Author: Vince Kimball

Time Investment of Blog vs. Conventional Web Site. A potential lawyer-blogger writes to ask: “Does it take you much longer to keep up your blog than a Web site?” While it is much, much easier to update a blog than a conventional web site, in my experience you wind up spending more time working on a blog. Because… Continue reading Time Investment of Blog vs. Conventional Web Site

Mighell & Pacifici On Virtual Communities/Blogs. Tom Mighell & Sabrina Pacifici's presentation from ABA Techshow 2003 is available at LLRX.com. It is an MS PowerPoint slide show converted to PDF (about 4 Mb).  One of their more interesting suggestions is that web logs make good internal tools for law firms to discuss cases, evidentiary issues and so… Continue reading Mighell & Pacifici On Virtual Communities/Blogs

SJ Mercury: Dean puts Web into campaign politics. Dan Gillmor. Teachout, 31, heads “Internet outreach'' for a campaign that is rewriting some of the rules of politics. Dean's team isn't the first to use new media in a national race. However, more than any previous campaign, the people running this one truly get the meaning… Continue reading Dean puts Web into campaign politics

Seattle Times (thanks Rajesh).  Introducing the Tango.  Electric.  Top speed of 130 mph.  0-60 mph in 4 seconds.  80 mi per charge.  3 hr recharge.  Mass produced at ~$20k. Engineers and executives at GM's Research and Technology Division, ecstatic when they first saw the Tango, tentatively offered parts at cost, distribution through a GM dealer… Continue reading Tango

The New Generation Web Design. I was just reading this article about the Fahrner Image Replacement technique and I realized that we're really entering into a cool new era of the web. If you haven't bought into the religion of CSS, then you really need to check out the CSSZenGarden which I've linked to before.… Continue reading The New Generation Web Design

MS-NBC – Who profits from spam? Surprise. Many companies with names you know are benefiting There wouldn't be spam if there wasn't money in spam. So to understand what primes the spam economy, MSNBC.com answered a single unsolicited commercial e-mail. Following this one spam trail led us from Alabama to Argentina, from a tiny Birmingham-based… Continue reading MS-NBC

New version of Web Album Generator. Yeah they released a new version, which according to the site “addresses user requests”. I'll have to download and give it a spin sometime soon! Thanks to Andy for the link. [Life of a one-man IT department]

Somerville Hot Zone. Michael Oh et al try to bring business-sponsored Wi-Fi to larger area: The notion is that a number of businesses underwrite the nominal cost as a factor in bringing more customers into the area as a whole. Businesses don't charge customers for air conditioning, Michael Oh says, so why charge for Wi-Fi?… Continue reading Somerville Hot Zone

Book superstores face new rivals The bitter fight in the bookselling industry used to be one between the two superstore chains, Borders and Barnes & Noble, and the many independent bookstores that see the superstores stealing their business. But now there's a new force that threatens both the big chains and independents alike: big discount merchandisers,… Continue reading

Book superstores face new rivals

The bitter fight in the bookselling industry used to be one between the two superstore chains, Borders and Barnes & Noble, and the many independent bookstores that see the superstores stealing their business. But now there's a new force that threatens both the big chains and independents alike: big discount merchandisers, like Wal-Mart and Costco.

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Laszlo Blogging Widgets – coming soon….. Laszlo Blogging Widget Last month I did a code sprint on a blogging aggregator written in LZX. You can see the results at myLaszlo.com. There's a screenshot on this page. The aggregator was based on a suggestion by Marc Canter. It's a widget intended for the gutter of a… Continue reading Laszlo Blogging Widgets – coming soon….