Author: Rick Klau

After seeing Danny’s post about getting to 50,000 subscribers, I just couldn’t resist this version of his big feed icon: (With apologies to National Lampoon.)

Had a great conversation with Barry Parr today, and one of the observations I shared was how much fun I’m having with Google Reader’s “share” function. For those that don’t know, Google Reader has a feature that lets you “share” any item in the reader. (See image to the right.) I take the feed that…

Well, it was bound to happen. My recent attempts at “fixing” things on my blog – rescuing orphaned URLs, eliminating SEO-unfriendly things like underscores in posts titles, etc. – resulted in a loss of PageRank. I was a 7, now I’m a 5. Do you think they’ll still let me speak at SES?

Last week I wrote about problems leaving comments on blogs using Akismet to protect against spam. Thanks to some assistance from Matt Mullenweg, whatever gremlins I was offending are now happily approving my comments. Which makes me happy. Thanks, Matt!

Fred Wilson wrote last week about a browser plugin I’d never heard of, FoxyTunes. It inserts a browser control in the footer of your browser: What’s perhaps most incredible about it is what happens when you click on the artist/track in the browser control. It takes you to a page devoted to that artist, with…

Over on the company blog, Brent has a post announcing our latest release, AdClimate. The idea is pretty simple: advertisers who are particularly worried about their ad running alongside specific types of content can leverage this new feature to ensure that the ad doesn’t run. While some will focus on the inevitable cases of situations…

Today’s Chicago Tribune has a remarkable article about the exoneration of Jerry Miller. Miller, an Army veteran who’d never been convicted of a crime, was identified in a police line-up by two eye-witnesses, and ended up serving 25 years in prison before being cleared by DNA collected at the scene of the crime. The Innocence…

Listening to this piece on NPR yesterday, I had one reaction to Intuit’s spokesperson’s claims that Intuit’s problem of handling tax filings on the evening of 4/17 was the fault, in the words of Harry Pforzheimer, of “late” filers and “procrastinators”. Hey, Intuit: here’s a few other words I’d use: “customers” and “on time”. As…

Wow. It’s like Tony Blair is channeling Jeff Jarvis. [youtube tF_8MTxir-o] (hat tip Zack Exley)

It’s pretty cool to see a guy I’ve known for over a decade rise to the top of his game. Josh Marshall and I were competitors in the web design for lawyers business (he was a founder at College Hill Internet, and I was at Inherent.com). We got to know each other, mostly because we…