic to your blog. Being a useful resource, and providing links to other bloggers, others will begin linking to [...]

As a part of the ABA Journal’s 24 Hours of Legal Rebels Project Larry Bodine and Rex Gradeless debated whether Twitter was a “Waste of Time or Marketing Goldmine“. Here are some of Larry Bodine’s arguments and my responses. Let me know what you think below. LARRY: Twitter was a fun while it lasted, but [...]

Twitter and lawyers. Those two words in the same sentence have recently begun to stir up quite a controversy on and off-line. I really had to pause, pry my fingers from the keyboard and think about where I fit within the spectrum of people who utilize the medium, especially as an attorney. I’ve been reading [...]

One more legal blog drank the New York Times Social Media Fear Kool Aid [link redacted] so now we’re posting about this. (Alternate title: New York Times Shoots the Messenger in Fact Finding Failure) Recently, the New York Times published an article related to social media use conflicting with the rules of the bar. The [...]

Laura Hodes had an interesting commentary piece last week concerning the upcoming Gwendolyn & Co. v. Blacconiere case, wherein a beauty school is suing some of its students for comments they wrote on a private Facebook account. You can read the complaint here. The students wanted a place to collectively vent about their school’s teachers, [...]

What is Behavioral Advertising? Behavioral Advertising is when advertisers use information gathered from cookies placed on a user’s website and information gathered from user’s public profiles to target a user with a specific advertisement. Numerous websites sell their user’s public information or place cookies on user’s computers to track users and their buying behavior. Advertisers [...]