Author: Rick Klau

Wall Street Journal: How Safe Is Airline Water? The results of our water-quality snapshot: a long list of microscopic life you don’t want to drink, from Salmonella and Staphylococcus to tiny insect eggs. Worse, contamination was the rule, not the exception: Almost all of the bacteria levels were tens, sometimes hundreds, of times above U.S.…

A great story: Act of kindness speaks volumes about football’s spirit (as read and discussed this morning on ESPN Radio’s Mike & Mike in the Morning).[POELog] What a great story.

This is newsworthy: Howard Bashman’s blog has become even more influential. Turns out that a judge issued an opinion on Tuesday; Howard noted in passing that one of the footnotes appeared to be in error. On Wednesday, the Judge issued an amended opinion with a correction of the footnote in question, followed up by an…

Why tech’s heavyweights still can’t crush the small fry BusinessWeek Online [News.com: News Around the Web] An encouraging note about the opportunities for innovation from Business Week. In light of the doomsday predicitions coming from Siebel and Oracle, it’s nice to hear someone see the glass as half full: Even if smaller and midsize companies…

If you named your company (not to mention the site) “Law.com”, don’t you think http://law.com/ would pull up the home page? Turns out you’d be wrong. You need to go http://www.law.com/ . Come on guys, figure out the DNS!

My only comments after reading the synopsis (I’ll look at the full paper later) is to compare this with Gartner’s Hype Cycle (I wrote about this last December). More later… From Ross Mayfield’s Weblog: Whitepaper: Timing Your Business Case. I have posted a whitepaper on the use of financial metrics (ROI, TCO, ROA, etc.) in…

Well, one review anyway. Sandeep Dave, editor of the India Law & International Resources Review, recently published his review of the Lawyer’s Guide to Marketing on the Internet. You can read the full review here. But the concluding paragraph says what needs to be said: In plain language, the book gives useful tips to exploit…

I just recreated four posts from yesterday that vanished sometime overnight. When I got to my computer this morning, Radio had crashed at some point – and when it restarted, it acted as if posts I’d made since late afternoon had never happened. Fortunately I had copies of the posts (I subscribe to my own…

From this month’s Technology Review, The Web’s Missing Links: Webloggers, or “bloggers,” say recent experiments with backlinking could benefit all kinds of online publishing. Instead of pointing readers only to sources for the item they have just read, backlinks also point to newer material that item inspired, making it easy to follow a path through…

I’ve been silent on a couple of law firm soap operas playing out very publicly in the press lately. But for the benefit of any readers who may not be wired into the rumor mill, let me try to sum them up for you… Pillsbury Winthrop and Latham & Watkins Frode Jensen, a partner in…