Newport Beach, CA: “The network is more powerful than the node.”

Cyber-relationships are real, but they are rarely as full as what you get with real humans in a room. Last Thursday evening–and part of Friday morning, come to think of it–lawyer and blogger Craig Williams and his firm WLF|The Williams Lindberg Law Firm, PC in Newport Beach were kind enough to have my friend Ellen Bry and me to the firm’s Fifth Annual Fall Harvest Open House. In addition to 140+ lawyers, judges, consultants, luminaries and other guests, we met this trio: a fabulous magician who I should never play poker with; Leigh Dierck, a vivacious