Most of what I write about, however unlikely the starting point, brings you back to electronic discovery / e-disclosure sooner or later. Even I, however, can find no such connection for what I am about to point you to. I don’t mind, and I do not think that you will either.

The first mental draft of this post extended to a survey of the range of topics which I squeeze into here ancillary to or as illustrations of e-disclosure points. I will skip them all bar one, and perhaps come back to the rest another day.

The surviving link is the use of Twitter as a source of both information and contacts. As you will have gathered, I see it as a marketing tool of immense potential as well as a significant challenge to traditional lines of communication between lawyers (or any provider of goods and services) and their clients.  Leaving all that on one side today, have a look at this amazing set of photographs which juxtapose scenes from post-invasion of Normandy in 1944 and the same views today.

They are fascinating in their own right. It is also interesting, to me at least, to trace how they reached you. Going backwards, the immediate delivery came about because you read this post and clicked on the link. I found them because a member of the Posse List referred to them. The Posse List is a loose collective of lawyers and eDiscovery people; I follow them and they follow me on Twitter which is how their link showed up on my screen.

The Posse List member who passed on the link (“Re-tweeted” in Twitter parlance) picked it up from a tweet by Cloe Willaerts a marketing manager in Belgium and I found the collection about ten hours after Cloe drew attention to it. I am personally acquainted with none of those above me in this information chain. The photographs are, as it happens, irrelevant to my business and yours, but the same technology is now bringing me more information – useful, and interesting information at that – about e-disclosure and e-discovery than I can read, let alone pass on. That is fine – it forces me to focus on the ones that matter, and for every one which I spend time on, skimming ten others has added something to my knowledge.

As so often, Tom Lehrer is an invaluable source of commentary on matters of this kind. His song I got it from Agnes clearly anticipated Twitter, notwithstanding that it was written in 1954 (what else did you think it is about?).

I got it from Agnes
She got it from Jim
We all agree it must have been
Louise who gave it to him

Now she got it from Harry
Who got it from Marie
And ev’rybody knows that Marie
Got it from me

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