Rule-breakers: the podcast about disruption in digital publishing.<br /><br />Every month, Rule-breakers host, Sean McGrath dives into the fascinating world of digital publishing, exploring how technology is reshaping a very important part of modern life: the way we create and access laws, standards, and guidance.<br />If you’re curious about the forces affecting change in this space, you’re in the right place.
Rule-Breakers
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Rule-breakers: the podcast about disruption in digital publishing.<br /><br />Every month, Rule-breakers host, Sean McGrath dives into the fascinating world of digital publishing, exploring how technology is reshaping a very important part of modern life: the way we create and access laws, standards, and guidance.<br />If you’re curious about the forces affecting change in this space, you’re in the right place.
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Recent Episodes
June 2, 2026
Ep #15: From digital books to digital agents: Edd Wilder-James on the Evolution of Structured Information
Edd Wilder-James joins us in this episode for a wide-ranging conversation that begins in the early XML and SGML communities and stretches all the way to today’s AI-driven world. Along the way, we revisit the rise of pivotal standards such as DocBook, HTML and DITA. Edd and Sean discuss the unique culture of the structured document markup conferences that brought together technologists, publishers, academics, and information architects from radically different disciplines ranging from hi-tech engineering to the liberal arts.<br /><br />Edd reflects on the optimism and intellectual energy of that era, including debates around standards, schemas, hypermedia, and the Semantic Web, while also acknowledging some of the orthodoxy and “tech tribalism” that shaped those communities. The discussion explores how ideas from SGML, HyTime, RDF, and structured publishing continue to resurface in modern systems, often under different names.<br /><br />The conversation also looks at the Big Data (Hadoop) era in the formative years of cloud computing, the evolution of open-source ecosystems at Google and Microsoft including his current work at GitHub around Copilot and large-scale agentic AI systems.<br /><br />Throughout the episode, Edd offers a thoughtful perspective on recurring patterns in computing: the tension between elegant models and practical systems, the repeated reinvention of timeless old ideas, and the enduring importance of context when interpreting information.<br /><br />
April 27, 2026
Ep #14: Information Architecture and Structured Documents in an AI world
In this episode, Sean McGrath sits down with Alex Smith, Global Product Lead for Knowledge, Search, and AI at iManage, to unpack what’s really happening at the intersection of AI and the world of legal practice.<br /><br />With a career spanning nearly two decades at LexisNexis, leading innovation at Reed Smith, and now shaping AI-driven knowledge systems at iManage, Alex brings a rare, perspective on how legal information actually works, and why many people misunderstand it.<br /><br />Sean and Alex explore the evolution of digital information from CD-ROM publishing to today’s AI-powered knowledge management systems, the enduring importance of structured data, and why “IA before AI” – Information Architecture before Artificial Intelligence - might be the most important consideration for anyone building legal knowledge management systems with modern AI tools. Along the way, they tackle hallucinations, trust in citations, knowledge graphs, and the gap between what today’s AI can realistically generate and what legal professionals can safely rely on being accurate.<br /><br />This is a deep dive into the infrastructure behind legal knowledge—and why the future of AI in the world of law depends less on better and better AI LLMs models, and more on the quality of the information we feed to these models.<br /><br />
March 23, 2026
Ep #13: Identity, security and privacy - with digital identity pioneer, Eve Maler
In this episode of Rule Breakers, Sean McGrath sits down with Eve Maler, a pioneer in digital identity and a long standing member of the XML community who was influential in shaping XML itself, based on her expertise in its predecessor SGML.<br />Eve has accumulated decades of experience shaping the digital identity landscape, from her role in developing the XML-based SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) to today’s User Managed Access (UMA) OAuth extensions.<br />Eve shares insights into why authorization—not identity—is now the frontier of innovation, and how emerging models empower users to define and manage access to their own data online.<br />This episode is both a historical journey and glimpse into the frontier of digital identity where traditional person/role-centric authentication/authorisation meets fast moving world of autonomous Agentic AI.<br /><br />
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