Tuesday, November 13, 2012

I'll repeat my call for compilation of a “Worst Practices” list so any idiot can see what not to do. Meanwhile, I'll serve them up piecemeal.
"Hardcoded usernames and passwords have been discovered in a recent line of Telstra broadband routers that allow attackers access to customer networks. The flaws meant customer unique passwords could be bypassed to access the device administrative console and LAN."


“We have no idea how to make money off of those tweets, so we'll just forbid them.”
"GeekWire's Taylor Soper reports that the University of Washington has capped live sports coverage at 20 Tweets per basketball game (45 for football) and threatens to revoke the credentials of journalists who dare exceed the Twitter limits. Tacoma News Tribune reporter Todd Dybas was reportedly 'reprimanded' after drawing the ire of the UW Athletic Dept. for apparently Tweeting too much during UW's 85-63 Sunday win over Loyola."


This can't be good. If a Google search is returning Images as they do text how would they know that an Image is defaming any more than they would know an article was false/biased/sarcastic/etc.
"Should Google be held liable for images that appear in its search results? An Australian court has said yes. 'A Melbourne man who won a defamation case against search engine giant Google has been awarded $200,000 in damages. Milorad Trkulja, also known as Michael, sued the multinational over images of him alongside a well-known underworld figure that appeared in its search results. A six-person Supreme Court jury found last month that Mr Trkulja had been defamed by the images, which he first contacted Google about removing in 2009.'"


Interesting, if only to prove that lawyers are just like anyone else... (Shocking, I know)
November 12, 2012
White Paper - Thinking Like Your Client: Strategic Planning in Law Firms
Thinking Like Your Client: Strategic Planning in Law Firms - A report from ALM Legal Intelligence, October 2012. "LexisNexis has spent the past few years highlighting the difference between the practice of law and the business of law; and the lackluster economic conditions over that same time span have only served to reinforce how important those differences are. Without a doubt, law firms have a thorough and detailed understanding of the practice part; that’s their forte. It’s the business of law part where shortfalls occur.
  • Revenue is the top priority in most strategic plans. Yet, almost half of the respondents are remiss in building, tracking and measuring client loyalty and satisfaction. Are firms overlooking the direct link between revenue and satisfied customers?
  • Profitability is the second strategic plan priority. But, fewer than half are actively focused on a non-billable hour strategy, and more than half can’t yet tell if AFAs are more profitable than hourly rates. AFAs and various pricing models have been around for a few years; they are not going away. Isn’t it time to honestly reexamine the elements that make your firm profitable?
  • Talent acquisition/retention holds the third top spot for strategic priorities, although laterals dominate the discussions and, apparently, everyone’s plans. How sustainable are growth models tied to an on-going “musical chairs” game of lateral talent shifting from firm to firm? Is anyone focused on a plan for organic growth?"


“Ye olde technology is ye beste technology” I know a couple lawyers who won't use a computer until it's easier to press the keys with their quill pens...
November 11, 2012
New on LLRX - Litigation, trial and pre-trail iPad apps for lawyers
Via LLRX - Litigation, trial and pre-trail iPad apps for lawyers: One of the most popular and rapidly growing categories of apps for lawyers are those developed for litigation, during trials and during the pretrial discovery phase. In this article, attorney, legal blogger and legal tech expert Nicole Black recommends more than a dozen affordable, flexible and innovative iPad apps to assist attorneys in their work to develop, streamline, simplify and track critical litigation processes.


I have lots of vets in my classes, so this has a future...
Iraq Veterans Launch RallyPoint: A LinkedIn For The Military (And Life After)
… According to The Bureau of Labor Statistics, while the unemployment rate among U.S. veterans has dropped to 8.3 percent, it still sits above the national average, and for younger vets, the rate is even higher. Taking up the cause of their fellow service men and women looking for a better way to find employment after life in the armed forces, two Iraq War veterans, Yinon Weiss and Aaron Kletzing, have launched RallyPoint — an online professional network that aims to empower American veterans to take greater control over their careers — both inside and outside the service.
… So, the co-founders have developed RallyPoint into a private online network accessible only by those currently on active duty, which extends to those in the National Guard, Active Reserves, ROTC or Service Academies. In the near future, Weiss says, the team will be opening the network up to former service members, retirees, Department of Defense employees, and so on. But for not, it’s focused purely on those currently serving in the armed forces.
RallyPoint is free for members and has no formal relationship with the military and doesn’t share its data with the military or chain of command, the co-founders said.


Free is good. Infinite is good. Free and Infinite is very good.
Many of us deeply value some of the tools that exist out there which make our lives so much easier. One of the best examples is Dropbox, the application which seamlessly synchronizes our files across all of our devices.
… The only real downside to Dropbox is the limited amount of storage space we can synchronize.
Bitcasa plans to change that. In short, Bitcasa is a synchronization tool which gives infinite space to whichever folders you’d like. Unlike Dropbox, Bitcasa’s main focus is actually expanding your folder’s available storage space to a virtually unlimited amount rather than synchronization. This is achieved by simply connecting the folder to Bitcasa’s cloud, where you aren’t limited to a quota.
However, the service does come with a good amount of additional features, including synchronization, easy sharing, encrypted storage, and access via their website.
While Android and iOS applications are still in the works, BitCasa is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux to allow true access from any computer.


Automate everything?
Let the web do the work. A wide variety of tools are dedicated to saving you time. From email to social media to your own website, you could be wasting time doing things free services could do for you, automatically. Getting these services working takes a bit of knowledge, time and creativity, but they almost always pay off.
Interested? Then it’s time to read “Web Automation, Part 2“, by author Rahul Saigal. This manual picks up where Web Automation Part 1 left off. This time Rahul outlines ways to automate collecting citations, collecting reading material, your files on the cloud and even your website.
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Is Dilbert taking a shot at Mitt Romney? Sometimes the best thing you can say is, “I think I'll keep my mouth shut.”

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