Author: Rick Klau

Hard to believe, but the day we’ve all been waiting for is upon us. It was exactly one year ago today that screenwriter Josh Friedman graced us with what will no doubt go down in history as the day that changed cinema. On that day, the brilliance of a movie title so simple, so powerful,…

Pure, unaldulterated ego: That’s me: the #3 Rick on Google, more popular than Rick Springfield and Rick Santorum (I’m not really sure that’s worth bragging about, but whatever). Rick Dees and Rick Steves still have me beat, but Rick James is all the way down at #10. (I’ll enjoy it while it lasts; I was…

A couple weeks ago, I gave a keynote presentation to the ELCA Communicators Conference. ELCA is the largest association of Lutheran churches in the US, and the conference is a bi-annual meeting that gathers communicators from across the church to learn about how to better communicate to their members, employees, etc. I was particularly excited…

They not only hate freedom Originally uploaded by 5500.I look at this picture, and I shake my head at the terrible marketing instincts on the part of the person who drafted this note. Instead of focusing on the people who can’t buy your products, what of all the passengers who had to ditch their lotions,…

Over the weekend I caught up on the mail which had piled up during the past few weeks, and saw that my alumni magazine did a big story on blogs. I was pleased to see that their “best of the best” they put Ernie on the list. If there was ever any doubt Ernie belonged…

I was on a redeye Wednesday night, which means that yesterday’s threat change by the TSA happened while I was in the air. The last time our nation’s air travel was so significantly affected was 9/11/01, when I was also in the air. It’s enough to make you a bit edgy. Like my experience on…

Speaking of Lafayette, how cool is it that WJRH (the campus radio station, where I was a DJ for 3 years) is podcasting? And using FeedBurner? I love my job.

Very cool – my alma mater, Lafayette College, made TechCrunch today in a post about video start-up Viddler. I think one of the founders is a Lehigh grad (boo!), and the sample screen shot at TechCrunch is focused on the Lafayette/Lehigh rivalry, which is the most-played rivalry in college football. Go Leopards!

I’m at SES in San Jose today, speaking on Blog and Feed SEO. This is a similar presentation I gave back in February with the same speakers… what was most interesting for me as I put the presentation together was noting how much had changed in just a few months. We’re introducing some new features…

Vacation ended a week ago and it already feels like a year ago. Funny how that works. No doubt the most exciting (in a you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me way) part of the vacation was a 4am call from ADT telling us our house was on fire. Yep, those are great calls to get. In what can only be…