The MLS Players Association leaked players salaries again this year. There’s some real bargains in there (and some kids who must be living at home with their parents while the play a professional sport). In fact, I’ll assemble a team that could easily test a mid-table Premiership squad. We’re talking world-class quality here, for under a million greenbacks. Behold, a classic 4-4-2 that will make Everton weep:

Goalie
GK Reis, Matt $100,000 (hey, splurge on the goalie. you’ll only need one)
Defense
D Serioux, Adrian $90,000
D Dunivant, Todd $95,000
D Parkhurst, Michael $63,250
D Wynne, Marvell $47,500
Midfield
M Mapp, Justin $95,000
M Martino, Kyle $81,675
M Nunez, Ramon $75,000
M Dempsey, Clint $75,863
Forward
F Rolfe, Chris $50,000
F Cooper, Kenny $55,000
F Gomez, Hercules $47,000 (just for fun, a twelfth man, Mr. Assist himself)

Grand Total
$875,288

Ye gods! By Hercules, we’ve assembled a band of fleet-footed mighty men, and still have moolah left for the kit & caboodle that these boys might demand. Red Bull and Twinkies for all! I dare you to find another league in the world with these kinds of deals.

Blue Light Specials
GK Guzan, Brad $47,250
D Ihemelu, Ugo $50,000
M O’Rourke, Danny $34,125
M Davis, Brad $77,500
M-F Storey, Marcus $11,700
F Kamara, Kei $30,000

April 29th, 2006 | Soccer | 10 comments

After posting about why wikis suck for law firms, I’m finding my concerns both ignored, addressed, and transcended. But one use of wikis that I did not consider was to do cross-firm collaboration on legal matters. Thanks to Evan Schaeffer for promoting this to my attention.

I have also had a little more experience with wikis since my original post, and would like to modify my thoughts regarding their use. Mainly, wikis work best when they create a resource for a group, rather than replace, supplant, or build off of existing resources.

That’s my experience with smaller (”We don’t do wikis because we have no control over them.” Control may be distracting, but its not a worthwhile objection. All but the most Enron of places want to leverage the skillsets of their employees. Sorry, that’s my attempt at corporatese. Anyway, once you frame social software in terms of knowledge management and project collaboration, the red herring of control dries up.

April 27th, 2006 | Firm, IT, Information, Law, Technology, Wiki | No comments