Author: Rick Klau

Since most bloggers often use their blogs to complain when things don’t work, I thought it only fair to do the opposite. I’ve been a long-time user of FreeConference, a free phone conference service that lets you schedule group phone calls. Until today, I’d never had an issue using the service. It just worked. This…

Micro Persuasion: We’re Out of Pockets Reminds me of the old Seinfeld joke: why are dogs so poor? No pockets. They see nickels, dimes, quarters… but can’t put them anywhere. (Yes, it’s a bad joke.) (tags: pda convergence devices) DLO | HomeDock Deluxe This goes to the top of the iPod accessory wishlist… (tags: ipod…

40-year-old surgeon | Chicago Tribune Took the boys to their first Cubs game yesterday, and we watched Maddux pitch a masterful game. Very cool to be there for an historic day! (tags: Cubs family) Starved Rock struggles | Chicago Tribune I’ve written a couple times about our trips to Starved Rock – it’s a real…

Chicago City Council prohibits restaurants from selling foie gras | Chicago Tribune This is mostly for my family, who’ll recognize the inside joke here. Is it pate? Non! It’s foie gras. Not in Chicago, it looks like. (tags: foie gras pate chicago) Naperville Sun: Heroic in the face of tragedy Unbelievable story about a 1946…

I just finished participating in a panel discussion with Marty Donner (GM at ReturnPath) and Neil Rosen (CEO at eWayDirect) at the DirectMedia client co-op. We had a pretty full room — and not a single person there subscribed to a podcast. Only a half dozen knew what feeds were. It was obvious there was…

CNN.com – The movie title that launched a phenomenon Snakes on a Plane, baby. (tags: snakes soap jackson) Feld Thoughts: Are you Happy? Nice. Harvard students shift from wanting to be rich to wanting to be happy. (tags: Harvard happiness) Hill | Holliday – Blog Archive – Slate grades Dunkin’ campaign an ‘A’ D&D has…

In the comments over at the OpenLine blog, Aurora Alderman Stephanie Kifowit chimes in with a comment to clarify what’s going on, and what the options are. I had a chance to meet Stephanie back when Richard Irvin was running for Aurora mayor (she was a supporter of Richard’s), and found her to be a…

We took the wraps off of our self-serve interface for advertisers. Up until now, advertisers who wanted to advertise in feeds had to work with us directly, and it required some manual hand-holding. No more. If you want to advertise in any of our channels, you can now do so by going through a wizard…

Revealed on his message boards, the question was “does Stephen have a writing schedule?” The answer: “He writes at his home office almost every morning for about 4 – 4-1/2 days.” So now we know.

<img align=”right” alt=”Cell: A Novel” src=”http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743292332.01.SCTHUMBZZZ.jpg” />Just finished reading Cell by Stephen King. Definitely not my favorite of his; about 18 months ago I read through the entire Dark Tower series, and found it a masterful collection of characters, a thoroughly engrossing weaving of multiple story lines into one long arc, and an all-around enjoyable…