How Much Information Technology Support is Enough? How much IT support should firms provide to users? Many firms answer this question via benchmarking (that is, comparing spending and staffing to comparable firms). Lawyers are demanding “customers.” They want a lot of support and, when they want it, they want it now. By and large, that… Continue reading How Much Information Technology Support is Enough?
Scenarios of Future Law Firms Rely Heavily on Technology
Scenarios of Future Law Firms Rely Heavily on Technology This past weekend, I attended the annual meeting of the College of Law Practice Management. The attendees are a mix of lawyers and law firm managers (including chief administrators, marketers, HR, and technology). We spent an entire morning working in small teams. Each team had the… Continue reading Scenarios of Future Law Firms Rely Heavily on Technology
You call that a backup plan?
You call that a backup plan?. As discussed with many people, the fact of the matter is, as a one-man shop, if I got hit by a bus tomorrow, this place would be in a world of hurt. There are simply too many things that I know how to do that absolutely no one else… Continue reading You call that a backup plan?
Boston Globe
Boston Globe: … the single biggest predictor that financial failure lies ahead for a family? Having children. Even just one of them.. . . According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics's Consumer Expenditure Survey, American families spent 44 percent less on appliances in 2000 than they did in 1973, 22 percent less for food (both at… Continue reading Boston Globe
More Bang for Your Buck
More Bang for Your Buck. What's the Best Value in Town? Take a guess. All libraries should include a page like this on their web sites, although I would advocate adding dollar figures. [Thanks, Will!] [The Shifted Librarian]
And Yet You're Eliminating Libraries??
And Yet You're Eliminating Libraries??. Interesting ILL Statistic “A recent study published by OCLC reports the following statistics: Libraries as logistics expertsU.S. libraries circulate 1,947,600,000 items a year Public libraries1,772,000,000 Circulation (lent to patrons)39,500,000 Interlibrary loan1,811,500,000 Total (State library data 2001–2002) Academic libraries122,000,000 Circulation14,100,000 Interlibrary loan136,100,000 Total (ACRL 2001) Libraries: How they stack up. OCLC… Continue reading And Yet You're Eliminating Libraries??
Protect Your Right to Privacy
Protect Your Right to Privacy. Help ALA Keep Big Brother Out of Your Library! “The American Library Association is accepting donations for its E-Spy program to keep Big Brother out of the library. If you choose to contribute, do as I did and tell them to thank John Ashcroft for inspiring the donation. From the… Continue reading Protect Your Right to Privacy
Introducing Syncato
Introducing Syncato: Kimbro Staken: Syncato is the new Weblog system that runs this site now. It is written in Python and uses Sleepycat Berkeley DB XML for its database. The system is heavily based around XPath manipulation of XML data. All presentation is handled through XSL-T and I built some extension modules that tie Berkeley… Continue reading Introducing Syncato
Jeff Key's Snippet Compiler
I got a few IMs from people about Jeff Key's Snippet Compiler. This thing looks awesome for people who just wanna do quick and dirty things with .NET. I'm starting back trying to learn a little bit of coding, and this looks perfect. [The Scobleizer Weblog]
Larry O'Brien talks about Borland's C# Builder
Larry O'Brien talks about Borland's C# Builder. Larry's the former editor of SD Times. [The Scobleizer Weblog]