I like Twitteroo for my Windows laptop, and while I’ve seen some Linux tools, I hadn’t quite gotten around to getting any of them yet. On the other hand, after seeing something on Twitter from Kevin Devin about Tweetbar, I took a look at that, and lo and behold, why bother installing software when I can just use a Firefox extension? Awesome! I’ve got it loaded and running on my Ubuntu desktop right now.
Seems like just a few days ago that I was in front of a room, in Vegas, telling people about the importance of using rules, and any other sort of filtering mechanism, to get stuff out of your inbox so that the high-priority items are more easily located. Imagine my surprise when I saw that…
Your work emails are now worth millions of dollars — to lawyers Those of us who work in the eDiscovery field have known this for awhile, it’s what people put in emails that tells the true story, and nothing makes you appear guilty like hiding them. tags: LitSupport MM Why You Feel Like an Idiot…
The exposure to being hacked raises a lot of questions about the so-called Internet of Things. If everything is connected to the Net, then everything is tracking you, like my Fitbit. That information is valuable in and of itself to hackers looking to embarrass or blackmail people. But, as bad as that is, what is…
On a deeper level, though, I remember that before I got into eDiscovery and legal tech, I worked in tech support. Many of the smartest people in legal and cybersecurity started at a helpdesk. It’s the starting point for many long and successful IT careers. So, what will the next generation of tech workers be missing if that role goes away?
As I’ve heard many people say, the problem is not that having managers is bad; it’s that there are so many bad managers out there. We don’t treat managing and leadership with the attention and importance it deserves, mainly because we don’t realize how much it matters. Good management is boring. (A point made in more detail in the link below) I say that because good management has no drama and no chaos. It’s pretty simple communication about expectations and follow-through. Unfortunately, those managers don’t get highlighted in magazine features because they aren’t interesting. But that’s the point. Good management isn’t there to be entertaining in a reality-TV kind of way; it is there so that the team can get the job done.
I can’t say that I’m surprised by the announcement that Bloglines will be shutting down. Once upon a time, the service was one of the first to offer a web-based RSS reader, as opposed to a local client that polled RSS feeds for updates. As someone who uses quite a number of machines, that was…