Month: January 2004

Strategy and Technology to Support Law Firm Growth.  Ron Friedmann's post entitled Strategy and Technology to Support Law Firm Growth has some interesting ideas on the relationship between technology and law firm growth. Here's an excerpt: [A]t minimum, firms should think through how to improve the service they provide using technology. Options that could help… Continue reading Strategy and Technology to Support Law Firm Growth

Nick Bradbury: “Shareware developers are losing enormous amounts of money to piracy.” [Scripting News]

Technology Review: Fiber Optics Takes the Long Way Home. An odd mix of public utilities, small telephone companies, and real estate developers are backing the new technology. Their resources are miniscule compared with those of the corporate behemoths that provide telephone and cable television service in urban and suburban America. Yet the giants are doing… Continue reading Fiber Optics Takes the Long Way Home

Scottish Parliament has 'failed to benefit' 75 per cent of Scots – poll. The full scale of public disillusionment with devolution was laid bare yesterday as a new survey showed that three quarters of the population do not think the Scottish Parliament has benefited them. [The Scotsman]

The challenges of synching. I predicted the other day that synching would appear in lots of newsreaders in 2004. (Some have it already, yes, but they don’t have it as I’ve defined it below.) A good question would be: why isn’t synching already a feature of every newsreader already? It can’t be that hard, right—just… Continue reading The challenges of synching

Wes Felter says that the new top level domain, dot-name, started off with the right idea, but then morphed to be just like all TLDs. Wes explains the right idea: you can't buy smith.name, but you can buy john.smith.name. This is even neater than the idea I discussed yesterday. Read the comments there, good stuff,… Continue reading Wes Felter says

Vint Cerf: “The internet is a reflection of our society and that mirror is going to be reflecting what we see,” he said. “If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.” [Adam Curry's Weblog]

Trends to Watch in 2004.  Here are my views of trends to watch in 2004. I choose the word “trend” intentionally because, as Yogi Berra said, making predictions is hard, especially about the future. Regular readers of my blog know that I focus on the strategic use of technology and not technology per se.  … Continue reading Trends to Watch in 2004

Online Services Update.  I recently came across a very well-done white paper, Online Strategies for Law Firms 2004, on online legal services by Charles Christian, Editor & Publisher, Legal Technology Insider. It provides an insightful analysis of the current state of online legal services, especially in the UK.   Christian discusses three strategies firms can… Continue reading Online Services Update