Actually he lives in Gorizia, or so he told me in an E-mail after he explained to me how to fix my RssDistiller program. Okay, let me back up and explain. Paolo is a software guy (see here) and he created the RssDistiller program, which is now my favorite Radio plug-in because it lets me get Howard Bashman's feed in my News Aggregator (along with other people who have Blogger sites and don't natively supply the RSS feed). Anyway, somehow I messed up my RssDistiller (it's a long story, but it has heros and a plot and everything). So I wrote Paolo an E-mail describing my problem and he quickly wrote back and gave me the solution. We exchanged a few follow up emails, in which he invited me to come live with him for a year (just kidding), and he also taught me a few key Italian phrases (not kidding).
Here's the thing that I find amazing. Paolo creates this cool software, which I download and use without payment to Paolo. Then he even helps me fix a problem that I caused myself. I owe him something, for sure. In fact, I hereby offer to send Paolo something from New Orleans. Once again I am amazed by the power of the web. I have met so many wonderful people from having downloaded Radio. If there is poetic justice then people like Paolo (and of course, Dave Winer and others too numerous to mention) will wind up profiting handsomely from this product and various add-on components. To them I say (tell me if I get this wrong Paolo) ...Mille Gratzie.
10:27:11 PM
From Law.com: "A Marietta, Ga., insurance company faces up to $87,500 in damages for sending junk faxes to more than 1,000 local lawyers and law firms. Capitol Special Risks Inc. has reached a preliminary settlement with Malka & Trainor and the 1,051 attorneys and firms. Malka & Trainor sued Capitol last year under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and, during discovery, found the attorneys and law firms on Capitol's fax recipient list."
From Law.com: "Despite cutbacks and layoffs at Holland & Knight nationwide, Florida's largest law firm has consummated a deal a year in the making to double its presence in Chicago. The merger with 85-lawyer McBride Baker & Coles, scheduled to take effect July 1, will give Holland & Knight a total of 160 lawyers in four offices in the Chicago area and a total of 1,289 lawyers firmwide. "
Rick writes: "As a follow-up to the last post about personal KM challenges, I thought I'd share this e-mail I wrote to the TechnoLawyer list several weeks ago. (It still hasn't been distributed to the list for some reason, so at least now it has a home.) Might help some out there who are reading these blogs but not using the software understand why some of us are so excited by the possibilities. [tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]
Rick wonders why the TechnoLawyer discussion group has not posted his email. My guess is that whoever controls the Technolawyer group is not likely to want to publish Rick's glowing endorsement of a knowledge management tool that would render the E-mail-based TechnoLawer discussion group meaningless.
I enjoy the discussions that appear in the TechnoLawyer (that's where I learned about Roboforms), but I increasingly dread getting the emails. I'm hooked on the News Aggregator where I can read and re-route information quickly. I can even post items to my blog purely to archive them for my own later consumption. I wish everyone who gets the TechnoLawyer newsletter would get a Radio weblog. That would eliminate the centralized distribution (and the editorial control), which I think would be a good thing, but I can see where the editors of the newsletter would not.
9:40:26 PM
Case of interest to authors from Howard Bashman
Howard writes "[This] case will be of interest to aspiring professional authors. (There seem to be so many of you in the blogosphere that I have put the phrase in bold type to catch your attention.) As Judge Reinhardt explains in his introduction to the panel's opinion, "This case presents the question whether a publisher retains the right to reject an author’s manuscript written pursuant to a standard industry agreement, even though the manuscript is of the quality contemplated by both parties." The author in question, to quote again from the opinion, had written "a treatise on the intriguing subject of the law of fiduciary duty." Does the author win or does corporate legal publishing behemoth-defendant West Publishing Company prevail? Click here to find out." via [How Appealing]
3:32:27 PM
Instapundit on the Bush Speech and homeland security office.
InstaPundit writes "ONE OF THE INTERESTING THINGS I NOTICED about the homeland security speech last night was that Tom Ridge was referred to in the past tense. [more]
From Howard: "CRUNCH TIME: With just three weeks left before the U.S. Supreme Court's summer recess and 24 argued cases remaining to be decided, there is little doubt that the normally hardworking Justices and law clerks at the Court must now be toiling at their jobs nearly around the clock. Earlier this week Joan Biskupic, formerly U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for The Washington Post and now U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for USA Today, wrote a particularly insightful report on what life is like at the Court as the clock ticks down to the wire. You can access Ms. Biskupic's report here." via [How Appealing]
From GigaLaw: "A Marietta, Ga., insurance company faces up to $87,500 in damages for sending junk faxes to more than 1,000 local lawyers and law firms. Capitol Special Risks Inc. reached a preliminary settlement last month with Malka & Trainor and 1,051 attorneys and firms."
From GigaLaw: "The maker of Chia Pets -- those terracotta planters that grow into bushes resembling bunnies, pigs and even Mr. T -- has sued NeoPets, the wildly popular virtual pet site, alleging cybersquatting. Joseph Enterprises Inc., which markets the planters through TV commercials with the "Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia Pet" jingle, argues NeoPets has illegally registered domain names including chia.info and chia.biz."
10:07:00 AM
Denise Howell Unplugged - Read the Interview that everyone is talking about
Frank Paynter interviewsDenise and unearths a lot of really interesting information about the editor or Bag & Baggage. I sort of skimmed it so I can't give the definitive analysis, but I noticed that one paragraph contains a reference to the "Magna Carta" and also the "Naked Sierra Clubbers." So I guess I would have to say that the interview is pretty wide-ranging.
9:56:09 AM
