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The American Lawyer has published a new survey, the A-List, which ranks the top 200 law firms according to the following methodology: revenue, pro bono, associate satisfaction, and diversity of the lawyers.
Chinese ID cards to carry genetic sample: The article reports that by 2004, government issued ID cards “will carry an 18-digit code representing a citizen’s genetic code, based on DNA from a blood, hair or cell sample.” This information comes via an article in the French news service transfert.net.
According to Matt Wells, owner of the search engine Gigablast, his site now supports boolean logic. “You should be able to do nested boolean queries using the traditional OR, AND, OR NOT and AND NOT boolean operators.” See his help page here.
Cost, Value and ROI for Knowledge Management in Law Firms Blogs for Public Lawyers Disaster Preparedness: Locking Out Former IT Personnel Choosing a Digital Camera Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) – Legal Definitions of Child P****graphy, Obs****ty and “Harmful to Minors” Notes from the Tech Trenches: Free News Alerts Privacy Under the FOIA vs. Historians/Journalists …
The Internet and Emergency Preparedness: A joint survey with Federal Computer Week magazine: this nine page (pdf) data memo documents 13 survey questions, and the answers provided by 1001 adult Americans (coincidentally conducted before the power outages that hit the eastern US, Toronto and Ottowa two weeks ago). From the summary: “Half of Americans fear …
This AP article documents the critical shortage of space at the Library of Congress, which houses the largest library collection in the world. The library is in the process of building offsite storage warehouses (as many as 13) in nearby Maryland.
From Jerry Lawson, news of a recently launched team blog with a distinguished and growing group of contributors, called eLawyer Blog, whose mission statement reads as follows: “This site has been established to promote the use of technology, especially the Internet, to improve the delivery of legal services to Americans of moderate to low income. …
As noted by OMB Watch, on August 29, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), an agency within the Office of Management and Budget, (OMB) released a draft bulletin “proposing a standardized process by which all significant regulatory documents (of the most important science disseminated by the federal government) will be subject to peer …
Cem Kaner, Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, posted on his blog the text of ten suggested principles that comprise a “Software Customer Bill of Rights” which he authored in an effort to “restore integrity and trust — and consumer confidence, consumer excitement, and sales – in this stalled marketplace.”
Newspapers Want to Charge for Content, but Will Readers Pay? Peter Krasilovsky, Senior Partner, Borrell Associates, a media consulting firm, speaking at a recent workshop on journalism, stated that “Paid content is a great way to make more money, but the real money is in advertising and marketing…”
According to this Washington Post article, the nation’s largest ISPs are responding to the recent escalation of email viruses (Blaster and SoBig.F) innundating customer accounts by planning to implement scanning applications to screen all attached documents. With as many as half of all incoming emails infected with viruses, AOL, Comcast, Microsoft, and Covad have already …
More news about radio frequency id tags, as RSA Security has published a detailed and informative white paper on the technology, which unbeknownst to many, is already ubiquitous in many aspects of our daily life, an example of which is the tags used by drivers on their car windshields which automatically scan and log toll …
