Author: Rick Klau

Just downloaded liveTopics, an interesting extension of Radio that adds potentially valuable meta data to weblog posts. This is a tool developed by Matt Mower, and represents an important “next step” for Radio as a KM tool. From Matt’s site: Topics are used on your weblog to provide cross-reference links to related items and can…

Just got in to Boca Raton, site of this year’s LawNet Annual Conference. It’s probably the most valuable IT conference focused exclusively on the legal profession: strong educational bent, every vendor that’s focused on the market is here, high attendance. I’m speaking tomorrow at our SIG (LawNet members organize “special interest groups” around leading applications;…

Stuart Kay, in today’s LLRX, publishes an outstanding article titled Benchmarking KM in US and UK Law Firms. The entire article is worth reading, but this comparison between US and UK firms is spot on: Technology is less of a driver in the UK than it is in the US, and more of an enabler.…

For me, the key graph in Lucinda Schmidt’s piece in BRW is this: [Consultant Graham] Seldon says law firms went through a similar change about five years ago, when marketing began to be taken seriously. “Initially, they just saw marketing as events, brochures and Web sites,” he says. “Then it became more strategic, and moved…

KM for lawyers. Lucinda Schmidt has written an article for BRW on Law’s new tools. This looks at the use of intranets in law firms, as well as the impact of knowledge management more broadly. To quote: Knowledge management is not a new idea for law firms; they have used sophisticated precedents databases and libraries…

A Snopes TV show would be a big hit. The intro teaser is here; a sample bit debunking the famous 602P Internet Tax Bill is here. My TiVo’s waiting…

Great study in this month’s Fast Company about TiVo’s attempts to create a sustainable business model. What’s most valuable in the article is the dissection of TiVo’s efforts at shifting its business plan in response to changing market conditions. I’ve had TiVo for just over 18 months, and am definitely one of the “rabid fans”…

A couple people have written in about my directory browsing post earlier today. Some thoughts: Rogers Cadenhead reports that “The Python Community Server, the open source clone of the Radio Community Server at http://www.pycs.net, turns off directory browsing by default.” If you put index.txt in your “gems” folder, nothing will happen. This is because the…

Phil Windley: People are the Key in Technology. In an article in the Atlantic Monthly called Homeland Insecurity, Charles Mann quotes Bruce Schneier thusly: “The trick is to remember that technology can’t save you,” Schneier says. “We know this in our own lives. We realize that there’s no magic anti-burglary dust we can sprinkle on our…

Lawyer Marketing – now this is an interesting idea.  Axiom Legal is a company that acts as an agent for lawyers, referring them cases.  If the client engages the lawyer Axiom runs the billing and provides some basic support services, and retains a percentage of the billing.  Apparently, according to my source, Axiom has generated…