These agencies don't need for us to give up more of our freedoms. They need to learn how to do their jobs better. And this failure isn't a failure to use technology; it's a failure of the most primitive kind.
7:58:57 PM
From Daily Rotten: "Three young Amish men have been charged in a late-night buggy race in the Town of Leon in which a collision with a fourth buggy left a horse dead." [Story Link]
When will these kids learn to slow down and quit obsessing with technology?
1:41:06 PM
Howard Bashman's Monday Lineup
from Howard: "COMING TOMORROW: The U.S. Supreme Court, on Monday, June 3, 2002, is scheduled to issue more opinions and orders. I will post my summary of those opinions and orders here by tomorrow night. For now, you can access my reports on previous weeks' developments at the Court here, here, and here."
Oh man! I finally got my RssDistiller to pull in Howard's site. This is cool! One more treasure for my NAGG. Oh, I saw Denise's post about mixed feelings with news aggregators. I don't know about those other NAGG's. I only know about Radio, and it is amazing. Look, I'd pay $40 a year just for the ability to use the news aggregator. Sooner or later we'll all meet up in Userland, where the air is clear and clean and populated by artisans working to make the software even better than it already is.
1:11:09 PM
Tracking law firm alumni - it's a good idea but not a lot of firms do it.
From Excited Utterances: "What else can a law firm do to beef up it's CRM and it's recruiting efforts at the same time? Tracking Law Firm Alumni, a recent article in the New York Law Journal, describes efforts by some law firms to keep in touch with their alumni. This seems like a logical step for any large law firm that is planning it's CRM strategy, or is thinking about rehiring some of it's former associates.
One way to maintain relationships with departing associates is to create an alumni page on your firm website. Firms that have already taken the plunge are Skadden, Arps, Proskauer Rose, Cadwalader, Wickersham, and Blank Rome. New York based, SelectMinds Inc. offers the web-based Corporate Alumni Solution (CAS) which includes, among other things, an online alumni directory, a recruitment management system, online discussions, and messaging.
This makes sense, and I'm glad to see that BigLaw is taking to it. It is natural state of affairs that people leave one place for another. I notice that Howard pays homage to the firm that he was at before he wound up at Buchanan Ingersoll.
Incidentally, to answer Jenny's question: yes I was able to add excited utterances as an RSS feed using the RssDistiller tool.
12:53:52 PM
Ringling Bros. Hires former CIA guys. Can you guess what for?
From CNN: A lawsuit charges that the circus guys hired to spy guys to snoop on the animal-rights activist guys (aka PETA). Please, let's forget about litigation. Sell the rights to Jerry Bruckheimer and you can all walk away winners.
10:53:24 AM
Wild about Wi-Fi - From the Mainstream Press
In Newsweek: War-Driving, Pringles cans, the whole bit, but now from the BigJo.
10:46:11 AM
Let's forget the whole 'Blog thing - I just want my NAGG.
I installed the RSS stuff that Mark Pilgrim created and now I sort of "get it." I went to Syndic8 and and tested the "subscribe" feature (which lets you subscribe to a feed from your links section of the browser toolbar). Okay, I admit it's cool and simple, and so I added some more feeds last night. But that got me to thinking...
I realize that I'm now addicted to my News Aggregator (which I call my "NAGG"). Even if I decided never to post another blog entry I would never give up my NAGG. I am subscribed to 88 news sources currently, and let me tell you brother it's not enough. From the mundane to the sublime. I get NFL news, and news on the Saints -- so I always know about their trades and acquisitions (and I know before I get home and watch the local sports on TV). I get a pretty good selection of offbeat news and what I miss (which is a lot), other bloggers seem to catch pretty well (Boing Boing is a great resource for this and other things). And of course, I get a lot of legal news. But the amazing thing is how little I now rely on traditional news sources for breaking news.
It's really funny now when people ask me "say did you hear that..." And I say "yeah, I blogged about that two days ago." The other day I had another small epiphany. I followed the Ken Layne pointer to a New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh and posted a short thing about the FBI's mishandling of intelligence information before 9/11. I thought it was strange that an article from the New Yorker was available online, but I was in a hurry to post and get back to something else. Two days later I was in my friend Greg's office and he had a copy of the New Yorker sitting on his desk. I asked if it was the latest copy and he said it was so I picked it up and looked to see if the Hersh article was in there (it was, which surprised me a little bit because I didn't think that the New Yorker would post such fresh content online). I mentioned to him that the Hersh article was a good read, thinking it was ironic that usually he sends me his New Yorkers after he is done with them, with yellow post it notes marking the worthy articles, and here I am (a non-subscriber) telling him what is worth reading in his freshly delivered copy. As I was leaving he asked if I how I knew about the article, and I said....well you know what I said.
10:24:29 AM
