Author: Rick Klau

This looks pretty cool: Pyra (company behind Blogger) has come up with a stats package specifically for bloggers. Right now it’s only available for blogspot plus users, but they hope to make it available for others soon. Check out the screen shots – lots of very useful improvements over traditional site tracking tools.

Joy beats me to the punch: Today, Hildebrandt’s TechGroup and my company (Interface Software) published a white paper about the importance of Relationship Intelligence in law firms. Joy’s comments: Relationship Intelligence and Law Firms. The Hildebrandt TechGroup, a division of law office management consultancy, Hildebrandt International, published a white paper entitled: <A href=”http://www.hildebrandt.com/TechGroup/pub_techgroup?&id1=963”>Relationship Intelligence in…

I’m looking for an outsourced spam filtering system. I rent my domain (rklau.com) from Verio, and can point my mailserver address to any machine. I figure there has to be a couple of companies out there who will serve as a gateway for my e-mail – and nuke the spam while sending my e-mail on…

Knowledge Management in a Spanish Law Firm. Knowledge Management at Uria & Menendez, one of Spain’s largest law firms.(Spotted on Peter West’s SynapShots, a blog of “citings for knowledge workers”) [excited utterances] Joy has added a wealth of information on her site about KM in law firms. It’s well worth checking out her recent posts,…

Matt asks: Has pagerank run it’s course? Daniel Brandt: Google’s Original Sin. [Scripting News] » A good piece.  The main thrust is that Google’s reliance on pagerank, far from being democratic, is uniquely autocratic.  Because sites with a high pagerank matter most, they have more power and it is harder for site with a low…

Jenny recounts her hellish PC experience over the past month. Makes my experience of replacing my wife’s PC last week seem rather trivial. Must be something in the Illinois air… Welcome back Jenny. Maybe that effort to christen Saint Isidore of Seville the patron saint of the Internet ain’t such a bad idea… at least you’d…

This is a good summary of challenges faced in re-branding efforts. The U.K. has had a couple swings at this particular pitch… wonder whether this newest effort will work? Third time is charming: Great Britain, which has re-branded itself not once but twice this year alone, is once again heading back to the drawing board:…

Obeying demand. Tom Stewart’s most recent Barely Managing column in Business 2.0 takes a look at the market for DVDs as the realization of video-on-demand that so many sought. Tom has a finely honed sense for organizations’ preference for order over profit. I only hope the RIAA is reading as well. Some clips from the…

EBay Mulls Legal Options Against Parody Web Site, USA Today – “…eBay is considering legal action against a parody Web site that lampoons Gov. Gray Davis and is produced by his opponent’s campaign. Campaign workers for Republican Bill Simon said they plan to keep the Web site, called E-Gray (www.e-gray.com), online.” [LLRX Newstand] Talk about…

… have got to be the bane of existence. is there anyone out there who has a good system for keeping up with expenses, gets reimbursed in a timely fashion and pays their corporate expenses consistently? It’s incredible how much time this has taken out of my morning – here I am at 8am, and…