Author: Rick Klau

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The gates were padlocked and hundreds of fans of the Charleston Riverdogs gathered outside Joe Riley Stadium on Monday night . It wasn’t a strike of any kind, just another outlandish promotion by the Riverdogs, the Class A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Everybody except employees, scouts and media was…

MSNBC.  Level 3 taps Warren Buffett’s money for a roll-up strategy in telecom.  Will Warren play the role in telecom that JP Morgan played in railways? [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]

From today’s New York Law Journal: “It seems clear, though, that the more involved law librarians are in the marketing process — such as by attending firm marketing meetings, joining the marketing committee and having a say in marketing decisions — the better the services will be that they can provide.”While I don’t disagree with…

The only thing shocking about eBay’s acquisition of PayPal for $1.5 billion is why eBay waited until after PayPal’s successful IPO. This is a good move ( combination of two market leaders), but Meg really should have done this a year ago. I think what probably tipped it (this is just a guess) is that…

It’s official: InterAction 5 is coming. (For those just joining us: I work at Interface Software, the company responsible for InterAction.) Last month’s press tour was a run-up to this announcement; we’ll be shipping the product this quarter. This is a major release, and the feedback from the analyst community has been very positive. I’ll get…

There are several things about the weblog world that I like. Chief among them is that there is so much development across different (and competitive) applications. Radio Userland supports the Blogger API (meaning that you can post to a Blogger weblog from Radio). And now Blogger users can create RSS feeds, an endorsement of a…

I’m playing around with a DHTML menu I found at Soaked Hornet’s site the other day. The menu is written by a guy in the UK, and is pretty slick. Go to the home page to see it in action; I’ll probably republish my entire site so that the menu is added to all pages. Let…

Anyone reading this blog can now see which categories I’ve posted to for each post. I think categories are a powerful feature of Radio – they let me route content to separate blogs (for instance, to post something to Radio for Lawyers I just send it to that category, Radio takes care of uploading it…

Go figure – Peggy Noonan says in today’s Wall Street Journal that blogging is patriotic. (Thanks for the pointer, Dad.) “The 24-7 opinion sites that offer free speech at its straightest, truest, wildest, most uncensored, most thoughtful, most strange. … Blogs may one hard day become clearinghouses for civil support and information when other lines,…

I’m less interested in the possibility of plot holes than some of the commenters, but there’s a good discussion going on over at kottke.org about the central themes of Minority Report. Check it out. (Warning: many, many spoilers.)