What amazes me is just how far this has come between the time we started preparing the material for the Kentucky Bar Association program in the early summer months, and the time we gave the final presentation last week. There was not much law on the impact of social media and social networking, at the time we started. In fact, there were not even that many articles about it.

Now, there is an avalanche of articles, studies, white papers, seminars, podcasts, etc., and there is a rapidly growing number of LinkedIn and Facebook groups devoted to subsets of this, in addition to the usual SEO folks and instant experts who pop up with any apparent gold rush.

The law is typically very slow to catch up with such social changes and it will be an even greater challenge now, since the legislative and judicial systems have not substantially changed over the last few decades, while the rest of society rapidly slips from the Web 2.0 world into Web 3.0 and beyond. What was science fiction just a year or so ago is now actually in beta or on eBay.