Month: April 2002

  • Leadership Challenges in Professional Services Firms

    “Carrying out the responsibilities of a CEO in a professional service firm is exceptionally challenging because the position lacks the inherent power and control that CEOs of traditional companies enjoy.”This article is an excerpt from Aligning the Stars: How to Succeed When Professionals Drive Results, published by Harvard Business School about the challenges inherent in a…

  • Ask Not What Google Can Do For You…

    The Google API is a two-way street. Google’s new SOAP API seemed to follow a boom-and-bust trajectory. Everyone was excited about it until it arrived. Then doubts arose. “Bah,” scoffed Edd Dumbill in an O’Reilly Network column (http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1303), “what a waste of space for something that can be done in one line of shell script.”…

  • Federal Government Worst at KM “by far”

    Federal Computer World reports on a Gartner presentation to a bunch of federal KM “specialists.” From the article: Much of the problems seems to be that government workers don’t understand what knowledge management is. “Knowledge management is a business process that has to be approached with discipline,” [Gartner’s French] Caldwell said. “It is not a technology. You…

  • Acton Boxborough Soccer Dynamos

    I have no reason to link to this site, other than they’re from my home town (Acton, Massachusetts). Saw them linked on the Radio Community Server’s most viewed pages. Great idea – youth soccer team, includes e-mail links to the coaches, schedule, storm tracking (!). Makes sense.

  • Dr. Mudd and Military Tribunals: Here We Go Again

    History with a Sept. 11 twist. A chapter in American history that has come to life again in the federal courts may shed light on the jurisdiction of post-Sept. 11 military tribunals. [National Law Journal]This is an article about the conviction of Dr. Samuel Mudd as a co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Interestingly,…

  • Hollings Bill Endorses Spyware

    Salon: “Sen. Fritz Hollings is pushing a bill that supposedly safeguards online privacy — but actually gives intrusive marketers a green light.”  [Scripting News]I guess I should’ve suspected as much. First Hollings had the “consumer broadband and digital television promotion act“, which actually did none of those. Now he has the “online personal privacy act“…

  • Debut of Radio pages

    Debut of Radio pages for WV Supreme Court site. The seven new opinions released today were posted to newly-revised pages on the WV Supreme Court site, which marks the official debut of these new Radio-driven pages.   I broadcast the new links to the 2100+ subscribers of my e-mail opinion summary list, so I’m anxious to see what kind…

  • Strategy Firms Won’t Recover Until 2003

    Kennedy Information predicts that it will be 2003 before strategy consulting firms will see a rebound. Noting that Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has already laid off one in eight employees, and predicting that Bain and McKinsey will likely follow suit, Kennedy points out that the business models for these firms are shifting – dramatically. Strategy…

  • “Geektools: GeekTels ~ Hotels

    “Geektools: GeekTels ~ Hotels that provide Internet access for their residents.” [Memo To Myself]Excellent! Currently lists 2075 hotels across the U.S.![The Shifted Librarian]

  • France’s Shame

    I lived in France for a little over a year in the early 90s, and Jean-Marie LePen and the Front National had started to emerge as more than just a fringe group. In some elections (mostly local), they were starting to attract 10-15% of the ballots. If memory serves, when I lived there they only…