Category: Interesting Technology

A couple of weeks ago in Paralyzed by Choice – Too Many Tech Options I explained that with so many choices – mobile phones and carrier plans in particular – decisions are hard. Well, sometimes circumstances simplify the choice.  On Saturday, my BlackBerry died, which...

Economists tell us choice is good. It turns out though, only up to a point. Recent studies find that many people, when confronted with too many options, end up less satisfied. The fear of making ‘the wrong’ decision about changing my mobile phone and mobile...

The line between blogging and Tweeting just blurred a bit today.  Today, document assembly company Exari wrote the blog post The insidious nature of the billable hour. It discusses why the billable hour is a barrier to building document assembly tools. Central to its point...

Sometimes answers just fall into your lap unexpectedly. That happened to me today about Twitter.   I attended a lunch today of local legal knowledge management professionals. We meet monthly and at our last meeting, Twitter came up. One thing led to another I agreed...

In January 2006 I wrote about the promise of telepresence, which is high definition, room-encompassing, virtually-there video conferencing. Today I tried it and it’s great.  I attended a KM meeting today at the DC office of DLA Piper, hosted by my friend and former colleague...

PBworks (formerly PBWiki) launched today (28 April 2009) a legal market version of their signature collaborative Wiki. I had a pre-launch demo and it looks very good.  The company already has many AmLaw 100 firm users. A private group of large law firm KM professionals...

By now I assume most readers have at least heard of Twitter, a microblogging service. (If not, you definitely need to read this post).   Twitter allows anyone to create an account or home page – mine is http://twitter.com/ronfriedmann. You can then post, from a...