Author: Rick Klau

I recently finished The Bourne Legacy, a book I was incredibly reluctant to read. I first read The Bourne Identity in junior high school, and I have vivid memories of reading The Bourne Ultimatum while traveling in France as a high school student. Ludlum’s gift for complex plots, attention to detail, respect for his characters…

At Gnomedex, one of the more interesting conversations I participated in was with a large, brand-name publisher (who shall remain nameless). I was talking about how at FeedBurner, we take feedback very seriously. So, seriously, in fact, that many of us monitor Technorati pretty actively (and other similar services) to look for anyone talking about…

Beach Celebration and 2006 Aquathon Wow, this sounds like a great way to spend a day… Centennial Beach is turning 75 on Saturday. (tags: naperville)

I’m off this week to spend some long-overdue time with the family, but for those who are closer to the city and/or have time on Thursday, you won’t want to miss the first TechCocktail event in Chicago. Put on by FeedBurner’s own Eric Olson and periodic TechCrunch contributor FJ Gruber, the event will be a…

Ted Stevens on the Internet This is terrifying. As Wonkette dubbed him: “Unfrozen caveman Senator.” (tags: stevens alaska senate internet policy technology)

To end Gnomedex, Chris Pirillo just pitched three VCs (Brad Feld, Jeff Clavier and Rick Segal) on his new idea, TagJag. It’s a real, raw, unscripted discussion that shines a light on how to pitch an idea, how to answer questions from VCs, and how to evaluate what’s needed to execute on your vision. In…

I’m surprised how little of this year’s Gnomedex I’ve blogged. But I’m sitting in the Phil Torrone session on open source hardware, and it’s fascinating (I was similiarly amazed last year). He’s asking for ideas, and since I’m starting Boy Scouts with my son this fall, it seems like we need a merit badge system…

Something’s wrong with WP, trying to fix… OK, it’s more or less back up to speed. I’m still not clear what’s wrong — the right sidebar was killing the page load, causing the main content column to vanish. Not at all clear why; I’ll try and get it back to normal later.

Interesting. In response to a question about framing issues, John Edwards just made an important point: “there are people who spend their lives figuring out what language to use framing issues. That’s not me. My job is to figure out where the country needs to go, which problems we need to solve. … Language will…

Was talking with Josh Bancroft this morning about conference mashups, an idea whose time has come. Last year’s Portable Media Expo was held in the same building and at the same time as the Portable Sanitation Expo… wouldn’t it have been fun to combine the two conferences? I’m staying at the Westin in Seattle, and…