Delusions of Adequacy

October 7, 2006

Reluctant Nomad has assembled a list of some of history’s best insults. One attributed to Abraham Lincoln ought to be resurrected: “He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.”

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The Price of Leadership

October 6, 2006

Our Prime Minister is quoted today as having said that the Canadian death toll in Afghanistan is the price of leadership. I think Harper’s speechwriters have unintentionally raised a growing issue – whose leadership? Canada’s in the world, as Harper says, or his as Prime Minister?

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Who Visits MySpace?

October 6, 2006

One of the big stories yesterday was the comScore report suggesting that “Half of MySpace Visitors are Now Age 35 or Older”. Others have jumped on – GigaOm got some confirmation from Fox, MySpace’s owner, on the numbers (though many of the comments seem quite sceptical). My initial reaction to the headline was “get a […]

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Lawyers Weekly Article

October 6, 2006

I had the pleasure recently of being interviewed by Lawyers Weekly for a piece on marketing by lawyers.

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Google – YouTube Rumour

October 6, 2006

TechCrunch posts on a “completely unsubstantiated” rumour of a Google acquisition of YouTube for $1.6B. Interesting – perhaps the only acquiror who might do this deal regardless of copyright controversy, and regardless of current business model considerations.

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Another Adventure for Mark Evans

October 5, 2006

My friend and mesh partner Mark Evans is going to have his hands full for the next little while. Not only does he have a new son, but now, a new job too. Mark has announced that he’s leaving the National Post, where he was senior technology reporter, to join b5media as VP Operations. b5media […]

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General Counsel – Tucows

October 5, 2006

Tucows is advertising a superb opportunity in Toronto for a tech-oriented lawyer with an appetite for a widely varied practice that runs the gamut from public company counsel work, to corporate development, to commercial tech work. Please note the ad in the left column and click through for more information. And if you know of […]

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b5media Gets Funded

October 4, 2006

Details to follow, I expect, But JL Albright and Brightspark have funded b5media. Press release here. A Canadian first.

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Freshbooks 3.5

October 4, 2006

My mesh partner Mike McDerment and his Freshbooks colleagues have launched a new version of their online invoicing service – details in their post. As another of my mesh partners Mark Evans has noted, the new version has a very interesting feature: One thing that makes v3.5 different is Freshbooks asks for the user’s profession/industry. […]

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The HP Saga: Lockyer Lowers the Boom

October 4, 2006

The moment in the HP saga that many have been expecting has arrived: California AG Bill Lockyer is indicting Patricia Dunn and four others: In addition to Ms. Dunn, Attorney General Bill Lockyer intends to indict Kevin T. Hunsaker, a former senior lawyer at H.P.; Ronald L. DeLia, a Boston-area private detective; Joseph DePante, owner […]

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The HP Saga: HP Advised by RAND to Use Pretexting

October 3, 2006

The NYT lands what seems to me to be a bombshell into the middle of the HP story: HP was advised by Brian Jenkins of the RAND Corporation, a former deputy chairman of Kroll (and appointed by President Clinton to be a member of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security), to use […]

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When Bad Options Happen to Good People

October 3, 2006

It would seem that The Recorder is developing a bit of a fetish for Larry Sonsini. Fresh on the heels of unflattering coverage in the HP saga and unwelcome mentions in the course of the option backdating scandal, there now appears to be some question about a presciently-timed grant to the Novell board, including Sonsini, […]

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