theorywatch

“Integrating Information lifecycles” redux, courtesy of this article from Law.com about “RAM discovery”:

“If temporary or ephemeral information is not routinely retained, the emerging common law principle is that the requesting party must take effective affirmative action, including, when necessary, the seeking of a preservation order, to require that a producing party place transitory information into a form from which production can later be made.”

Adaptive structuration, anyone? (Note: this Lego set of Anthony Giddens in his study is not from an official Lego site.)