Month: January 2006

Digital Domain: Hey, Baby Bells: Information Still Wants to Be Free. The digital lifestyle I see portrayed so alluringly in ads is not possible when the Internet plumbing in our homes is as pitiful as it is. By RANDALL STROSS. [NYT > Technology]

Humpty Dumpty Metadata. The big problem with LiveJournal (and again, it's not so much a problem as an omission) is a problem shared by all the other blogging services/utilities I've tested: There's no standard vocabulary for tagging. Everybody makes up a personal tagging vocabulary (idiodically called a “folksonomy” even thought it takes more than one… Continue reading Humpty Dumpty Metadata

Dr. Who on Sci-Fi Channel. Good news — the Sci-Fi Channel has licensed the broadcast rights to the new Dr. Who series from the BBC. Goofy announcement and all. One of the good things about living in the Pacific Northwest is that we get CBC on cable, and CBC shows Dr. Who approximately the same… Continue reading Dr. Who on Sci-Fi Channel

GTD 2006.9: No rest will dumb you down. One of the best productivity tips I know is getting enough rest. Rest is not just sleep – although odds are good that its been way to long since you had a full night's sleep. Rest means spending time with friends, going to a ball game, taking… Continue reading GTD 2006.9: No rest will dumb you down

CEO Rules Paul Craig Roberts: “Americans need to ask themselves if the White House is in competent hands when a $70 billion war becomes a $2 trillion war… Any financial officer anywhere in the world whose project was 2,857% over budget would instantly be fired for utter incompetence.”  [John Robb's Weblog]

We Need New Office Software I’ve been spending the last few days trying to clean out my enormous mail box, work on opinion letters and articles, and think about a Big Article on office software I’m working on. All that adds up to this thought: Here I am, looking at all this new office software,… Continue reading We Need New Office Software

KM at Morrison & Foerster. Morrison & Foerster is one of the leading US law firms for creating and developing an innovative and highly effective approach to knowledge management. Last month, Law Technology News published IT @ Morrison & Foerster: Lessons Learned from Retail (free registration required or PDF version at MoFo web site). I… Continue reading KM at Morrison & Foerster

Practice and Process Improvement – Part II. Last November I suggested that in law firms, it was not obvious who should be responsible for practice and process improvement. A new answer may be emerging. Hildebrandt consultant Susan Raridon Lambreth wrote an excellent article, How Do Practice Leaders Get Their Jobs Done and Still Have a… Continue reading Practice and Process Improvement – Part II

RIP, Frederick N. Young. Thoughts and prayers to Joyce, Shirley, Peg, Ann, Mary and the rest of the family.

Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality.  “Don’t start a business if you can’t explain what pain it solves, for whom, and why your product will eliminate this pain, and how the customer will pay to solve this pain. The other day I went to a presentation of six high tech startups and not one of them… Continue reading Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality