Recent Thoughts on PDAs for Lawyers. A few comments I made today about lawyers who want to dip their toes into the world of PDAs. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Happy HIPAA. A couple of useful HIPAA resources for a good overview on HIPAA deadline day. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Medical Technology News from Wired News – Techs Tangle With Privacy Regs. April 15 is a national day of angst in the United States. But for many this year, the government-provoked pain arrived one day early. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a broad and complex set of federal privacy rules, went into effect… Continue reading Wired News

EE Times: Cryptographers sound warnings on Microsoft security plan. Whitfield Diffie, a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, said an integrated security scheme for computers is inevitable, but the Microsoft approach is flawed because it fails to give users control over their security keys. [Tomalak's Realm]

The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett. For some years now, we web designers have been operating with a rough idea of exactly what it is we do. By mimicking the practices of other disciplines, sharing knowledge via web sites & mailing lists, reading industry magazines, following design gurus, and a whole lot… Continue reading The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett

What it Takes to Win the 40-Year War. According to one expert on global terror, we're at the outset of a war that could last 40 years. John Ellis lays out four bold strategies for adjusting to this new reality — and make sure that we win the war. [Fast Company]

Tog's got answers. Bruce Tognazzini (Tog) on Apple…. Bruce Tognazzini (Tog) on Apple Squandering the Advantage, on interface innovations Apple could make. Lists extra screen objects including: Piles (stacks of documents); visual cues on folders; various object/application collections.  [Interconnected] Lots of great ideas enclosed. Bruce is one of the grand old men of User Interface… Continue reading Tog's got answers

OPML is the way to go. Synchronicity. Jon Udell has posted the topic for his keynote talk at OSCOM. Perhaps I'll talk about OPML and directories. I want to zero in on something we can all do together to move Content Management forward. I want to see OPML directory renderers in all environments, not just… Continue reading OPML is the way to go

BuddyZoo.  AIM Meets Social Network Theory [Slashdot]  BuddyZoo just got Slashdotted.  Another form of identity browsing – AIM buddy lists are by far, the largest collection of identities out there today. Unfortunately it's controlled by the mother of all closed shops – AOL. BuddyZoo takes your buddy list and compares it to everyone elses – and… Continue reading BuddyZoo

We are the enablers.  Stewart Alsop On Server Side State. We are moving to a server side state world. Client side applications are fine, but they are simply the local glue to make server side data more manageable…Entrepreneurs, over to you. [VentureBlog] ISPs, are you listening?? [Scott Mace's Radio Weblog] Andrew Anker and Stewert Alsop… Continue reading We are the enablers