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If you ever see a couple guys from a cable company show up with big shovels and power tools – unannounced – ask lots of questions. “Why are you here?” would be a good start. But most importantly, if you tell them not to cut something – it turns out you need to furnish an…

An annotated bibliography on weblogs & blogging, BlogBib CARL 2002 [LLRX Newstand] Hadn’t seen anyone else pick this up. Caught it at Sabrina Pacifici’s LLRX site. The Newstand is a great collection of daily links to tech news around the web.

Thanks to Genie Tyburski and Mike Masnick for their recommendation of SpamCop to address my dislike of spam. It costs $30/year, and I signed up this afternoon. Here’s what I did: Configured my e-mail address to point to my SpamCop address.SpamCop queues up any likely spam and places it into a “hold” folderConfigured my mail…

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:…