Month: March 2006

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ATT To Acquire BellSouth

"This merger is a logical next step that creates substantial value for customers and stockholders of both AT&T and BellSouth," said AT&T Chairman and CEO Edward E. Whitacre Jr.

SBC – News Room

 
Oh, it’s the next logical step alright.  So in 1984 ATT was split into 7 regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOC), with ATT getting the lon distance biz and some other stuff.  Now, a little over 20 years later, Ma Bell is back.  BellSouth was the last of the original RBOCs existing as it did when created in 1984, now it is just another cog in the great Bell machine once again.   ATT now consists of 4 of the 7 ROBOCs, what’s left of the LD biz and the largest wireless operation in the  country.  So much for competition and innovation.  I hope everyone still has there big black phone.

 

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Who’s Blogging the ABA TECHSHOW?

As always, this year’s ABA TECHSHOW conference features some of the finest speakers on legal technology. And like last year, many of those speakers are also bloggers. So I decided to continue the tradition started last year of listing the ABA TECHSHOW bloggers, in this month’s edition of The Strongest Links. You’ll no doubt recognize many of them as mainstays of the legal blogging world, but there are some new blogs in this year’s crop that are bound to catch your attention as well.

Law Practice Today | ABA TECHSHOW Bloggers

 TECHSHOW is like the CALI Conference for the real lawyer set.  I have heard that this year’s sessions may be podcast.  If it happens, that sudio would certainly be of interest ot some teknoids.

 

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Talk to the Ether

Get your free Ether Phone Number. Set your rate. Set your hours.Your phone only rings when people pay to talk to you.

Ether: Earn money selling what you say.

Intriguing concept.  I do wonder about how this would really work though.  Is there a feed back system, some sort of karma, reputonics, something that helps me find just the right person to talk to.  I wonder if I could replicate something like this with Skype and Ebay?  And how does this scale for the seller?  I only have so much time to talkand it is a finite amount of time.  Of course if I get really good I could just keep raising my rates.

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ePresence

ePresence – I’m watching a live presentation on the new release of ePresence.  From their website:

ePresence Interactive Media softwareis a content capturing, archiving, and webcasting system that deliversvideo and presentation media over the internet using multiple streamingformats for multiple platforms. ePresence also supports text and voiceinteraction among event participants.

In an IE window I’m watching a webcast that includes live audio and video, PowerPoint slides, and text chat.  It also handles VOIP and screen capture.  Some parts of this are Open Source, but the best bits are available only to consortium members.  Of course anyone can join the consortium:)
This looks like what we need for the conference web cast. 
Notes

  • On Windows only works properly in IE.  Firefox gets some of the webcast, but not audio and video.  Mac users are reporting problems also.
  • Open source bits are built on Helix, it seems but might be tightly tied to Windows on client side.
  • Linux version of server is available.
  • Producer will generate MP3s and RSS feed for podcasting.
  • VOIP does work, viewers are suing it to ask the presenter questions.

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