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Kennedy Information predicts that it will be 2003 before strategy consulting firms will see a rebound. Noting that Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has already laid off one in eight employees, and predicting that Bain and McKinsey will likely follow suit, Kennedy points out that the business models for these firms are shifting – dramatically. Strategy…

“Geektools: GeekTels ~ Hotels that provide Internet access for their residents.” [Memo To Myself]Excellent! Currently lists 2075 hotels across the U.S.![The Shifted Librarian]

I lived in France for a little over a year in the early 90s, and Jean-Marie LePen and the Front National had started to emerge as more than just a fringe group. In some elections (mostly local), they were starting to attract 10-15% of the ballots. If memory serves, when I lived there they only…

In London for the past 48 hours (nothing like a day trip to London from Chicago), and just before heading to the airport, I dialed in to clear e-mail. It was about 1pm London time, and as luck would have it, my wife was online back at home in Chicago. Not only were we able to exchange…

Clay Shirky on O’Reilly.  He finally “gets” the link between Web Services and P2P.  Excellent.  Nice to have you on board Clay!  >>>So given that the peer-to-peer world has been historically bad at standards, for a variety of historical reasons, it looks to me like the standards for peer communication are actually going to come…

Rotten Links Hamper Learning. Thousands of Web pages disappear regularly despite the ongoing growth of the Internet. Researchers say ‘link rot’ is a serious problem that could hinder online as well as offline courses. By Kendra Mayfield and Katie Dean. [Wired News]Somebody should tell the researchers (and the authors, for that matter) about InfoMinder and…

Turns out that it is possible to back up and import your subscriptions. There’s a good document describing this at Radio Userland’s support site here. Any Radio users who are reading this, not a bad idea to create a backup of mySubscriptions.opml (in www/gems) so that you don’t have to manually recreate the subscriptions file.…

Annoying. Radio lost my subscriptions (again), so I had to manually recreate them. Anyone know how to backup/import subscriptions so I don’t have to individually add sites to my aggregator? Any tips are much appreciated.

Years ago, I was a big fan of URL Minder, a product of a company called NetMind. NetMind was bought by PumaTech (the folks behind Intellisync), and in January of this year they turned URL Minder into a for-pay-only product. The concept behind URL Minder was simple: you type in a URL you’re interested in,…

Cool. I’m the #1 result for “lawyer weblog“, at least right now…