Author: Rick Klau

Day 15: Defining keyboard shortcuts. One of the least known features of HTML is the accesskey attribute for links and forms, which allows the web designer to define keyboard shortcuts for frequently-used links or form fields. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access…

Here’s another good bit of coverage in ZDNet about InterAction. This one is about a VC firm (Sevin Rosen Funds) using InterAction, “saving the company money and improving efficiency and productivity.” In a soft economy, CRM for professional services firms can enable the management team to be more strategic in deciding what business to go…

Within our team, we have been surprised at how well the team klog has helped us to have a better understanding of what each of us is currently working on. We didn’t realize how much of our individual work was below the radar of our closest co -workers.  [David Gammel]I’m trying to convince our I.T.…

Six hours on the tarmac. One bag of cheddar pretzels and sun chips. Little air conditioning. Hot, humid New York Summer. “That’s it folks – they’re cancelling the flight.” Wait 30 minutes, then “Change in plans! We’re leaving after all!” We leave at 7pm, arrive O’Hare a little after 8pm, and I get home. As…

“I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION, (SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY NOW AVAILABLE), INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL”San Francisco — A U.S. federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional because…

… Or not. I left the Javits Center early, and got to LaGuardia in plenty of time to get on an earlier flight. It would be a sweet end to an otherwise exhausting month to get home early and relax. But the gods of air travel decided to hold on for just a little bit…

Check this out: you can get MSN Instant Messenger updates whenever your favorite blogs update. Nice. But what if you could combine with an RSS feed? Ooh… (Apologies in advance to any who are certain this makes no sense.) Geek stuff aside, there are some positive implications for any organization looking to rely on weblogs…

I think I’m on to something, but it’s definitely not there yet. I’ve changed my blogroll (for non-bloggers, a blogroll is simply a collection of links to other weblogs) to use the Radio Directory Outliner to organize the links. (You can see the early attempts at my home page.) Some advantages to this approach: I can incorporate by reference…

Jon Udell posts on Google and k-logging: My weblog buddies will enjoy this sidebar to an article on the Google search appliance. When I say “Google” in that piece, I mean it in a generic sense. Today we associate PageRank with Google. There will be other ways to pool human evaluation of information, and Google…

After lunch yesterday, I walked a few blocks over to Ground Zero. It doesn’t pack the emotional wallup that you might expect – the people working on the site have done an incredible job of turning it into a massive construction zone (and a clean, orderly one at that). What is incredible is the sheer…