Author: Rick Klau

One of the fun things we did in the Dean campaign was introduce transparency in fundraising; as people saw what the goal was (and how close we were to the goal), it had a wonderful effect in encouraging further contributions. I had no idea that there was an open source Drupal plugin written by my…

Final results: 4766 to 2065.

This is classic. We are currently debating what rules govern the agenda, and the candidates don’t even know whether they can speak before the vote. More in the comments.

MySpace for the Office Wow. Kleiner Perkins led a $17m round for Visible Path, who’s pitching corporate social networking. I recall making a similar pitch about two and a half years ago… (tags: social networks visible path vc) TinyScreenfuls.com » Blog Archive » How to delight your users (or: FeedBurner support rocks!) Thanks for the…

Tonight ought to be entertaining, it’s the county convention and it’s a contested race for county chair. As I mentioned last week, I’m backing Gayl Ferraro in her reelection effort. Her opponent, Doug Cole, doesn’t strike me as the guy we need in charge of the county party: his well-publicized antagonism of the Duckworth campaign,…

Barron’s: TiVo ripe for buyout? TiVo is about to get bought? This seems to crop up every few months… and so far, they’ve done just fine on their own. I don’t see Google being a good match – but I think Apple would be darn near perfect. More on that later. (tags: TiVo Apple acquisition)…

Figured out last night that today is officially my one year anniversary at FeedBurner. Hard to believe it’s just been a year — we’ve grown from a handful of employees (I was # 6 or 7) to 25 (with a little room left — see our jobs page for more!). We managed around 20,000 feeds…

This is annoying. After posting on Sunday about the JotSpot family site, I signed up to give it a test drive. I started playing with the family tree a bit, adding in a few generations and linking people up. The UI was pretty straightforward, adding people was easy, and all was good. Then this: UnknownError…

/Message: Calling All Web 2.0 Apps: Clothe Stowe For 2006 Come on, Stowe: how much to rent the beret? 😉 (tags: web20 marketing) ‘He would do it again’ Tough story about a heroic grandfather who died trying to save his grandchildren. (tags: Naperville family) Trees May Be Root of Some Evil Great headline.

Wow. Watching the live video stream now from the courthouse, Governor Ryan is going to go to jail.