How open is OpenSearch?. Last week at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Jeff Bezos announced OpenSearch, an API that enables third parties to inject their own live search results into Amazon's A9.com. I didn't attend ETech this year, but that cloud had a silver lining: I was able to dive right in and do an… Continue reading How open is OpenSearch?
Biggest Complaint Of Blackberries So Far – Interface Lock Up
Biggest Complaint Of Blackberries So Far – Interface Lock Up. For most of the attorneys, the Blackberries are pretty good devices for keeping caught up with emails. There are a few attorneys, however, who really require a robust platform for emails as well as Personal Information Management (PIM) and phone use. The Blackberry is usable… Continue reading Biggest Complaint Of Blackberries So Far – Interface Lock Up
James Madison Online
James Madison Online. The Library of Congress's collection of James Madison's papers is now available in an online archive with 72,000 digital images. [NYT > Books]
52 Leadership Tips- #19
52 Leadership Tips- #19. Don’t Lead via Urgency. Have you ever looked around and noticed that your team was getting nothing done? Or, how about yourself? You know, those very unproductive days, weeks or even months. This can be a natural byproduct of paying too much attention to the urgent, or, leading via urgency! Don’t… Continue reading 52 Leadership Tips- #19
Powerful Quake Jolts the Seabed Near Indonesia
Powerful Quake Jolts the Seabed Near Indonesia. An underwater earthquake struck again off the west coast of Indonesia, sending a ripple of panic across a still traumatized region. By SOMINI SENGUPTA. [NYT > Home Page]
Announcing “Between Lawyers” – An Excellent New Adventure in Blawgland
Announcing “Between Lawyers” – An Excellent New Adventure in Blawgland. Let me join Denise Howell, Tom Mighell, Marty Schwimmer and Ernest Svenson in announcing our new joint blogging adventure called “Between Lawyers.” Thanks to visionary genius and generosity of Hylton Jolliffe at Corante, we have started a group blog that will join the family of… Continue reading Announcing “Between Lawyers” – An Excellent New Adventure in Blawgland
The Wrong Standard
The Wrong Standard. Barron's (reg req): The Most Respected CEOs. (Warren) Buffett is the ultimate example of a CEO who counts — Berkshire Hathaway wouldn't exist without him. Some worrywarts at Barron's were concerned about putting him on the list because of the ongoing investigation into a potentially dubious reinsurance contract that Berkshire's General Re… Continue reading The Wrong Standard
TSA Lied About Protecting Passenger Data
TSA Lied About Protecting Passenger Data. According to the AP: The Transportation Security Administration misled the public about its role in obtaining personal information about 12 million airline passengers to test a new computerized system that screens for terrorists, according to a government investigation. The report, released Friday by Homeland Security Department Acting Inspector General… Continue reading TSA Lied About Protecting Passenger Data
Return of the good Doctor gives BBC a timely 10m-viewer tonic
Return of the good Doctor gives BBC a timely 10m-viewer tonic. THE long-awaited return of Doctor Who pulled in more than 10 million viewers, figures revealed yesterday, bringing a much-needed boost to the BBC's Saturday night television schedules. [The Scotsman]
A church switches to open source and teaches us a lesson
A church switches to open source and teaches us a lesson. The Fellowship Church, the fifth-largest church in the USA, recently switched its Web sites from Microsoft technology to Linux, PHP, PostgreSQL, and Apache. Brian Bailey just laid out the reasons on his blog. Why am I linking to something negative to Microsoft? Well, for… Continue reading A church switches to open source and teaches us a lesson