Year: 2002

Hard to imagine, but it looks like Senator Fritz Hollings (D-SC) may be on the right side of the law on this one. This is the same guy who two weeks ago proposed a bill that would effectively have Congress enter into a limited partnership with Hollywood; now it looks like Fritz is siding with…

Wall Street & Technology reports that eight Wall Street firms (CS First Boston, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Salomon Smith Barney, and UBS Warburg) are building out an Instant Messaging network based on Communicator, Inc.‘s secure IM system. The goals: greater customer convenience, faster communication, and improved efficiency via an…

Fast Company interviews David Maister on why professional services firms are so poorly run. If you haven’t seen David speak before, you should. Though the shtick gets old after a while (you can only listen to him clear his throat into a lavalier mic so often), he has been thinking about management of professional services…

Clay Shirky was the moderator at this year’s PC Forum, and his article titled Communities, Audiences and Scale provides a very interesting argument about the sustainability of communities. He compares the viability of audiences (one-way communication model) to communities (two-way communication model), and identifies weblog software (like Radio) as transforming the traditional Internet model away from an…

Mark Cuban is the Chairman of HDNet, the first all-HD, national TV network, and says in a speech at the NAB that broadcasters should “totally ignore Hollywood in the fight over digital rights management,” calling the studios’ fears a “chicken little environment.” [ Consensus at Lawyerpoint] Cuban is a breath of fresh air. Whether it’s…

I originally wrote this article about law firms and KM last month, but a conversation with “Ernie” last week, today’s link to the Global Counsel article, and an e-mail I just got from Buzz prompted me to include another link. I tweaked it just a bit, but it’s basically the same piece. Like Ernie, I think…

Anyone interested in the intersection of KM, professional services firm management and branding should read this article from the March issue of Global Counsel magazine. The author looks at global brands like KPMG, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and asks, “Can any law firm ever create as strong a brand as these companies?” He believes they…

Professor Eugene Volokh is one of my favorite lawyers on the net. I originally met him while I was a subscriber to Cyberia-L, a list started by William & Mary law school professor Trotter Hardy. Through e-mails, Prof. Volokh is frighteningly smart, and has a wicked sense of humor. After I graduated, I needed to…

I’m looking for information about the European Union Data Protection Directive and the UK Data Protection Act. Specifically, I’d like to know what companies are doing to comply. Anyone out there have suggestions or pointers?

Search for PayPal at Google, and the first hit you’ll get is PayPal, but the two micro-ads on Google are for competitors – eBay and C2IT (a Citibank knock-off of PayPal). So far, no problems. Except that Citibank has registered PatPal.com, a misspelling of PayPal’s domain name. Isn’t this a violation of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act…