Weblogs and Income. In a brand-new paper for the upcoming Blogtalk, Trevor Cook suggests that bloggers won't be able to make much money from their weblogs. “Only a few bloggers seem to have any serious prospect of generating enough revenue to be able to provide journalism outside the constraints of corporate media.” This seems plausible.… Continue reading Weblogs and Income

Previewing Firm360. One of the fun things I've been able to do this year, even though I usually can't write about it, is to get the grand tour of some new legal tech programs and services that are still in beta testing. Thanks to Doug Hoover and Kyle Christensen I got a Webex look at… Continue reading Previewing Firm360

Methodology + Technology = Productivity. It’s easy to buy the latest and greatest in technology, but that does not guarantee a boost in productivity. Without a method for its effective use, the potential benefit of a new technology will be limited. Technology might even get in the way. It's important to distinguish the difference between… Continue reading Methodology + Technology = Productivity

Backpack Launches: A new breed of personal (and business) information manager. Backpack is live. Head on over and check it out. We’ve started assembling some reviews and mentions (that’s a public Backpack page). Thanks again for everyone’s patience, support, and feedback during the development process. We know the hype was heavy. We hope we’ve delivered.… Continue reading Backpack Launches: A new breed of personal (and business) information manager

Tiger Talk. If you saw Angela's post from Friday night, then you probably figured out that we did get the upgrade to Tiger installed on her eMac, and you probably know how much fun she was having with Dashboard widgets. It was a pretty painless upgrade, and once she went to bed Friday night, I… Continue reading Tiger Talk

Fixing Ruby on OS X Tiger. Apple has done a great thing by including Ruby 1.8.2 in OS X 10.4, but unfortunately they stumbled just as they were to cross the finish line. Tiger has some deficiency that prevents it from installing native extensions properly. But there is quick room for remedy. You can either… Continue reading Fixing Ruby on OS X Tiger

Upgraded to Tiger. I just upgraded my PowerBook to Tiger tonight and so far so good–everything just runs (I did the “upgrade” path as opposed to starting fresh or doing the “archive and install” option) including Dreamweaver, Eclipse, and even JRun/CF. The Dashboard widgets are really slick, the Mail improvements are very nice, and Spotlight… Continue reading Upgraded to Tiger

Tiger/Safari In-Browser PDF Viewing. This may seem like a minor feature, but I absolutely hate PDFs. (No offense to our future Adobe overlords.) The new in-browser viewing of PDFs in Safari is really nice and greatly reduces my negative feelings about PDFs. If you click on a PDF link on a web site, it loads… Continue reading Tiger/Safari In-Browser PDF Viewing

Tiger: Spotlight and EXIF. According to Apple, Spotlight is supposed to be able to index EXIF data. Unfortunately, none of my JPEGs’ EXIF data has been indexed. Even worse, some of the Spotlight metadata fields are obviously bogus, showing obvious bugs in Spotlight’s implementation. Update 2: It’s definitely a two-pass thing. After leaving my laptop… Continue reading Tiger: Spotlight and EXIF