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Glass half full or half empty?

Posted on April 23, 2008
Link: Strategic Legal Technology :: The Future of Law Practice: Change or More of the Same?. Some traditions, such as the practice of law, seem capable of resisting changing more than others. But the keyword here is "resisting." What is...

Linking good for business?

Posted on April 21, 2008
Link: Join The Web Content Conservation Movement - Publishing 2.0. Linking also just makes good business sense because once all the megaphones of the various echo chambers begin to fade (start leaking because of the noise), readers will be drawn...

Neighbors

Posted on April 20, 2008
I have a great neighbor. His name is Frank Barrett (family name is really Barrettino but the judge shortened it when his father emigrated from Italy. Maybe figured the family would fare better with a Waspy name?). He is 84...

Roll your own "A" List

Posted on April 17, 2008
From time to time you hear someone complaining about how ?A? list bloggers are gatekeepers and other similar whining. I wrote about that here. Sure there is an ?A? list. So what? The ?A? list built the ?A? list. It...

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SEO Underground?

Posted on April 13, 2008
Probably the "best and the brightest" in the SEO space have always been underground. Any information shared with the masses at conferences and SEO Blogs (e.g. 10 best tips, techniques, etc.) is almost always link bait for the particular site/conference...

Law firms leveraging the Internet?

Posted on April 12, 2008
If you want proof that in fact most law firms are not leveraging the Internet go here and review how many inbound links some of the top firms in Florida have to their websites. Sure inbound links are not the...

Six Degrees of Separation

Posted on April 12, 2008
Some of my earliest telephony recollections were of sitcoms like "The Real McCoy" or "The Andy Griffith Show" where someone is cranking a phone, talking to an operator, and asking to speak to "Mabel". Or even closer to home, my...

It is early in web years!

Posted on April 09, 2008
I have been doing more than my usual share of hardcore surfing in preparation for the launch of a new ?digital venture.? Much of this has been related to SEO and online marketing in general. This post has been ?brewing?...

Lawyers Blaming IT? The song remains the same.

Posted on April 07, 2008
Link: Strategic Legal Technology :: Blaming IT. Ron has an interesting take on the results of the survey, and no doubt there is probably enough "blame" to go around, but the problem is more deeply rooted. Many knowledge workers are...

Anatomy of a ?Blogging will kill you? story?

Posted on April 07, 2008
Link: Anatomy of a ?Blogging will kill you? story: Why I didn?t make the cut | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com. This is too absurd a premise for it not to be link bait, an indication that in some perverse...

Are ideas worthless?

Posted on April 01, 2008
Link: Paul Buchheit: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the Mountain. Paul does a nice job here of shedding some light on recent conversations of interest regarding startups. But additional light is shed by some of the commentary. Why? Because...

Project Virgle

Posted on April 01, 2008
Link: Official Google Blog: Announcing Project Virgle. You may have to volunteer but I in fact was recruited for project Virgle (mission to Mars). In my case, I think it is a conspiracy to try and remove me from this...

If the CIA likes it, why wouldn't a law firm?

Posted on March 30, 2008
Link: Google has lots to do with intelligence. Search as a concept and technology is SO BIG that we have just started scratching the surface of what it can do. I wrote about it in Search, KM & the Practice...

Can't Live Everywhere Online!

Posted on March 30, 2008
Link: Loic Le Meur Blog: My social map is totally decentralized but I want it back on my blog. I think that Loic has got it right. I don't want to "live" in twenty different places online, although I might...

Habeas verbus ad subjiciendum

Posted on March 29, 2008
Ironically this week, just after posting about the fear of legal discovery in a world gone mad with out of control communication (Here), I heard of exactly that: a friend of mine who was named in a wrongful termination suit...

Web Content Management Goes Open Source

Posted on March 27, 2008
Link: Pirillo Starts Large Scale Community CMS Project. So what? Well here is the so what. The search engines (is there still more than one?) love quality content. However, quality content is hard to do even with the best Content...

Welcome "Senor Saah!"

Posted on March 23, 2008
I have been encouraging Chris Saah to lend his voice to the conversation for quite some time now. As CIO of a distributed organization with well over 1000 employees, he lives in the "trenches" and has both the "scar tissue"...

Plantation or the Law of Private Agreements?

Posted on March 23, 2008
Link: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Meanwhile, back at the plantation. Nick writes a populist post for the Internet masses (musicians in this case) which is not exactly what you might expect from him. It is quite well done and...

Pandemic in the Verbosphere

Posted on March 22, 2008
{I'm honored to be invited as a guest blogger by my good friend Carlos, and hope that my contributions will be worthy of the Leyva-man and his Web-Tones.} I remember hearing the results of one of those studies a few...

Flip: The Zen of Less is More

Posted on March 21, 2008
Link: Camcorder Brings Zen to the Shoot - New York Times. This a brilliant product (low end camcorder) not because of the features it has but because of those it lacks. Almost all of us have experienced "remote control hell"--the...

Making the Case for Law 2.0

Posted on March 20, 2008
Paul Lippe, founder and CEO of Legal OnRamp, makes the case for Law 2.0 here. His primary thesis? Well, it should sound familiar to Web-Tones readers: "cloud computing and Web 2.0 apps will transform the practice of law." OK, but...

Google Apps: Raising the Bar

Posted on March 19, 2008
Link: Google Spreadsheets Adds Gadgets, a Directory of Features. Google Apps just keep getting better and we are ONLY somewhere circa 1982 (in PC historical terms) in the evolution of the "cloud." As a recent convert (to the actual platform...

Social Networking Sites for Business

Posted on March 16, 2008
Link: Online Business Networking: 2 Horse Globalization Race - ReadWriteWeb. I believe that the value of these sites for businesses of all kinds is still underestimated. Sure there is tons of press for what the kids are doing on MySpace...

Google Apps Rock!

Posted on March 13, 2008
Why? Because of anywhere/anytime/any device(soon) access to all the necessary basic computing infrastructure that any small to medium size business might need! All the e-Bilities are in place: scalability, reliability & availability. In addition, the apps are highly functional today...

Musings on cloud computing--finding the onramp!

Posted on March 10, 2008
Link: Ericsson predicts demise of hotspots | InfoWorld | News | 2008-03-10 | By Mikael Rickn?s, IDG News Service. Ok, here is where the rubber meets the road. I am in the process of launching a "digital business" of sorts...

More Startup Advice

Posted on March 10, 2008
Link: A Couple of My Rules for Startups - Blog Maverick. Mark Cuban jumps in with more startup advice. Many of these rules apply to all startups, including law firms. The beautiful thing about the Net (at least one of...

How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips)

Posted on March 08, 2008
Link: How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips). Asttorneys thinking about going solo or starting a boutique firm (apparently many are) could benefit from "groking" this list. Keep your burn rate low and more money goes...

It is all beta, all the time!

Posted on March 07, 2008
Steve Jobs once said (or is given credit for saying) the following: "real artists ship." Now you can read whatever you like into this quote, but for me it says that you have to build something worthwhile and get it...

1000 Fans?

Posted on March 05, 2008
Link: Kevin Kelly -- The Technium. Kevin Kelly is one of my favorite elder statesman of the web and his advice regarding "1000 true fans" is applicable to any aspiring digital entrepreneur (he is specifically referring to artists) IMHO. You...

Feed the network and the network feeds you?

Posted on March 02, 2008
Link: Innovation comes cheap, says Google engineer Kevin Marks | The Social - CNET News.com. Clearly that is Google's vision vis-a-vis improving the ecosystem. Whenever the ecosystem prospers, Google gets a "little" (perhaps not so little) size of the increased pie...

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