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Great article in Slate identifying the failures of some of Jack Welch’s protogés. Moneybox editor Daniel Gross looks at Jeffrey Immelt at GE, Gary Wendt at Conseco, Paolo Fresco at Fiat, Robert Nardelli at Home Depot – and concludes that they haven’t exactly lit the world on fire. More successful examples: Stephen Bennett has been…

Microsoft’s law firm pushes lawyers to be more document efficient. In late 1999 B. Gerald Johnson, Preston Gates’s managing partner, told his lawyers to start acting more like their clients: Amazon.com Inc. and Starbucks Corp. Just as those companies redefined their businesses, Johnson wanted to redefine the way his law firm practiced law. “We’ve represented…

The Death of Red HerringWow.  I’m in shock.  I was a reader back in ’93 long before the dot com era boom and this feels like a part of the industry has just disappeared.  No Red Herring now and Upside passed away some time ago.  Yikes. Red Herring, the magazine considered a must-read among the technology…

My wife and I moved to the Bay Area in 1999, while the bubble was growing. We lived less than a mile from the 101, the highway that cuts through San Jose and goes up through San Francisco. Driving the 101 for the first time was a lot like the first time I got to Yankee…

If you haven’t seen Jay Leno’s video clip from last week where he dissed Morrison & Foerster, it’s pretty funny. For those that don’t know, Morrison & Foerster goes by their nickname, MoFo. (Yes, they know what it means. And they like it.) And Leno, during his “Headlines” bit, made fun of the, uh, disconnect…

Spoke at the CIO forum last week in San Francisco, and found two presentations particularly interesting. Matt Kesner, CIO at Fenwick and West, spoke about TCO “religion” and the failure of most CIOs who look at costs instead of benefits. He’s an engaging speaker and clearly understands how to evaluate and prioritize technology initiatives within…

Many thanks for all the e-mails coming in with links to recent news and video appearances. (The press and video pages are both now updated.) I’m on the road all week, and opportunities to get to the computer have been few and far between. Keep the e-mails coming, and updates will pick up again towards…

I’m en route to San Francisco, where I’m speaking at the CIO Forum. And instead of leaving SF and returning next week ( for the LMA Annaul Conference), I brought the family with me and we’re staying in town until next weekend. Of course, by the time this post hits the Net I’ll have arrived in…

Pyra’s servers. As a former search engine worker, the answer seemed pretty obvious: The deal’s terms made it more attractive for Google to buy rather than build a blog-scraping system to improve their search results. Automatically scoring human behavior on the Internet is Google’s core competency, and high-availability Web services are one of their strengths.…

David Korn gives a thorough breakdown in the Nation of the post-DNC landscape, giving Dean high marks and rating only Edwards as a solid competitor (though the article still says that Kerry is the presumptive front-runner). The conventional wisdom seems to be that Dean is the passionate “idea” candidate, while Edwards is the central casting candidate who…