Author: Rick Klau

As you’ve likely seen all over the web today, Barack Obama announced he’s formed an exploratory committee and will formally announce his decision about running for President on February 10 in Springfield. I am elated at this news. More later (I’m traveling for the next few days).

A few weeks ago I asked for pointers to help get up to speed on digital photography. Now that I have a “real” camera (with each day, I find yet another incredible feature of my D50; if you’re in the market for a digital SLR, you could do much, much worse), I’m really eager to…

Yesterday’s post debunking the claims of rampant pornography on the Wii got picked up in today’s New York Times blog The Lede (courtesy of a follow-up post at Techdirt – thanks, Mike!). At least I’m a “techspert”!

A long-overdue site update is now more or less in place. While I was originally pretty happy with the look and feel of the prior design, it started misbehaving in a couple of browsers, and I’d grown tired of having to constantly tweak stuff to keep it working. I found a new theme I quite…

Wow, I guess it’s come to this: seen over at TechDirt was the alarmist report at WFAA-TV in Dallas that the Wii console can be a gateway for porn. Here’s the logic: the Wii has the ability to connect to a home network through its wireless Internet connectivity. Furthermore, the Wii has a web browser…

I am so disappointed I can’t make it to this event tonight in Naperville; it would be a blast to listen to both talk about how blogs can influence the debate. Eric – enjoy your visit to our fair city!

I mentioned this last week, and we’ve now made it official: as of today, anyone using FeedBurner can add site tracking to their website. Go to the post to find the cool little bookmarklet I hacked together that gives you instant access to your page stats from any page on your blog. I’m particularly excited…

No thanks to the many technical tools I used to try and find a Wii, we happened to get one last week when Robin got a call from a neighbor who fortuitously bought one from a Toys R Us employee with loose lips. (The neighbor overheard the clerk offer to sell one to a friend;…

A Nikon D50 was waiting under the tree for me this Christmas, and I’m in love. We’ve been a little stir-crazy the last few days (thanks to pneumonia, asthma attacks and various other kid-related nuttiness), so we bundled everyone in the car and headed north to the Chicago Botanic Garden. If you’re in the Chicago…

Steve pointed to a great writeup by Peter Kim about how much he likes Blogbeat’s functionality. Pete got to see the beta of our integration of Blogbeat into FeedBurner; if you’re interested, shoot me a note and I’ll put you on the list to get early access.