Month: December 2002

Internal Marketing of Knowledge Management. In Beyond the Newsletter: Leveraging Technology to Market the Library, Catherine Sanders Reach, a research specialist at the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center, writes about internal marketing practices including branding, logos, slogans, and marketing plans for law firm libraries. Although the focus is on the law firm library, the same…

In the “aren’t you glad this isn’t your mother in law” category, check out “Curious Mom Faces Credit Report Trial“ at Law.com: A Minnesota mother, a private investigation firm and a collection agency may have gone too far in performing a background check on the woman’s prospective son-in-law when they obtained a report on his…

I referenced Spinal Tap yesterday in a follow-up to the post about a woman unsuccessfully walking through a metal detector. Well, turns out the reference was timely: National Congressional Librarian James Billington announced today that Spinal Tap will be added to the National Film Registry, ensuring that the film “will be preserved for all time.“…

From Slate, an article about Vonage, a new entrant in the Internet telephony market. The difference between these guys and the other players? Vonage lets you plug a regular telephone into your broadband connection – and voila – dial tone. Flat rate $40/month for unlimited calling, call waiting, voicemail, caller ID. On its own, that’s…

Another item from the archives – this one from late November in Slate. Paul Boutin, a technology writer for Wired, Salon, Slate, etc., suggests that the last thing that should happen is for the geeks to play politics – they should continue to play the game on their own terms. Titled Silicon Valley vs. K…

As bad as my travel has been lately, I must confess that I’ve never come close to having a day go this badly while on the road: WINNIPEG, Canada (Reuters) — It took an airport metal detector to give a Canadian woman a clue to why she was suffering from persistent stomach aches four months…

Finally broke down and bought a Treo (the 180) to replace my current cell phone and PDA. Thanks to Ernie’s rave reviews, I felt pretty confident that this was the right move. Bonus: it’s a GSM phone (so it’ll work in London, which I visit about every six weeks) and T-Mobile has the GPRS service…

I’ve been meaning to write something on the Total Information Awareness (TIA) inititive underway at that bulwark of civil liberties, the Bush Administration. But my travel schedule the past few weeks has been more than a bit hectic, and I haven’t gotten around to it. Declan McCullagh (DC correspondent for News.com) has an interesting little…

My long-time friend Josh Marshall is getting credit for much of the attention paid to Trent Lott’s offensive remarks last week. As well he should – nice work Josh!

Help from the CrowdI love this story. A ripoff artist gets caught because the network worked. A human network, in this case, augmenting the virtual one.[Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]