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Search Tool Added Through Lilia Efimova …. Search Tool AddedThrough Lilia Efimova I found Micah Alpern’s microblogosphere search tool (go see Micah’s weblog). As a search tool to search my own blog, and the ones I read, was something I already had on my wishlist of improvements for my blog, I’ve imeddiately added it on…

Here’s a great report by Lisa Napoli about the resounding success of the NYC meetup.com rally for Governor Dean last week. Most interesting is the fact that the Dean campaign has partnered with meetup.com – paying the company a fee in exchange for access to the e-mail list of declared Dean supporters. The result? A…

Ernie shares a piece of advice that would have saved a year of my law school education: But, here’s a tip for you efficiency seeking law-students that I wish someone had told me about sooner.  If you want to figure out quickly what the point of the majority opinion is read the dissent.  They’ve got…

While traveling yesterday I managed to finally read a copy of Geeks & Geezers that I’d checked out of our library. To say that this is a transforming book would be an understatement – it is the clearest, most insightful book on leadership I’ve read in at least a couple years. The authors look at…

… wireless access? This was the question I asked at three separate Information kiosks here in the Pittsburgh airport. One woman, bless her heart, explained to me that if I had a laptop I could take it to the “phone with the keyboard” and use the Internet access there. I must have looked puzzled, because…

Add this to the list of “why blogs matter”. Back in January, Brobeck dissolved. For those that didn’t follow it at the time, it was a Big Deal. (At least, if you’re interested in the legal market.) In any event, I blogged my thoughts about the situation here, and had some follow-up comments on the entire…

Companies are using software to help their employees set and meet individual and business goalsBy Mary Hayes This June, 15,000 employees at Seagate Technology LLC will receive annual performance reviews that for the first time heavily weigh how close each individual comes to achieving his or her professional goals. The disk-drive maker asked its professional…

Come On, Share Your Mistakes. During last year’s Energy Law Institute, Christian E. Liipfert, Managing Attorney, Special Projects and Transactions, at BP America Inc., presented his paper “Knowledge Management within a Multi-location, Multi-discipline Legal Function.” As in-house counsel, Mr. Liipfert knows all too well the problems inherent in managing knowledge among lawyers within a multinational…

I changed the design of this site last night, so bear with some hiccups. A quick summary of the changes (this is as much for my own benefit as anything, so feel free to ignore): I’m using a modified version of Bryan Bell’s “Candid Blue“ theme for Radio. Modifications include removal of the Radio calendar…

NYT.  Mitchell D. Kapor, a personal computer industry software pioneer and a civil liberties activist, has resigned from the board of Groove Networks after learning that the company’s software was being used by the Pentagon as part of its development of a domestic surveillance system. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog] I met Mitch Kapor when I…