Month: November 2002

Very cool. Got my copies of the direct mail brochure the ABA put together for my book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Marketing on the Internet. Very well done, and they’re sending out many thousand copies of the brochure (how retro!). Ernie recently posted some nice comments about the book on his site, and apparently several reviews…

Strategy + Business: Best Business Books of 2002 This appears to be a great collection of books, separated by category and reviewed by the editors of Strategy + Business .

From Ross Mayfield’s blog: Mapping Trust and Other Social Networks. The seminal article I mentioned in my post on Trust Networks that lays out 3 networks (Trust, Advice, Communication) is Informal Networks: The Company Behind the Chart by David Krackhardt and Jeffery Hanson, HBR 1993.  Karen Stephenson lays out 6 networks which overlap with the original 3. …

John Ellis: “The coming Democratic purge will be helpful. Getting rid of Terry Mac and Gephardt and eventually Daschle would, in an ideal Democratic scenario, happen sooner rather than later. More important, 2002 ends the whole 2000-we-won-even-though-we-lost dementia. Last night, the country essentially ratified Bush’s victory in 2000. The upside of being completely out of…

Andrew Sullivan: “This was a vote for Bush, for prosecuting the war on terror, for the tax cut. More important, it was a vote against the hollow negativism, cowardice and mediocrity of the current Democratic Party. They have nothing to say; and that matters. Their predicament is deeper than this result suggests.”

William Saletan blogs the election in Slate: “Moaning isn’t enough. Whether through lack of resolve, lack of agreement, or lack of imagination, a party that can’t summarize its economic philosophy—and can’t connect that philosophy to the boom that occurred on its watch—is in for a long decade.”

From my buddy Josh Marshall: “Well, that really could have gone better.” Josh, who’s the most connected Democrat I know (granted, that’s not necessarily saying much, but in this case I think it’s legit), reinforces the point I made last night: The Democrats have lots of long-term political and demographic trends in their favor. But…

A good collection of articles (including one by yours truly) over at Law.com on the rising profile of blogs in the legal profession. However, I think the article about Denise’s site misses the point. The goal isn’t to sell legal services at “Bag & Baggage“ any more than the goal of my site is to sell CRM…

Give credit where credit’s due: Rove engineered an awe-inspiring flurry of local activity. Between the calculated risk of sending the above-the-fray President out to stump for Republicans and the remarkable upsets brewing in states like Alabama (say what you will about their attacks on Cleland: to lob a “weak on defense” attack at a man…

Josh Marshall reports: This clip off the AP Wire … Its operation riddled with errors, Voter News Service abandoned its state and national exit poll plans for Election Night, depriving media organizations of information to help analyze the vote.VNS is the coalition of news organizations that was designed to produce reliable exit polling to allow…