Author: Rick Klau

(Apologies in advance to those of you reading who don’t have Radio installed, and don’t care to. You can skip this.) Radio’s News Aggregator has dramatically changed my browsing habits. In many ways, it’s the aggregator that makes Radio a truly viral application: while the weblog component makes me a content producer, it’s the aggregator…

I just finished reading the Salon article mentioned a minute ago, and there’s a compelling suggestion in there, one I hadn’t thought of: what if, while browsing a site, you could see what other blogs said about that site? Just click a button, and see a list of sites that had pointed to the site…

Salon: Use the blog, Luke. Scott Johnson. It’s about information management. The bloggers have the potential to do something far more original than offer up packaged opinions on the news of the day; they can actually help organize the Web in ways tailored to your minute-by-minute needs. [ Tomalak’s Realm]Reason #174 that I love the…

Steven Vore responds to my comments on measuring contributions in the workplace.

Blog Appeal I heard last night from Howard Bashman, who heads the appellate group at Buchanan Ingersoll – and has a blog. Howard writes an appellate practitioner column, and observes that “[a]ppellate lawyers usually labor in obscurity, but the Internet no longer makes that as easy as it once was.” True enough – through Howard…

Create custom experimental XML feeds. Radio’s RSS writer is now user-extensible. The RSS writer in Radio is now officially user-extensible. “Before generating the RSS, we check user.radio.callbacks.writeRssFile,“ Dave writes today. Excellent. This will open the floodgates for all sorts of useful metadata experimentation. We’ll see Radio UserLand sites emitting RSS 1.0, and others extending RSS…

Trivia question: what acquisition is referred to below? Indeed, last year Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jonathan Joseph summed it up when he said: “It will go down as one of the best acquisitions in the history of the computer industry.”Post your guesses in the comments box. I’ll post the answer later today.

I’m not ashamed to admit I’m hooked on The Amazing Race. Have been since about the third episode of the first Amazing Race. And I was sad to see Oswald and Danny get eliminated tonight. For those who haven’t been watching religiously (shame on you!), this is yet another reality show. For whatever reason, this…

In response to my post from a week ago, Greg Harmeyer responds: While an interesting hypothesis, I’m not sure I buy the idea that people don’t collaborate because it reveals the weakest links.  By that logic, the strongest links would collaborate and a sort of Prisoner’s Dilemma would cause all to collaborate as much as…

Study: PVRs Not Necessarily the Death of TV Advertising: Ad Age, the leading advertising industry magazine, brings word of a recent marketing study that finds that PVRs aren’t as bad for television advertising as some (cough* Kellner*cough) would have you believe. [LawMeme: Legal Bricolage for a Technological Age]My own experience with TiVo mirrors many of…