The New Issue of Law Practice Today – Wow!. The new issue of Law Practice Today rocks. The theme is the future of law practice and the role of “virual law firms” and there are good articles on legal tech, marketing, management and finance topics. And an RSS feed. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Home Servers – here we come. The Home Server. The Home Server Martin Geddes of Telecopalypse (gotta love that name) saw yesterday's item about home servers and was move to comment. The key word he adds to the discussion is database. Home PCs will become personal database servers. This makes sense from an Always-On perspective. After… Continue reading Home Servers – here we come

How dynamic categories work. In the spirit of the lightweight browser-based solution, I decided to create an equally lightweight server-based version based on Python and libxml2/libxslt. (I'm also working on a slightly heftier, but more powerful variation based on Berkeley DB XML; we'll explore that one next time.) [O'Reilly Network] This article spells out, in… Continue reading How dynamic categories work

O'Reilly covers XAML. O'Reilly's Ian Griffiths: Inside XAML.  [The Scobleizer — Geek Aggregator]

Workstrip. I think Workstrip might be the Dock replacement to end all Dock replacements. I dunno yet. Give me a couple more days trying it out. So far, so good, though. It does dock-ish things plus a whole bunch of useful stuff. And it looks good. And it puts the trash on the desktop. [Ceejbot]

Bye Bye Blackberry. I had lunch yesterday with my Mac-loving and techno-wizard friend Jeff Richardson, and he was raving about his new E-mail device. His large law firm recently got rid of their Blackberries for something that is called the 'Good G100.' … [Ernie The Attorney]

Prospect, Then Pitch.  Expanding on the discussion about my recent entry about cold calling and the resulting poll, Michele Harris of MarketingDeptNYC outlines 10 tips and tactics for better selling in the January edition of her email newsletter Marketing Marvels: Retention. Your best prospects are your current customers. What else can you do for them?… Continue reading Prospect, Then Pitch

Lessons from the Online Retailing Field.  Last January, we re-connected with Hilary Billings (keep scrolling down!), a customer experience guru who had migrated from Pottery Barn to Red Envelope, the tony, high-touch Web-based gift shop. Billings expressed her concern that as the company grew, its ability to offer such appealing elements as hand-tied bows would… Continue reading Lessons from the Online Retailing Field