Since 3 Geeks is the forum for trying new things, I am going to try a live blog posting, as Toby speaks at the Business Intelligence for Law Firms Conference in New York. It is rare that a Geek and a Geek Groupie are in the same place at the same time, so I
According to Facebook Math, We're Worth $250K!!
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Of course the big IPO news this week is Facebook’s public launch and the latest round of estimates places its value at the IPO somewhere in the $100 Billion range. Unbelievable! No, seriously, that’s completely unbelievable, bordering on insane. At nearly 100
Creating a Disruptive Innovation – Disrupt Your Own Beliefs First
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When reading a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article by James Allworth called “Empathy: The Most Valuable Thing They Teach at HBS,” there was a line at the end that really stood out to me:
…this story seems to repeat itself over and over for disrupted companies: they go out of
Lying, Cheating, Fudging… 'meh…
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When I get up in the morning, I usually look over the day’s news feed via Google News, and my wife will occasionally chime in with the question “So, is the world going to Hell in a hand basket again this morning?” Which I usually reply, “yep…” then I laugh (because otherwise I’d have to cry.)
The Next Generation of Computers Practicing Law
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Last weeks’s post from Toby on “The First Time I Saw a Computer Practice Law” jogged my mind of my recent trip to Georgetown Law School and talking to Roger Skalbeck about assigning his class called “Technology, Innovation and Law Practice.” The major assignment for the class was to create
Thinking about What Makes a Blog a Blog
I was recently discussing with someone what exactly makes a blog a blog.
Is it the interactivity, the commenting, the archiving? Perhaps the cloud tags, the permalinks or the reverse-chronological order?
In my mind, all of these elements are not only optional but also secondary to the most critical aspect of a blog: RSS.
Most
Are Service Partners Second Class Citizens?
Following up on the post about The Dewey Situation, I had seen some dialog about how service partners are becoming second class citizens. First off – I define service partner as a partner with sufficient legal skills, but not one with a sufficient book of business. These are typically very good lawyers and their
Print Is Dead… Deal With It?
One of the listservs I joined early in my law library career was Teknoids (way back in 1997 or 1998.) Although it is made up primarily of techies in law school libraries and IT departments, I still love the conversations that go on. The conversation on what was titled “Everybody’s Favorite Topic…” was on what
The First Time I Saw a Computer Practice Law
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Niki Black, Jeff Brandt and some others have been having a Twitter dialog on the extent to which computers are currently able to replace lawyer functions. Part of the discussion centers around defining what is meant by replacing lawyers, which falls in to the old debate of
Beating a Dead Dewey Horse
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Although more than enough has been written about the impending demise of Dewey and the relative causes, I decided to go ahead and add my 2 cents to the dialog.
A recent blog post on the subject caught my eye. It made the assertion that, “Whether it’s Davis’s earlier “10-to-1″ spread, the