Month: May 2004

I’m giving FeedBurner a try. FeedBurner addresses the thorny dilemma posed by RSS: while you know that it increases your readership, you have no frickin’ clue who’s reading your RSS feed. FeedBurner swaps out your own with its version of your RSS feed (more on that in a minute); by running sophisticated tracking software on…

This Memorial Day story by Ed Cone is wonderful.

Watching BBC America this morning, we saw a promo for Season 4 of Coupling. It looks like there’s a new Jeff? Can’t wait for the new episodes. Share your predictions about what will happen in Season 4 here.

Interesting: Washington Whispers notes that a major overhaul is coming to the Kerry campaign website, which will include: It’s an online capability that allows phone banking from a home computer. Not everyone has the time to travel to a campaign office or union hall and make calls for the candidate. E-block will allow them to…

Just yesterday, Matt Homann asked, “can lawyers innovate?” I responded with some thoughts of my own, and it turns out we already have an answer: Yes, they can. Of course, can lawyers legally innovate might have been the more appropriate question. This lawyer figured out a sure-fire way to drum up business: call into a…

Took the boys to a drive in theater that’s just a couple miles from the house. Shrek 2 was showing, and this seemed a great way to kick off Memorial Day weekend. That Ricky enjoyed the movie and the experience wasn’t a surprise — from the moment the Spiderman trailer ran, he was entranced —…

Great coverage today for Socialtext, which was profiled in the newest issue of Business Week: To capitalize on the opportunity, startups such as Socialtext Inc. are selling wiki software…Like open-source software, wikis may make their biggest mark less as a business than as a potent force for change — in this case, in the way…

This week, Al Gore unleashed a blistering attack on the Bush Administration. In today’s New York Times, Bob Herbert writes about Gore’s comments, and suggests that while it’s easy to crack jokes at Gore’s expense, Gore raised very serious issues that need to be looked at. For Herbert, the key comment in Gore’s speech was:…

Matt Homann asks: Quick, in the last decade, what has been the most significant positive change in the way lawyers do business? How about over the last twenty years? Seriously, apart from technology making us available 24-7, I can’t think of one way the legal business model has changed in a positive way for lawyers,…

At last week’s Red Herring Spring, I got a unique opportunity to sit in on a dozen or so pitches from CEOs about their companies. The concept behind Red Herring Spring is simple: take 100 late-stage private companies with a proven track record, and put them in a room to pitch VCs and investment bankers…