The Many Faces of Mike McBride

So far I haven't seen any LR only or LR centric po...

2009-11-06T02:14:52.846-05:00

So far I haven't seen any LR only or LR centric podcasts except for Adobe's LR Killer tips (http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/archives/videos). I see the occasional segment on general photography podcasts but they usually don't cover things like their favorite custom presets or plug-ins.

I just noticed that LR3 beta has a blog, http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/

If you're just starting to learn how to edit photos seriously and heavily, I recommend getting your monitor calibrated. You will inevitably notice that your photos will look different from one monitor to the next. There's nothing worse than to edit a hundred photos on you laptop and then realize that the saturation is way overdone because you edited on your laptop monitor and it is a POS. But, there's no reason to install LR on another computer, just plug in an external monitor.

Just last week "someone" on my team said "this isn...

2009-11-04T19:56:21.847-05:00

Just last week "someone" on my team said "this isn't rocket science". Well, no, I'm not sending anyone to the moon but I sure am saving some from all kinds of messes with my handywork and I guarantee that not everyone can do what I do. :)

Try SplitView2009. One of our attorneys use it to...

2009-10-23T13:22:45.908-04:00

Try SplitView2009. One of our attorneys use it to control how the desktop displays.

Tami, a perfect example of the audience being much...

2009-10-13T13:07:22.052-04:00

Tami, a perfect example of the audience being much less measurable than it used to be. :)

Kev, I know there are some good services out there, but I'm not sure they can ever completely "bring back" all the conversation, and whether I should even care enough to spend that much time implementing one of them. None of the ones I looked at would get Facebook comments from where I pull the RSS feed as Notes, and that's just one example of another place where conversation is happening. Also, there isn't yet any technology that would bring in the face-to-face conversations I had with local people about the post! :)

I'm not sure that it's worth it to try and capture all the historical discussions about any content, on Twitter or elsewhere. Much like the offline world, sometimes if you're not there to be part of the conversation, you really did just miss it. Obviously, it would be nice to have that history, but how far do you have to try and reach out to get it and bring it back? Is it really a valuable use of my time? I don't know that I have answers to that for everyone. It's a personal decision to make that attempt, and as of yet, I haven't felt compelled to do it! :)

Through Twitter and Facebook, you are actively sha...

2009-10-13T08:53:28.462-04:00

Through Twitter and Facebook, you are actively sharing with me. It is easy to dip in and out of those streams during the day and digest new content without stopping my workflow. Example, I can dip into the Twitter stream for a couple of minutes while I wait for a large file to download from the office to my laptop. Through RSS feeds, I have to take the initiative to click my Feeds link and peruse my list. Depending on how long it has been since I've tended to my list, it can be overwhelming. Thanks for sharing with us.

@tamischiller

There are some great services for bringing online ...

2009-10-13T06:28:29.056-04:00

There are some great services for bringing online comments back home to the blog, which I really like, because it does give everyone a frame of reference for the discussion... especially when viewed from the archives, for example. I'm not sure if there is a service that interfaces with Blogger, but Backtype is a great example that has plugins for multiple platforms. Disqus has also integrated this functionality.

Tweets, for example, are a great way to discuss content, but my concern is that - long term - the discussion will disappear. That would be a real shame since I often find that I learn more from the discussion than from the original conversation/post alone.

Great post Mike. I'm right there with you on your...

2009-09-24T11:11:56.147-04:00

Great post Mike. I'm right there with you on your thoughts about effective and efficient technology. As a somewhat related note, I find it interesting that the attorneys that believe that technology should make things easier and faster don't seem to factor in the complexities of their requests. If they had asked for someone to distribute different parts of a 2000 page document to groups of different people all over the world before the advent of email/ftp it would have been a project unto itself taking weeks. Now the expectation is that it should take only a few clicks of the mouse and it should be automatic just because it's electronic. They don't take into consideration file formats, storage sizes, email attachment limitations, etc... We can generally do these tasks inside of a business day compared to the weeks of work it used to take. So yes, technology is an enabler...but it's still work and it still takes time. It's not magic.

Congrats!

2009-09-22T08:08:54.439-04:00

Congrats!

The trouble isn't me using it as much as it's havi...

2009-09-10T17:00:20.686-04:00

The trouble isn't me using it as much as it's having attorney's use it, when I don't control their desktop configuration ahead of time, and don't always know exactly how it will display. Plus, when you use span, and maximize a window, it displays across both screens, that's going to mess people up. lol

it's not that difficult to just use /span as an ad...

2009-09-10T13:29:02.141-04:00

it's not that difficult to just use /span as an addition to the command line? The downside seems to be that this is a lucky guess as to how the screens will be displayed.

What I haven't worked out is how to set the tsgateway settings in remote desktop connections - As I now have sbs2008 clients I can remote directly to the desktops using tsgateway but not from a command line :-(

Interesting you say that - I'm hoping to get on a ...

2009-09-10T13:26:02.329-04:00

Interesting you say that - I'm hoping to get on a Microsoft Exchange 2010 training course that Microsoft are putting out - it's a 3 day event (I'll work from home those days) done completely online. I imagine they'll use livemeeting which does work well for conferences (including automatic advance of powerpoint decks). The advantage for this is that the price is significantly cheaper than a normal 3 day event.
Having said that, they're also doing the event in Columbus - but I'd have to wait until Feb for this (although the first workshop starts in November online)

Rob, Yes, I definitely got the impression from t...

