Author: Rick Klau

No, not really. Chris is making a point.

You’ve been warned, most of the next 2 days of posts will be Gnomedex-specific. If you’re at the conference and want a FeedBurner sticker (and, honestly, who doesn’t?!), find me and I’ll hook you up.

I’m en route to Seattle for Gnomedex. Looking forward to seeing lots of friends, and connecting with others who will be at Chris’s shindig. I’m staying at the Westin, drop me an email if you’re in town and let’s catch up.

Recently, I was asked to present at an annual meeting of an international association of law firms. They want me to talk about weblogs, podcasting and the like. (I have a hunch I’ll find something to say on the subject.) The meeting is in mid-September in Prague, and I’ve never been. When I lived in…

Lots of coverage last week about AOL’s beta of the new Netscape.com, headed up by Jason Calacanis. I’m pretty impressed. For those that don’t know what this is, it’s an attempt to let a community of users vote on which stories they think are most interesting. Services like del.icio.us, Digg, and many others are approaching…

WSJ.com – Talking Tech WSJ interviews web design guru Jakob Nielsen about RSS. Can’t say I entirely follow the newsletter analogy – feeds are more flexible than just one mechanism for delivering info – but his comments about branding (“news feeds” makes more sense than “RSS”) were spot on. (tags: alertbox rss wsj)

JWT Puts a Roadblock on Huffington Post – New York Times Congrats to my friends at HuffPo – this is a neat deal and a good example of other deals I’m seeing at some of the niche publications. Fun to see agencies get creative, and see publishers drive significant revenue… (tags: advertising blogs marketing viral)…

Last night was a blast — Paul Curreri was in town and played for nearly two hours at our house. We had a nice crowd, and I think it’s safe to say Paul has a lot of new fans now. Thanks to everyone who came! Evan has already put a couple pictures up on Flickr.…

The Trademark Blog: Look For MARTY SCHWIMMER Brand Legal Services If you’re ever in the market for trademark services, the Marty Schwimmer™ is the way to go… (tags: schwimmer trademark humor) Everybody’s stalking: Accidental entrepreneur David Weekly sets a new record for startup failure – Valleywag “if one in 12 startups fails and i can…

I’m glad I was planning on working from home today. Yesterday’s snafu involving a white acidic powder that dropped on more than 26 miles of track proved quite difficult to clean up, and due to union protections against crews working too many hours in a row, this morning’s routes were all affected (some by a…