Best of the blogs: There’s a new buzzword and acronym on the block, and it’s Electronically Stored Information. “If you’ve not heard of ESI yet, you’d best get up to speed,” Ephraim Schwartz writes in The art of e-discovery. “The problem is, ESI is more a term of art than a deliberately defined set of rules.” It came about because of changes by the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure. But the FRCP is so vague companies need to create their own strategy. The biggest mistake companies make when devising their e-discovery strategy? “In-house lawyers and IT people never have lunch together,” answers Ralph Losey, an attorney specializing in e-discovery at law firm Akerman Senterfitt. From the Test Center: Monitoring systems to comply with regulations is an enourmous challenge, no question. To that end, Tablus now takes a distributed approach. “The company’s content detection is precise,” Mike Heck finds. “Tablus Content Sentinel 3.0 helps you gauge gaps in your data security by identifying content at risk on laptops, desktops, and servers. You can then take measures to protect this information before it moves or is misused.” Read the full review. Data management: Sean McCown shares some code you might enjoy. “I wrote this the other day to disable all user logins in SQL Server 2000,” he explains. So if you need to be the only one on the server in SQL for doing maintenance, troubleshooting, etc., then you’ll find this useful. “All this has come about because MS decided to not allow us to disable Windows groups. Now, I’m not saying that’s a good thing or a bad thing … I’m just saying it’s the reason we have to do it this way.” Notes from the field: Offshore gambling site BetUS.com is making book on the iPhone, Robert X. Cringely reports. “Odds are better than even the iPhone will sell more than 12 million units in 2008 (5 to 6) and Apple’s stock price will spike on June 30 (1 to 2),” he writes in Gambling on the iPhone. Cringe just cannot resist making his own odds, too. “Steve jobs will appear in public on June 29 wearing something other than a black turtleneck and jeans: 15 million to 1.” Technology Industry