Author: Vince Kimball

Two New Law Blogs. Corplawblawg offers Information for lawyers practicing corporate securities and M&A law. BizLawTech aims “to serve as the source of information and best practices in business and technology law for our students, and attorneys….”  [via Inter Alia] I don't know if either has RSS feeds; I wasn't able to open load either of those… Continue reading Two New Law Blogs

Unsuspecting Computer Users Relay Spam. More than 200,000 computers worldwide have been hijacked with a technique that lets spammers send billions of junk e-mails. By Saul Hansell. [New York Times: Technology]

Blogs for Business / Blogs for Lawyers. My “blogs for business” presentation to an organization of entrepeneurs and consultants Saturday in Washington was enthusiastically received. I began with the thesis that the overwhelming number of poor web logs had led most people to seriously underestimate the possibilities for use of blogs in businesses. I then went on to explore the potential of… Continue reading Blogs for Business / Blogs for Lawyers

Chandler for Higher Ed Gets a Go Ahead. We recently presented our vision of a version of Chandler, called Westwood, for higher education to a consortium of schools… [Mitch Kapor's Weblog]

Broadband Growth Seen Slowing. High-speed Internet adoption, although still steadily on the rise, is not growing at the torrid rates of the recent past, according to a new study. One reason: most experienced Net users already have signed up. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]

Top 10 Tenets Of Principled Computing. Top 10 Tenets Of Principled Computing I am not a Microsoft hater, Macintosh zealot, or Linux nerd. I do, however, believe in principled computing. My law office uses multiple operating systems and multiple applications, some open source, some not. I care more about how my data is formatted and… Continue reading Top 10 Tenets Of Principled Computing

Relation Browsers: a GUI for IAs. Garry Marchioni and Ben Brunk have been working on GUIs for visualizing nodes and relations in web sites – what they call a Relation Browser. They've published a paper on their work about the quest for a General Relation Browser that provides a picture of IA tools of the… Continue reading Relation Browsers: a GUI for IAs

Connections to Broadband Increase 50%. The number of American households that connect to the Internet via high-speed, or broadband, connections grew by 50 percent in the last year. By Susan Stellin. [New York Times: Technology]

BBC on Disney's Celebration town. Very good BBC Radio documentary on Celebration, the New Urbanist town that Disney built adjascent to Walt Disney World. How would the world look if it were run by the Disney corporation? In the alligator-infested swamps of Florida is a town built and founded by Disney. Celebration was founded in… Continue reading BBC on Disney's Celebration town

As Google Goes, So Goes the Nation. A high place in Google's search rankings can have considerable value for commercial sites and a lot of clout in the marketplace of ideas. By Geoffrey Nunberg. [New York Times: Technology]