Author: Rick Klau

If you live in Chicago-land and like music, Naperville is the place to be this weekend. Friday night – David Crosby. Saturday – Blues Traveler. Sunday – Sponge, Seven Mary Three, Spin Doctors and Gin Blossoms. Monday – Sonia Dada. Oh yeah – tickets are $5 (Monday’s free). Visit the Last Fling web site for…

Does anyone out there know how to create a Radio macro that will automatically number paragraphs? (I would like each post to include paragraph numbers; they wouldn’t be sequential.) If you do, drop me a line.

John Robb reports on the difference of meeting someone through their blog: … The difference with people that have weblogs is: 1) We don’t have to exchange business cards.  They know where I am located on the Internet.  I know where they are located on the Internet.   My personal weblog has spam-free e-mail, and a link to…

Without a doubt, Ernie has got to be one of the top two or three Swedish-Colombian lawyer bloggers on the Internet living in New Orleans (rim-shot). Check out his post on Five Minute Legislation. Says Ernie: “The current system produces many convoluted laws that clearly don’t work and cause enormous confusion, so how much worse could it…

Jim McGee’s post “Making people smarter isn’t the point“ got me thinking about a couple parallel threads going on in a number of blogs in the past week:Phil Windley points out that he has trouble pulling ideas out of people’s heads, and I respond that you wouldn’t always know which ideas to pull.Matt Mower and Lilia…

Thanks to Jason Kottke for pointing this out: Comedian is coming to a theater near you. The trailer is a riot.

I have grown to really like liveTopics. Converting from Radio’s categories to liveTopics has been cumbersome (as it matures, I imagine Matt might offer a conversion utility), but worth it. You can now browse a topical outline of all posts on this site here; it is now complete for July and August. I will periodically…

Ray Ozzie (co-founder of Lotus Notes, and currently behind the promising Groove) has encouraged his employees to use weblogs for KM, knowledge sharing, and – let’s face it – PR. I’m behind him on all three counts. He asked Groove’s counsel to come up with a corporate policy on blogs for employees. The resulting policy…

MSNBC.com: The Transportation Security Agency may stop asking ridiculous questions about your bags: “All passengers do not pose equal security threats,” Wascom said. “Why should we continue to ask these simple questions of everyone? We should be focusing on people who are higher security risks.”I have a suggestion. For whatever reason, I think I’m the…

Gnomedex is LIVE right now in Des Moines, Iowa – but thanks to the fine folks at PlayStream, we can bring you a real-time audio feed of the event (no matter where you live in the world)! Listen in Windows Media format live, with multiple archive formats available for download following the show, including QuickTime,…