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Clay Shirky was the moderator at this year’s PC Forum, and his article titled Communities, Audiences and Scale provides a very interesting argument about the sustainability of communities. He compares the viability of audiences (one-way communication model) to communities (two-way communication model), and identifies weblog software (like Radio) as transforming the traditional Internet model away from an…

Mark Cuban is the Chairman of HDNet, the first all-HD, national TV network, and says in a speech at the NAB that broadcasters should “totally ignore Hollywood in the fight over digital rights management,” calling the studios’ fears a “chicken little environment.” [ Consensus at Lawyerpoint] Cuban is a breath of fresh air. Whether it’s…

I originally wrote this article about law firms and KM last month, but a conversation with “Ernie” last week, today’s link to the Global Counsel article, and an e-mail I just got from Buzz prompted me to include another link. I tweaked it just a bit, but it’s basically the same piece. Like Ernie, I think…

Anyone interested in the intersection of KM, professional services firm management and branding should read this article from the March issue of Global Counsel magazine. The author looks at global brands like KPMG, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and asks, “Can any law firm ever create as strong a brand as these companies?” He believes they…

Professor Eugene Volokh is one of my favorite lawyers on the net. I originally met him while I was a subscriber to Cyberia-L, a list started by William & Mary law school professor Trotter Hardy. Through e-mails, Prof. Volokh is frighteningly smart, and has a wicked sense of humor. After I graduated, I needed to…

I’m looking for information about the European Union Data Protection Directive and the UK Data Protection Act. Specifically, I’d like to know what companies are doing to comply. Anyone out there have suggestions or pointers?

Search for PayPal at Google, and the first hit you’ll get is PayPal, but the two micro-ads on Google are for competitors – eBay and C2IT (a Citibank knock-off of PayPal). So far, no problems. Except that Citibank has registered PatPal.com, a misspelling of PayPal’s domain name. Isn’t this a violation of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act…

Who Reads What and Why [The Car Talk Guys, via LISNews] The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country. The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country. The Washington Post is read by people who think they should run the country. USA Today is…

Turns out that not too many people like the Hollings bill that would mandate protection for the entertainment industry – or, better put, nobody likes it. Except maybe for Mr. Eisner and crowd. This is good news. (Thanks to Doc Searls who pointed out the mention on Scott Andrew’s site.)

Jim McGee at McGee’s Musings talks about the perils of “knowledge sharing” in his latest post. A largely unexplorted dimension in KM is that of visibility. I’ve written one initial stab at it in a piece looking at knowledge work as craft work.  I suspect the underlying fear in this debate is that of having…