Link roundup for 6/24/08

By Ben Gross
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E-Discovery Leads to Arrest of Bear Stearns Hedge Funds Managers: The Wall Street & Technology Blog covers the depressingly evergreen story of senior management who send messages from their personal accounts about company actions that are illegal. This email about Bear Sterns acknowledged that a senior manager knew the fund was collapsing even though they announced that the fund was in good shape. As is the case in this story, these messages are usually recovered in the case electronic discovery.

Confessions of a former e-mail packrat: Macworld editor, Kelly Turner, writes about the process of changing her email management strategy to limit the number of messages in her inbox that are not filed. She reports that while the results are not perfect, so far it seems to be working well.

Trending Low-Volume Google Search Terms - Introducing Gootrude: Michael Rash released a small open source project that allows you to make rough estimates on the popularity of terms in the Google index over time and compare them to other terms. Rash’s idea was that it allowed him to follow terms that fell below the minimum number of queries in Google Trends. While the data is clearly not as rich as the data in Google Trends it could be useful for some projects.

Published June 24, 2008