Author: Rick Klau

Or, more precisely, we’re watching Amanda Congdon (host of Rocketboom) watch us watch Rocketboom. Marshall McLuhan, white courtesy phone…

Mike Davidson, CEO of Newsvine, suggested that he wants to keep his RSS feeds pure — no ads, no content other than headlines — so that the feed is just an update mechanism to drive content back to his site. That’s the third time today someone’s suggested that the publisher can decide the consumption dynamics…

Richard Edelman is on the stage, talking about PR in the new media landscape. I’ve been listening (and not taking notes) for most of the discussion, but found the last discussion point interesting: when asked about the Wal-Mart brouhaha a couple months ago, Richard suggested that the crux of the problem was that one of…

Jeff Jarvis is giving an un-keynote where he’s leading a group-wide discussion to kick off Syndicate. The audience “voted” by indicating that they want to talk about “Money and syndication” first (shocker! people want to make money on their content!). Some questions: First questioner asked about the repurposing of his feeds, and suggested that he…

I’ve been a LinkedIn user since its early beta days, and while I was initially intrigued by it (at the time, I was working for a CRM company and was mostly looking for competitive info) it took a couple years for LinkedIn to be a useful tool for me: ironically, after leaving said CRM company,…

Less than two hours after my post on Tuesday about my laptop dying, I had a phone call from David Churbuck, who’s the global head of web marketing for Lenovo. I’m always amazed when I hear that people read my blog — I suppose I shouldn’t be, given the business I’m in — and when…

I haven’t written about this before, but judging by the number of people who react with “wow! never thought of that.” I figured it was worth noting. Despite my earlier admiration for the Mirra, it stopped working on my laptop a couple months ago. I finally stopped trying to get it to work, and let…

My last ThinkPad gave up the ghost at about 13 months old. And here I am, another ThinkPad, another “unmountable boot volume” blue screen of death. Almost 13 months to the day.Sigh. Even I can see the irony in the fact that my blog is the #1 search for thinkpad unmountable boot volume. 🙂

What Chicago taught Conan | Chicago Tribune Who cares about Conan, this article reveals further proof that Naperville rocks: Bob Odenkirk is a Naperville native. Sweet. (tags: naperville bob odenkirk comedy)

Very interesting. Last year, Naperville’s announcement that it would require fingerprint scans in order to get Internet access landed our fair city on the front pages of Slashdot, not to mention a host of newspapers around the country. Now, a year later, it appears that the plan’s dead. The library’s saying it’s a software compatibility…