Author: Rick Klau

Digital Rights: Would you like some? If so, then make sure you read Dan Gillmor’s article.  And after you read it, if you are inclined, then take some action.  Waiting for Congress to figure out how how the digital world is supposed to work is like letting Colonel Sanders babysit your chickens….[Ernie the Attorney]

I ran across this article in Inc Magazine about two months ago. I meant to link to it back then, and am just now remembering. The best part of the story behind the rise of Cranium (if you haven’t played the board game, you don’t know what you’re missing) is the backgrounds of the co-founders:…

Following up on yesterday’s link to Mike Deem’s comments about rolling bowling balls down mountains, I thought this post from Mike Chandler provides some good fodder for discussion. Mike took a machine, loaded it up first with Windows 2000. He was hacked within a few hours. He reformatted the machine, loaded it up with Red Hat…

Doc Searls includes a number of good links to the furor over Fritz Hollings‘ latest bill, the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act. At issue is neither the promotion of broadband access nor the conversion of TV to HDTV. The issue is really whether the entertainment industry can flex enough muscle to regulate the…

So he works for Microsoft, but you can’t really argue with this logic: If you ask me, getting a kick out of being successful with a virus on Windows is sort of like claiming fame for rolling a bowling ball down a mountain. It isn’t very hard to get the bowling ball to the top,…

How do they pick the cities they show on the inflight map? Right now, we’re somewhere high above Canada (36,000 feet, to be exact) in between Goose Bay and Chicoutimi. Absent from the map? Montréal, Toronto and Québec City. Now they’ve gone to the large map – so you can see western Europe and the…

London Taxi Cabs are without a doubt the best in the world. Now if there just weren’t so much traffic, getting around town would be convenient and quick. Any time four adults (including two of us well over 6’) can fit comfortably into a vehicle with a driver, you have to be impressed. Why can’t…

Received an e-mail from John Hiler today, the guy who wrote the Google bomb articles from a couple weeks ago. Turns out he’s launching a new e-zine about weblogs titled “Microcontent News“. The article announcng the new zine is here, and here’s a snippet from the article that explains why Hiler is so enthusiastic: If…

One of the things that was really starting to make business travel bearable last year was high speed Internet access in every hotel room I stayed in. I’m a Hilton bigot (as a HHonors Diamond member, they upgrade me to embarassing rooms when I check in; how can you turn down a 1900 square foot…

Originally published: March 19, 2002Edited: April 16, 2002by Rick Klau Six years ago, I was in the main conference room of a Top 100 law firm. I was trying to convince the managing partner of this 400 lawyer firm that the firm needed an intranet. “Strip away the technology, the bells and whistles,” I said.…