Year: 2002

PwC Consulting IPO set for August PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS WILL SPIN off its management and IT consulting unit via an initial public offering (IPO) in August, the latest planned move by a Big Five accounting firm to shed consulting services that might compromise the integrity of its core audit business. [IDG InfoWorld]Interested in what else is in the…

Aargh. A minor glitch hit my Radio application yesterday – I couldn’t add titles or categories to posts. A few posts to the Radio discussion board yielded some helpful advice, especially from Scott Johnson (be sure to visit his site at fuzzygroup.com). Unfortunately, the fix was to uninstall and reinstall Radio – and I now…

Check out this presentation by my friend Ann Gibson at last month’s San Francisco LMA meeting. Very useful information about competitive intelligence: what it is, what it isn’t, and why law firms should be paying more attention to it.

Law Meets Blog: Electronic Publishing Comes of Age [LLRX.com]. This recent article on LLRX.com, by Denise Howell, documents emerging best practices in web publishing for judges, lawyers, and courts, focusing on the use of simple weblog technology.   I read Denise’s weblog, Bag and Baggage, regularly, and appreciate the opportunity to learn from her professional interests and explorations.…

Many thanks to Martin Roell for this pointer (you can click the “translate to English” button in the upper left; it makes the whole experience far more understandable for us non-German speakers). It turns out that a German court is now accepting filings via e-mail, and will even allow those documents to be submitted in XML. In…

The Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy clinic, and U.C. Berkeley’s School of Information Management & Systems … have put up a searchable BriefBank for “law, technology and public policy” cases. The site appears to be in draft form (there are several prototypes), but is a great idea. [via Bag & Baggage]

“Carrying out the responsibilities of a CEO in a professional service firm is exceptionally challenging because the position lacks the inherent power and control that CEOs of traditional companies enjoy.”This article is an excerpt from Aligning the Stars: How to Succeed When Professionals Drive Results, published by Harvard Business School about the challenges inherent in a…

The Google API is a two-way street. Google’s new SOAP API seemed to follow a boom-and-bust trajectory. Everyone was excited about it until it arrived. Then doubts arose. “Bah,” scoffed Edd Dumbill in an O’Reilly Network column (http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1303), “what a waste of space for something that can be done in one line of shell script.”…

Federal Computer World reports on a Gartner presentation to a bunch of federal KM “specialists.” From the article: Much of the problems seems to be that government workers don’t understand what knowledge management is. “Knowledge management is a business process that has to be approached with discipline,” [Gartner’s French] Caldwell said. “It is not a technology. You…

I have no reason to link to this site, other than they’re from my home town (Acton, Massachusetts). Saw them linked on the Radio Community Server’s most viewed pages. Great idea – youth soccer team, includes e-mail links to the coaches, schedule, storm tracking (!). Makes sense.