Entries from June 1, 2004 - June 30, 2004

Friday
Jun042004

California Blawging

The California Lawyer looks at legal weblogs in its June cover story by Susan E. Davis: Rants, Rulings, Recipes: Lawyers and other legal professionals speak their minds on the Web.

Friday
Jun042004

There Oughta Be A Law

Kevin Heller mined Craig's List and found a casting call for a "last lawyer standing" reality TV show à la The Apprentice. Turns out, as Kevin describes, both Fox and NBC have such shows in the works for fall. Truth is unquestionably stranger than fiction — let's just hope it's more entertaining, too.

Thursday
Jun032004

"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."

The Gucci iPod Case. Wilde would love it.

Wednesday
Jun022004

In The Clear

In my comments, Westy, in addition to providing some great WEP and networking tips, points to a Slate article by Jack Shafer, E-mail Confidential, in which the author turns his "175-pound Samoan attorney" loose on the "extraordinary 114-word 'disclaimer' sloshing around at the bottom" of an email from a Time, Inc. journalist. Pithy observations abound, such as "[S]ending a confidential or valuable message via insecure e-mail is a funny way to preserve a secret," plus there are links to the disclaimers dubbed the longest, most PC, and most incomprehensible by the Register in 2001.

[Update:] Speaking of disclaimers

Tuesday
Jun012004

Product Development Central

Someone should do this with babies (hell yes there's a market; we play music for them in utero, for Pete's sake), and this with bloggers (wherein you could at least get a taste of the real OC).