Articles by Dean Mason:

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Putting information on the map
Monday, 3rd September 2012

According to an article in Technology Review earlier this year, we are very much in the midst of the “indoor positioning era”.  GPS has permeated its way in into our day-to-day lives by allowing us to effectively navigate and add value to the outside physical space.  It was inevitable that at some point someone would ask the question: why can’t we do the same with indoor space?

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Paywalls and intelligence gathering
Wednesday, 29th August 2012

Paywalls have implications for those involved in press monitoring and intelligence gathering. 10 years ago it was possible for users to search comprehensively across content using a single third-party service, but what has changed?

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Is content becoming anti-social?
Wednesday, 18th July 2012

There are more newspapers than ever before putting their digital content behind paywalls, particularly as there is evidence to suggest this may provide some mitigation to their flagging print sales. This no doubt offers some relief to the media industry, but as a result we seem to be moving backwards.

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Key challenges for legal ebooks
Tuesday, 17th July 2012

Jean O'Grady's recent article on The Future of eBooks in Law Firms provides an excellent overview of the legal ebook market. She raises some key issues that are perhaps holding back the proliferation of legal ebooks in law firms. It could be argued that by coming up with the answers could result a "Kindle moment" for this sector.

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Visualising your emails
Wednesday, 4th July 2012

The average workplace email inbox will often see several hundred emails pouring in daily, but a recent study notes that "nearly two-thirds" of these emails "are nonessential". So how can we better manage and not get distracted by emails that are unimportant, but will need our attention at a later stage?