Author: Rick Klau

Michael Cousineau asks me why I wrote about Christine’s Q4 numbers. Mostly to provoke a discussion, which, thanks to Rich Miller and Michael picking up on my comments, it has. (For better or for worse.) It is certainly not out of animosity towards Christine (quite the contrary, I personally like her and did work on…

Some of the numbers are in for the 6th Congressional Democrats. And while I’ve been a supporter of Christine’s in the past, I have to say these numbers don’t look good: Raised: $68k Spent: $77k Cash on hand: $39k Debts owed: $39k Once you subtract debts from cash on hand, the Cegelis campaign has $184.54.…

Very cool. Business 2.0 rounded up its top 10 business ideas of the year, and puts RSS on the list as the “smartest technology”, “letting RSS do for online media what the Web did for the Internet.” (Click for full-size screencap.)

Back at Gnomedex, Steve Rubel and his client (Weatherbug) gave a presentation about using the blogosphere to counter a negative impression of their company. It was a decent talk, and I was impressed that they handed out registered copies of the “plus” version of WeatherBug. As I wrote then: Jeff’s got CDs of WeatherBug Plus…

2006 is the year of reconnecting for me so far. First, I heard from Femke, one of my close friends from the year I spent living in Dijon, Frace (1991-1992) — Femke’s from Maastricht and we hadn’t talked since 1996. She looked me up in Skype’s directory, and a couple weeks ago, I got an…

Forgive the multiple company posts, but our latest announcement is one of those deceptively simple things that takes a while to sink in. And I’m hoping that by documenting why I’m so excited about it that you might play around with it and use it (if you’re not already). Last month, we announced FeedFlare. It…

While listening to or watching my iPod lately, I’ve noticed that if my Treo gets too close to the iPod, it has the ability to change the volume. This isn’t a random occurrence, I can reproduce it frequently. It appears to be when the Treo is exchanging data — like a send/receive in e-mail —…

Inevitable, I suppose. There’s now a west coast answer to the Samberg/Parnell Chronicles of Narnia rap from a couple weeks ago. Quite funny, actually.

You may have seen the AT&T billboards claiming “blogging delivered” for AT&T (er, sorry – that’s at&t). I love that this blogger called them out, and pointed out that the word “blog” is nowhere to be found on the at&t site. One billion dollars. On marketing. Maybe the website was an extra hundred mil, and…

Very excited to welcome USA Today to the growing list of publishers using FeedBurner to manage their feeds. As the press release makes clear, part of the attraction for the team at USA Today is our newly-announced “Feed Foundry”. From the announcement: FeedFoundry provides mass feed importing, management and analysis. The service was built for…