Using a program called Concordance, I analyzed the headers of my first 3,700 posts, all 23,607 “tokens” – which includes entries such as “#45” – resulting from 6,064 different words (“types”). Linguists will note immediately the type/token ratio of 3.893. But let’s get to the exciting revelations. Here are the…
Since way back on Feb. 20, 2005, when this blog was delivered into the electronic world, there have been almost 3,700 posts. Of that mass, fully 35 percent of them have cited no earlier post, a practice I call back referencing (See my post of Nov. 16, 2008: data on…
Probabilities vs statistics. Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Pantheon Books 2008) at 122, explains the distinction between probability and statistics. “The former [probability] concerns predictions based on fixed probabilities; the latter [statistics] concerns the inference of those probabilities based on observed data.” Ignorant of the…
Since Feb. 12, 2008, I have published on Law Department Management 580 posts. Of them, 91 (16%) refer to no earlier post. However, the bulk of the posts during that nine-month period – 519 of them – point to prior posts and do so a total of 3,036 times. Five…
A short profile in Corp. Counsel, Vol. 15, Nov. 2008 at 61, about Markus Diethelm, the new general counsel of UBS, contains three nuggets. The first is that the predecessor of Diethelm, most recently the legal head of Swiss Re, was promoted in April 2008 to chairman of UBS. This…
This blog comes to the attention of online searchers in a variety of ways. One way is that other blawgs cite to posts here. I have been collecting some of the referral sites from the last few days and mention a number of them below. Thanks, all of you! Geoff…
With this post I have reached 200 embedded metaposts with URL links (See my post of Oct. 3, 2008: Part XIX.), each of which shows the number of references cited within them. Attributes of firms for purposes of selection (See my post of Oct. 22, 2008: law firm attributes important…
This blog comes to the attention of online searchers in a variety of ways. One way is that other blawgs cite to posts here. I have been collecting some of the unusual referral sites from the last few days and mention a number of them below. Thanks, all of you!…
Examples of secondments. GC Cal., June 2008 at 23, has an article by Lorelie Laird – in which a noted law department blogger is quoted – that refers to several law departments that have taken advantage of secondments. Laird discusses examples from Bayer, General Electric and Cisco. The article doesn’t…
Libor and a statistical technique for data. The London Rev. of Books, Sept. 25, 2008 at 11, explains that 16 banks call in their estimates of the interest rates at which their banks would borrow money. The group that calculates Libor [London inter-bank offering rate] “discards the lowest quarter and…