Author: Rick Klau

I’m playing with Dave Winer’s OPML editor over here. That space will be a scratch pad to experiment a bit, I’ll write up my observations here once I’ve figured it all out. Congrats to Dave on hitting this milestone.

Kos points out the incredible commentary from a Deutsche Bank analyst in a recent New York Times article re: Costco and its treatment of its employees: Wow. How do these Wall Street analysts sleep at night? Costco’s average pay, for example, is $17 an hour, 42 percent higher than its fiercest rival, Sam’s Club. And…

Two years ago, I pointed to a Britt Blaser post (which linked to Roland, who was linking to the source, Jason Kottke, whew!) about a donut vendor in NYC who put his customers on the honor system, and in the process doubled his customers per minute (as compared to other, similar donut vendors). Having recently…

Wondering whether anyone out there has experience using NextAlarm? They can redirect your ADT or Brink’s alarm hardware to their service center, and provide Internet-based monitoring of your alarm. They’ll e-mail alerts, provide online account access (two things that ADT doesn’t do) and they’re far less expensive than ADT. I’m pretty impressed so far in…

Wow, congratulations is right. Mike points out that our local friends are hitting the big time: Congratulations are in order to Naperville podcasting superstars, Kris (“with a K”) and Betsy Smith of Croncast. They were mentioned in the New York Times today as one of the best podcasts to listen to and definitely deserve the…

Zorn takes issue with this the Dave Matthews Band flushing its past down the, well, read on… “Chicago Forgives Dave Matthews -– Dave Matthews Band Fans and Survivors of Last Year’s Incident Celebrate the Return of the band to Chicago” is slated for Friday morning, 7-10 a.m., at the Wendella dock on the Chicago River…

For the first time in months, we had a serious storm yesterday. From the looks of it, today’s about to make yesterday look dry. Courtesy of WeatherBug (which I got at Gnomedex and I love), check this out: In our new office, we have a wall of windows facing the Chicago skyline (you can see…

Friend of mine recently started working for Senator Barack Obama as the director of technology — it’s a great fit, and I can’t wait to see what he comes up with. Of course, I already found one thing that has his fingerprints all over it. Go to the new Barack Obama website (glad to see…

Just hacked my Movable Type template for my RSS feed, and changed things over at FeedBurner to boot. What I did: turned off AdSense for Feeds. I originally tried it out to make sure I understood what the process was for our users (we make implementing AdSense for Feeds pretty easy), but that’s done and…

This cracked me up: The folks across the street emailed me because they discovered my iTunes collection via wireless. [Paul Boutin]   On a related tangent, I just secured my wifi network. I noticed that one of my neighbors was piggy-backed on the connection pretty much constantly — and while I didn’t mind the occasional…