Month: October 2005

  • October month in review

    Eric Zorn e-mailed me a couple weeks ago to participate in his popular month in review series, in which he surveys various Illinois bloggers for perspectives on which were the important stories of the month. With apologies to Eric (who, it should be noted, was warned this might happen), my suggestions are rather inwardly focused:…

  • Rebecca Adeline Klau

    Born this morning at 7:34am, Rebecca Adeline Klau: 6 pounds, 15 ounces and 19 inches long. Mom and baby are doing wonderfully, as soon as her oldest brother gets home from kindergarten, the boys get to go meet their new sister. Exciting times!

  • New camera

    In anticipation of our upcoming arrival, I brought home a new Canon S2 IS digital camera. It’s not an SLR — those are still a bit pricey for my tastes, and I likely wouldn’t take full advantage anyway… I’ve been out of the camera saddle for too long, spoiled by years of point-and-shoot. This camera…

  • Erik Heels on Tim McCarver

    Erik Heels: “When I was a kid, my cat chewed up Tim McCarver’s baseball card. Smart cat.”

  • The heard word

    These days it’s old news to say that marketing is a conversation, and that companies who ignore the blogosphere do so at their peril. (See Jarvis, Jeff for more.) Along with several other co-workers at FeedBurner, I’ve made monitoring the blogosphere part of my routine, thanks largely to services like Technorati. By setting up saved…

  • Giving gVisit a try

    gVisit.com is quite cool: insert a line of javascript in your website HTML, and it’ll spit out a Google mash-up of your website traffic against a map of the world. Here’s mine. Neat!

  • Favorite new blog

    I’ve been following the Long or Short? blog for a few months now, and it’s absolutely hysterical.

  • ProgressNow gets some ink

    My friend Bobby Clark gets some nice press in today’s Washington Post. Bobby’s the executive director at ProgressNow, whose website is geared towards organizing activists at the state and local level. This is exactly the kind of thing that is needed at a state level. Uptake has been slight so far, but I think they’re…

  • Let the bidding begin…

    According to Tristan Louis’s great analysis of the AOL acquisition of Weblogs, Inc., each inbound link at Technorati is worth around $564. Which means that my blog is worth around $150,000. Send your offers to rick at rklau.com. Heh. Update: Technorati just tweaked its index, and now says there are 413 inbound links, which means…

  • Interview on PC Talk

    A couple weeks ago I spent an hour in a wide-ranging interview about RSS, podcasting, advertising, and a whole bunch of other things related to FeedBurner. The interview, which airs nationally on Rich Levin’s PC Talk Radio program, is available online here.