2009-09-10T10:57:30.254-04:00

Rob,

Yes, I definitely got the impression from the presentation that this was a "let's see if this works and whether we can do it" experiment, and I understand the need to do that. Don't really have a problem with it actually, but I think once folks have sort of proven that they can, indeed, do a video webinar, they should make sure they're doing something that makes the video worthwhile.

Other than that, though, the content was excellent, so thanks for putting it together!

Great feedback Mike - and duly noted. We tried to...

2009-09-10T10:29:44.374-04:00

Great feedback Mike - and duly noted. We tried to see if this format worked. We actually discussed doing a recorded version or a live version - the recorded version would have provided some benefit based on the serving up of the content - but we wanted to try the live portion to see how it might work. Obviously, from your perspective, it still may be a little early for primetime live with the Livestream service.

Appreciate your comments - and best/Rob Robinson

Thanks for the nice post Mike! Man, you typed as q...

2009-08-25T08:46:28.586-04:00

Thanks for the nice post Mike! Man, you typed as quickly as we spoke! You got more material that we had on our slides!
Here is the Powerpoint presentation for your interested readers: http://e-discoveryinformation.com/ilta-lit-support-rules/
Cheers!

Thanks for the comments Christine and Craig. I wil...

2009-08-20T13:22:00.789-04:00

Thanks for the comments Christine and Craig. I will, however, question one small aspect of your comment Craig, and knowing what you do, I assume this is not what you meant. I do think it's entirely appropriate to "hire someone" for certain technical tasks. Forensics is certainly a good example of that, as someone with an IT background, but not certified in any forensics field, I'd be the first person to suggest we hire someone to do forensic collection. Certainly an attorney should hire someone to do EDD processing, or production sets, etc. whether that be in-house or an outside vendor. So I'm not convinced any litigation attorney needs to know the exact details of how to do these things. On the other hand, all of this "legal" work can only be done by the rest of us under the supervision of an attorney, and I'm not sure how much supervision there could be if they don't know the first thing about what's happening in the "black box", so to speak. And I don't know how fair to clients it is to hold yourself out to be "expert" when in reality it's the people you hired are the experts. "Pay not attention to the "man behind the curtain", if you will.

It might be more efficient to let the man behind the curtain out to talk to the clients directly, instead of worrying about the lawyer's cloak of expertise.

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! You nailed it in pointing ou...

2009-08-20T03:29:11.033-04:00

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! You nailed it in pointing out that knowledge of some leading cases, the Federal Rules and maybe even some experience with a CLE and a TIFF production do not an expert make. Yet, many of those 200 "experts" and e-discovery "practice chairs" argue that the don't need to know the technology because they can hire someone to handle that. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

I can't tell you how many lawyer experts haven't the slightest idea where to look on a PC to locate a user's local e-mail stores! What they don't understand they dismiss as unimportant or characterize as someone else's concern.

If there's anything I've learned about EDD, it's that you have to know many ways to skin the cat. Too many folks learned one way, and just keep trying to cram everything through that hole. As they say, "if all you've got is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail."

Mike, you couldn't be more right. I'm an eDiscover...

2009-08-19T13:43:58.675-04:00

Mike, you couldn't be more right. I'm an eDiscovery analyst who came out of IT, and I am constantly astonished at the inability of the Legal community to closely involve IT. This is particularly the case at the corporate level where identification, collection and preservation happen. Or DON'T happen depending on how well corporate Legal works with IT. (Which usually is pretty bad.)

Great post from the IT perspective, and makes me realize that I am not alone in banging my head against the wall.

No, there are lots of lawyers who don't do litigat...

2009-08-15T12:03:57.034-04:00

No, there are lots of lawyers who don't do litigation, thus support work for their practice would not be litigation support. Litigation Support is a specialized area of work.

That's fine for the people connected to Exchange, ...

2009-08-15T12:02:17.631-04:00

That's fine for the people connected to Exchange, because we can always extract a mailbox from the Exchange server and not worry about Mac compatibilities. I'm more hoping those without Exchange will use it and not have to try and get email out of mail.app stores. That's kind of a pain. :)

Probably won't happen though.

Mail.app is going to have Exchange support in Snow...

2009-08-14T09:27:01.226-04:00

Mail.app is going to have Exchange support in Snow Leopard, so I doubt there will be serious adoption of Outlook on OS X.

Andrew

Any professional support of non-lawyers to the law...

2009-08-13T12:52:28.390-04:00

Any professional support of non-lawyers to the lawyers on any legal issues is litigation support..am i rite admin

I use Summation for almost everything. Brief Bank...

2009-08-04T13:09:36.571-04:00

I use Summation for almost everything. Brief Bank, Research Database, document management, case management, anything and everything I can use Summation for, I do. I link databases, I split databases (mass emails from the document database) and I love the results I get. I haven't gotten my current boss on board.. but Im working on it. Once he sees how much time is saved from searching through box after box of documents.... Im sure he will be first in line. It's a great tool for most any aspect of a case.

I used PstPassword just last week, actually. I had...

2009-08-04T10:02:07.290-04:00

I used PstPassword just last week, actually. I hadn't used it before and couldn't understand how it worked, but it did so I wasn't going to question it. I actually keep a flash drive on me at all times with all sorts of portable apps, including several things from NirSoft and just about everything from Sysinternals.

And I look very forward to meeting you in person a...

2009-07-28T01:57:26.372-04:00

And I look very forward to meeting you in person at ILTA 09! -Gabe

Thanks for the suggestions, looks like I have some...

2009-07-08T11:52:54.763-04:00

Thanks for the suggestions, looks like I have some app experiments in my future!