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Laura Owen – The Tech Evolution: Change or Die. Laura Owen of Cisco gave one of the best presentations I attended last year. She covers some of the same themes in her excellent new article called “The Tech Evolution: Change or Die,” which is absolutely required reading for (1) any law firm doing any planning… Continue reading Laura Owen – The Tech Evolution: Change or Die

Who REALLY protects the Internet?. This morning I read an interesting post in which Susan says that in response to a 10 year old's question of “Who protects the Internet?”, her response is “I would argue that we all do.” Susan always looks on the bright side of things. I, on the other hand, look… Continue reading Who REALLY protects the Internet?

Useit.Com: Reviving Advanced Hypertext. The Web really has only one feature: uni-directional plain links that replace the existing page with a new one. Yes, the feature has twists, such as the ability to go back or open the link in a new window, but fundamentally, the Web has no advanced hypertext capabilities. [Tomalak's Realm]

Battling the antibodies Open source, for example, has made many technical innovations, but arguably its greatest contribution is process innovation: transparency, global collaboration, the architecture of participation. In Microsoft's resistance to these ideas — notably the famous “open source is a virus” riff — you can see the antibodies swarming. What most fascinates me about… Continue reading Battling the antibodies

Unsung heroes of open source. When my e-mails to vendors went unanswered, I turned to open source. A Google query for “sourceforge vx4400” yielded this first result: “Welcome to BitPim.” On the BitPim project site, I found not only sync software for Windows, Linux, and OS X, but also a wealth of useful documentation, including… Continue reading Unsung heroes of open source

ATPM reviews MarsEdit. Wes Meltzer reviewed MarsEdit 1.0 for About This Particular Macintosh. It got a “Very Nice” rating—which is nothing to sneeze at for a 1.0. And there’s some great feedback in there we can use for future development. (Oh, heck, of course we wanted an “Excellent” rating—but, hey, even Delicious Library got a… Continue reading ATPM reviews MarsEdit

A Year of Getting Things Done: Part 3, The Future of GTD?. This is the final installment of a three-part series looking back on a year of doing Getting Things Done. Part 1: The Good Stuff; Part 2: The Stuff I Wish I Were Better At. Over the year or so that I’ve been working… Continue reading A Year of Getting Things Done: Part 3, The Future of GTD?

Veritas to John: “Screw You!”. In a previous post, I mentioned my amazing problem with Veritas Backup Exec 8.6 disabling my fully legal working copy because I had upgraded the OS it was running on to Server 2003. The email exchange with Veritas support showed that it wasn't a bug in their product, but that… Continue reading Veritas to John: “Screw You!”

Wired interview with Bram Cohen. Wired interviews Bram Cohen, the smart dude who gave us BitTorrent. [Ceejbot]

Make Firefox faster. This article explains how to turn on http pipelining to make Firefox slurp web pages faster. You might not want to do this if you regularly use your browser over a dialup connection. Otherwise, no-brainer. [Ceejbot]