Author: Rick Klau

  • Disenchanted’s Referral Tracking Creates a Two-Way Web

    Visit Disinchanted’s site to see how this works: every time someone links to them, they create reciprocal links back to those sites, sometimes including editorial comments about the sites you’ll be visiting. It’s a little tricky to explain, but once you see it, it should make sense. this adds tremendous context to their site (by…

  • Prof. Volokh to Debate Judge Kozinski on the Bono Copyright Extension

    COPYRIGHT FOREVER: I’m off to Warner Brothers to debate my former boss, the inimitable Judge Alex Kozinski, about the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act — the Supreme Court will be considering its constitutionality soon in Eldred v. Ashcroft. I’m not completely sure that the law ought to be struck down, but that’s the position…

  • Adam Curry Sheds Light on Fortuyn Assassination

    Thanks to Dave, Tim Jarret and InstaPundit for the flow. I understand that US media outlets are lumping Pim Fortuyn with Le Pen in the same scentence even. They are misinformed and have done inadequate research. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]I’ll admit I didn’t know anything about Pim Fortuyn before yesterday. And initial reports I…

  • Download the Internet

    To download the Internet CLICK HERE. [Sam Ruby]The solution to our knowledge management challenges [McGee’s Musings]Classic.

  • Microsoft Buys Navision for $1.3 billion

    It’s official. Microsoft announced early Wednesday that it has agreed to purchase mid-range accounting software company Navision. The purchase was structured as a stock and cash purchase and is valued at approximately $1.3 billion. [Electronic Accountant]Combine this with their announced development of Microsoft CRM, and things get interesting. They now own Great Plains (higher-end accounting,…

  • The Matrix Reloaded

    The Matrix Reloads “The Wachowski brothers are currently in residence at the Fox studios in Sydney, Australia, simultaneously shooting Matrix Reloaded (part two) and Matrix Revolutions (part three). The movies won’t come out until 2003 (Reloaded in May, Revolutions in either August or November), but the hype has already begun. This month a trailer for…

  • Prairie Blogs Gathers Steam

    it looks like jenny , jim mcgee and rick klau are contemplating getting together chicago-area bloggers. it looks like jenny , jim mcgee and rick klau are contemplating getting together chicago-area bloggers. although i just moved from the chicago-area to grand rapids, michigan, i still technically work in chicago [ well, o.k. motorola is technically…

  • More changes: removed the calendar

    More changes: removed the calendar (I received a lot of feedback that many visitors who aren’t weblog afficianados didn’t realize it was an archive of past posts) and replaced with a Radio macro that generates a list of the last 10 posts to the site. Since people often find the site from a search engine…

  • New home page layout

    Nothing earth-shattering, but I’m starting to play with the presentation of the site a bit. Your comments are welcome. Changed so far: added navigation bar at top, removed Google “related sites” box, changed “currently subscribed to:” list of weblogs to an edited list of weblogs that I think are most relevant to people who’ll be…

  • The NY Times Misses the Point

    At Large in the Blogosphere. Blogs — online news commentaries written, usually, by ordinary citizens — are the antidote to the blow-dried anchor and the unsigned editorial. By Judith Shulevitz. [New York Times: Technology]I can’t help but think that this article in tomorrow’s Times misses the point entirely. I am both a blogger and a…