Month: April 2004

Last night’s gala dinner at the Mertias conference was held at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. I stood on the street the motorcade drove past, then a few minutes later, looked out the same windows Lee Harvey Oswald looked out before he assassinated President Kennedy. It was overwhelming — standing on historical ground…

John Palfrey, Revisiting online information sources for lawyers: “I have high hopes yet for the Net’s impact on the practice of law.” Clay Shirky, in Salon and on Many 2 Many, on Groklaw: “Groklaw may also be affecting the case in the courts, by helping IBM with a distributed discovery effort that they, IBM, could…

Nice pick-up by Dennis Kennedy: TechSupportAlert.com provides a great list of the 46 best free utility programs. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Leaving for Dallas in a couple hours to attend the Meritas Annual Conference, where I’m speaking tomorrow on how firms can better leverage technology. I will focus primarily on WiFi and collaboration (with an eye towards weblogs and wikis), and will be demoing Socialtext afterwards for firms who are interested. Here’s an amazing statistic: this…

If you’re in the DC area and are looking for a terrific folk/accoustic performance from an up-and-coming voice, go see Emily Lord at the Staccato in Adams Morgan tomorrow night. Emily went to Notre Dame with my brother, and I’ve listened to her music since before they graduated. After graduation, she fulfilled her obligation to…

Erik Heels just did a great Movable Type brain dump that’s well worth a look.

I hadn’t seen this before: LawWiki. Seems pretty spartan right now, and focused mostly on UK law. But this kind of niche application of the Wikipedia concept seems inevitable. Anyone know of US versions of this?

I wrote the other night about Mark Cuban’s post on success and motivation. Interestingly, his post was titled “Part 1.” Tonight he followed up with part 2, and shows that his business strategy can be summed up in one word: Towels. That’s right, towels. (If you don’t see the connection, read part 2 again, then…

This made me laugh… Responding to Colin Powell’s use of the phrase “The Pottery Barn Rule”to refer to the rule “You break it, you own it,” Williams-Sonoma, parent of Pottery Barn, has issued a press release stating that its policy is in fact to write-down breakage. I’m serious. Update: It has been brought to my…

It’s been almost two years since I sold something on eBay — and more than six years since my first sale on eBay. In that time, I’ve sold a stereo, a TV, a lawn mower, a laptop computer, and countless “little” things from around the house. This time I’m cleaning out our DVD collection —…