Author: Rick Klau

Anyone aware of an easy way to add a photoblog to Movable Type? My new cell phone arrives tomorrow, it’s got a camera built in. I’d like to experiment with setting up a family blog that will have the ability to take pictures and have them uploaded to the blog automatically. I know there are…

Stephen says it best: “as a kid, Reagan was the very definition of a president.” I was 9 when Ronald Reagan was elected. My family was very much Republican at the time (my Dad worked on George W. Bush’s 1980 presidential bid), and I liked Reagan. I remember playing in Scott Prudhomme’s front yard when…

Just the other day, Ernie complained about his Treo: “I conclude having everything dependent on software (and software upgrades) creates its own set of annoyances and problems.” True, but there’s also an emerging trend (trend? well, two that I know of so far. Good enough for me) in automobiles that have more and more software:…

Wire reports have President Reagan in failing health. If this is the end, I hope it’s a peaceful one for he and his family. Hard to imagine he’s 93 years old. Update: CNN.com is reporting that a spokesperson for Reagan’s family is downplaying the rumors of Reagan’s imminent death. Most interesting, from the CNN report,…

Marc Canter points to our most recent case study, about Ziff Davis’s gaming division 1up.com. Total savings for a 50 person team: 25% time reduction in product development, $1m soft cost time savings by reducing group e-mails from 100 to zero. It’s great when you see customers realizing real, dramatic benefits. Thanks to Marc and…

D.L. Hughley is in Soul Plane, a movie that’s received, um, tepid reviews. At the beginning of tonight’s Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Hughley stated up front: “It was a shitty movie, alright? I could try and defend it, claim I was an artist… but I won’t. My wife wanted to go to Jamaica.” Now…

Lots of talk lately that e-mail is dead. At the Inbox Event (ongoing, see our EventSpace for a good discussion from today’s panel discussion), many are trying to figure out how to deal with spam. And the Online Journalism Review writes today that many publishers are contemplating RSS as the answer to their newsletters getting…

Any man who can work Beck, court technology and litigation consultants into the same post deserves loads of respect. Check out the DennisKennedy.blog to see how he did it.

Hiram Wurf reports on the most recent vote of the Naperville City Council, on a vote to widen an intersection not far from my house. Hiram was the cornerstone of the Dean efforts in DuPage County, and was inspired by that involvement to run for local office (County Board). Help him out, spread the word…

Interesting. The conventional wisdom (most recently presented in Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball) is that Illinois will almost certainly elect Barack Obama as our next Senator. I’m helping the campaign out, and certainly hope he gets elected. But apparently the Republicans haven’t gotten the memo that Barack’s a shoo-in: last month Bill Frist was in town,…