Author: Rick Klau

For sheer excitement, I can’t imagine that anything on TV is better than 24 this season. I love that even though I’ve been traveling most of the last two weeks, I was able to get caught up on the last two episodes of 24 last night by watching Tivo. That it was Nina who helped…

Travel schedule has been nuts. Boston, Phoenix, Philadelphia and New York last week. I’m in London now (and will be back again for a day and a half next week). I keep telling myself that the whole family is going to Florida for a week for free thanks to this insane travel schedule. Posts will…

From Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, an opinion piece by Jeffery Sonnenfeld, the associate dean at Yale School of Management. Titled “Three Cheers for Charisma”, it’s an attempt at resstablishing the need for charisma in the senior executive post. The article is motivated in part on some recent academic studies (he doesn’t name which ones) trying…

I’ve flown close to 100,000 miles this year, and am alarmed at a trend that I’ve witnessed in dozens of airports: men talking on cell phones while in the bathroom. Do women do this too? It’s bad enough that you have to hear their conversation echoing throughout the walls of the bathroom – but I…

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A number of people have e-mailed me asking how our pilot project is going. Quick recap: around the beginning of October, I started testing out a k-log (“k-log” is the unfortunate acronym that refers to a knowledge weblog – a system in which several employees use weblogging tools to share information internally). We chose to…

A K-Log Pilot Recap by Rick KlauOriginally published: November 11, 2002Comments/questions: E-mail me To any who are interested, I thought I’d give an update on our month-old pilot of a Radio-based k-log. (For more on k-logs generally, check out the archive of the K-Logs group at Yahoo. In short: it’s a network of weblogs throughout an…

Many thanks to Phil and to Matt for encouraging me to check out Ryze. After just a couple weeks of experimenting, I can say that it works – and already I’m surprised to report reestablishing a correspondence that lapsed ten years ago. I set up my page on Ryze two weeks ago, and several people…

Ross Mayfield writes: 1) The time cost of email is driving adoption of other modes of communication like blogs and online communities like Ryze. 2) Blogging is at the early adopter phase.  Today the majority of users are programmers or writers. For blogging to cross the proverbial chasm, the whole product needs to support the needs…

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