Year: 2002

Secret List of Potential Suitors for Global Crossing Exposed. The identities of more than 50 companies that have expressed interest in acquiring Global Crossing are no longer secret to one another, courtesy of an e- mail message from Global Crossing’s lawyers. By Simon Romero and Geraldine Fabrikant. [New York Times: Technology] At least we have…

Each year, the Citizens Against Government Waste produce the “Congressional Pig Book”. They released the 2002 pig book today, and Fritz Hollings (D-SC) is the proud (?) winner of the Narcissist Award. What did he do to beat others in this coveted category? He got the Senate to appropriate “$14 million for the Hollings Marine…

Jenny, the Shifted Librarian says today: I think librarians love Google, but we’ll never trust pagerank enough to use it to verify authenticity. Of course, we take almost nothing on the web for granted, and that’s one major difference between us and your average web surfer. Librarians need our own pagerank system that we can…

I co-author (with Erik Heels) a monthly column in the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Management Magazine. This month’s column is what got me hooked on the blog craze. Even though I wrote it three months ago (don’t you love dead-tree turn-around times?), I think it still reads well. An upcoming column will explore the concept of…

Over the years, I’ve had a lot of fun making fun of Jupiter Communications (now known as Jupiter Media Metrix, after the merger of Jupiter and Internet “ratings” firm Media Metrix). For a couple years, you could always count on Jupiter to add a zero to any number that was a study about the Internet.…

The Financial Times is reporting that the Pentagon has asked for – and is likely to get – a requirement passed into law that any acquisitions over $100m of U.S. companies by foreign companies must first be reviewed and approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. The CFIUS (doesn’t anyone have a…

Just as a new upstart named Teoma shows up to try and challenge Google, Google reveals how things really work. (So I’m a little late on the April Fool’s stuff, but I was a bit preoccupied.) You gotta love a company willing to have some fun.

Jenny (ShiftedLibrarian.com) asked: Hey, Bruce and Ernie – [what] if this defense of the DMCA is allowed to fly…? And Ernie the Attorney responds with a great post about the issues confronted by both Washington and Hollywood on the DMCA. She is referring to the Assistant US attorney’s argument that, “in creating the DMCA, Congress did…

Announcing Robert Parker Klau, born March 31, 2002 at 2:14pm. Mom, Dad and big brother Ricky are all doing well. More later.

In early January, I wrote about the PowerPoint presentation that was spreading like wildfire around the Net (the comment is at the bottom; there’s also a USA Today story about it here). It was about two guys who tried to claim their “guaranteed room” at the Doubletree Club in Houston. Well, looks like they’re cashing…