Year: 2002

Too bad. The site responsible for many of those e-mails that were too funny to have been written by your friend’s friend? Most of them came from SatireWire. Some of my favorites: Remaining CEOs Make a Run for MexicoSupreme Court Rules Earnings To Be Protected as ArtFoot and Mouth First Virus That Can’t Spread Through Microsoft…

Klog examples. Dylan Tweney says. In Business 2.0, Dylan Tweney says a weblog is a “ quick-and-dirty, easy-to-use knowledge management system.”   [Scripting News]Some good, quick examples of klogs in action including Traction at Verizon and Radio in the state of Utah. [McGee’s Musings] Let’s not forget that one of Traction’s investors is In-Q-Tel, the V.C. arm…

Matt Mower, author of liveTopics, is struggling with how to license what he’s written. My excitement over liveTopics grows the more I think about how it adds value to my blog (that value is purely internal – it makes it easier for me to “remember” things I’ve written about, and to see the threads of…

Dan Bricklin (co-creator of VisiCalc, founder of Trellix) posted a great piece a couple weeks ago about the growing importance of blogs in the business world. He focused specifically on the importance of blogs in small businesses. Two quotes stand out: It is important to understand that the purpose of a blog is not always…

The first time I read about Bill Clinton, I was living in France and it was in the Lexington column in The Economist. It was about a dark horse candidate, someone who was willing to be a bit different in an effort to establish an independent voice early in the campaign for the presidency. I…

I asked this morning for a way to automatically add paragraph numbers to blog posts. Why? Thanks to an e-mail from reader Edward Chiu, I realized that there’s really no way for researchers to adequately cite to blogs. This is a big deal in the legal world, and I imagine it would have applicability in broader…

If you live in Chicago-land and like music, Naperville is the place to be this weekend. Friday night – David Crosby. Saturday – Blues Traveler. Sunday – Sponge, Seven Mary Three, Spin Doctors and Gin Blossoms. Monday – Sonia Dada. Oh yeah – tickets are $5 (Monday’s free). Visit the Last Fling web site for…

Does anyone out there know how to create a Radio macro that will automatically number paragraphs? (I would like each post to include paragraph numbers; they wouldn’t be sequential.) If you do, drop me a line.

John Robb reports on the difference of meeting someone through their blog: … The difference with people that have weblogs is: 1) We don’t have to exchange business cards.  They know where I am located on the Internet.  I know where they are located on the Internet.   My personal weblog has spam-free e-mail, and a link to…

Without a doubt, Ernie has got to be one of the top two or three Swedish-Colombian lawyer bloggers on the Internet living in New Orleans (rim-shot). Check out his post on Five Minute Legislation. Says Ernie: “The current system produces many convoluted laws that clearly don’t work and cause enormous confusion, so how much worse could it…