Author: Rick Klau

Online News Squared: LA Times Blogger Suspended in Multiple Personality Flap Reporter (Pulitzer prize winner, no less) suspended after it’s revealed that he posted comments under fake names at the LA Times site and his own blog. Bizarre. (tags: identity LATimes ethics) VC Confidential: Net Ads Pass Magazine Ads Wow… online’s about to surpass magazine…

The site survey link is now live, so any of you who regularly read this site, feel free to take a couple minutes and anonymously tell me all about yourself by clicking that link below. 😉 John Zeratsky shared some details about how I did this. I’m pretty excited by this, as it’s a terrific…

Hi there! If you’re reading this in a feed reader (Bloglines, NewsGator, FeedDemon, NetNewsWire — FeedBurner tells me that is 70% of you), I’d really appreciate it if you take a few minutes and click on the ‘Take my survey’ link. Let me know if the overall experience is OK. (Should take you about 5…

Deborah McMurray Associates – VW TV Ads Interesting – VW’s new ads show head-on crashes to show how safe they are… (tags: VW advertising tv) StillFree.com Very well-done hoax showing someone spraypainting Air Force One “still free”. Photoshop? Digital editing? Nope. A rented 747 and a paint job to match Air Force One. Not cheap!…

Not his best performance by far. I think the transcript will read well, but his delivery was off – wasn’t clear whether he had a bad satellite connection, or what. Style aside, the substance was good – he was there primarily to promote his new book, The Plan. It will be interesting to see if…

A Venture Forth » Blog Archive » The Art of Branding (And, Why Startups Often Have a Strategic Edge) “Compare Feedburner vs. AT&T…” I love it. (tags: feedburner att startup strategy) Mumps outbreak likely to spread, CDC chief says | Chicago Tribune “We expect more cases—definitely,” said Gerberding, noting the virus could spread to other…

By the way, I mentioned that I bought the Tribeca recently in my last post. In spite of some of the reviews, I love how it looks, and have been very happy with it so far. My only complaint? The mileage is not-so-great… which isn’t surprising, given that it’s an SUV. After all, coming from…

About a month ago, I traded in my Jetta for a Subaru B9 Tribeca. There was a good promotion going on at the time, which meant that the car is financed through Chase as opposed to the bank I ordinarily deal with for car loans. Two weeks ago I received the paperwork to set up…

Chicago Cubs : News : Garage sale on Saturday Own a piece of Wrigley this Saturday… (tags: Cubs Wrigley) OnlyOnce: Counter Cliche: I Know When I See One, Too Matt Blumberg at ReturnPath gives a great list of traits that make a great VC. (tags: entrepreneurship VC business strategy) BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Proposal…

Will’s post about a bad TV from December, 2004, now has 169 comments. All of them from disgruntled Phillips TV owners. Lately the comments are coming in 1-2 per day.