Author: Rick Klau

I updated the about this site page, incorporating changes with liveTopics and activeRenderer, and removing info about items that were no longer on the site. Request: if you’re new to this site, take a look at the page and tell me if you can figure out what’s going on. Since many people hitting this site…

I gave a presentation last week at LawNet, and my co-presenter was Peter Lamb, IT Direcor at a customer of ours in Toronto. They’ve been ridiculously successful with the product – they report 96% of the lawyers using the system regularly, and senior management sees it as critical to their overall success. Peter made a…

Blog On! by Rick Klau (A version of this article was originally published in the April, 2002 ABA Law Practice Management Magazine.) If I told you I had my own Web page, you’d probably cringe. Personal Web pages are the antithesis of the mantra in Field of Dreams, “If you build it, they will come.”…

The ABA Law Practice Management Magazine is running a “Reader Letters” page for the October issue. If you want to get a letter in to them responding to either of my two articles about weblogs (here and here), e-mail me no later than tomorrow morning. I’ll forward them on to the editor.

Too bad. The site responsible for many of those e-mails that were too funny to have been written by your friend’s friend? Most of them came from SatireWire. Some of my favorites: Remaining CEOs Make a Run for MexicoSupreme Court Rules Earnings To Be Protected as ArtFoot and Mouth First Virus That Can’t Spread Through Microsoft…

Klog examples. Dylan Tweney says. In Business 2.0, Dylan Tweney says a weblog is a “ quick-and-dirty, easy-to-use knowledge management system.”   [Scripting News]Some good, quick examples of klogs in action including Traction at Verizon and Radio in the state of Utah. [McGee’s Musings] Let’s not forget that one of Traction’s investors is In-Q-Tel, the V.C. arm…

Matt Mower, author of liveTopics, is struggling with how to license what he’s written. My excitement over liveTopics grows the more I think about how it adds value to my blog (that value is purely internal – it makes it easier for me to “remember” things I’ve written about, and to see the threads of…

Dan Bricklin (co-creator of VisiCalc, founder of Trellix) posted a great piece a couple weeks ago about the growing importance of blogs in the business world. He focused specifically on the importance of blogs in small businesses. Two quotes stand out: It is important to understand that the purpose of a blog is not always…

The first time I read about Bill Clinton, I was living in France and it was in the Lexington column in The Economist. It was about a dark horse candidate, someone who was willing to be a bit different in an effort to establish an independent voice early in the campaign for the presidency. I…

I asked this morning for a way to automatically add paragraph numbers to blog posts. Why? Thanks to an e-mail from reader Edward Chiu, I realized that there’s really no way for researchers to adequately cite to blogs. This is a big deal in the legal world, and I imagine it would have applicability in broader…