Author: Rick Klau

RibFest is a big deal in Naperville, we regularly get 100,000+ people over 4 days to come, gorge themselves on ribs, and enjoy the music. This year’s assortment of acts — David Lee Roth, Loretta Lynn and Kenny Wayne Sheppard on the “main” stage, with Blue Oyster Cult (”Cowbell! More cowbell!“), Adrian Belew, and Urge…

Earlier today we announced that we’re implementing support for iTunes “really soon”; the specs behind Apple’s RSS extension are here. Dave notes that it leaves a bit to be desired, and Sam suggests that there’s some inconsistencies between the spec and the examples, which will make it hard to validate. It’s exciting to see the…

I really like this post from Matt Homann. Something tells me it would be wise to start hanging out at a Starbucks near Matt’s office… Rosa Say passes on a great way to spend your marketing dollars: This morning Kerwin and I walked into a Prescott Starbucks and both ordered their strong-brew coffee of the…

My three year-old crawled into bed this morning at 5:30, and for no particular reason, put his hand against mine. He paused, then said wistfully, “Still small.” Tonight, eating out for dinner, our five year-old had finished his chocolate milk. Robin had a chocolate shake (remember, she’s eating for two) and while Ricky wasn’t looking,…

That’s right, we’ve moved. Steve snaps the front of the new building: As of this morning, we’re at 549 West Randolph, between Canal and Clinton. At the very least, slightly less spartan.

It’s official, iTunes 4.9 is out and available for download. As widely discussed, it includes podcasting support — it works very easily, though it’s obvious that podcasters will want easier ways to categorize their podcasts. Apple’s podcast specifications are here, which includes specifics on Apple’s RSS extension for adding meta data about your podcast. Its…

Someone at Gnomedex (sorry, can’t remember who) asked about pinging FeedBurner, so I dug up the answer. You can automatically ping FeedBurner (details are here) if your weblog application supports it; otherwise you can manually ping us using the “resync” feature in your account.

This is funny, I saw the original post pointing out the Chicago police website, then made the same connection that Steven Levitt did: In my last post, I talked about how Chicago police have begun posting pictures on the internet of johns caught soliciting prostitutes. Based on the numbers given in a Chicago Tribune article,…

This is pretty cool… Adam Curry is doing his concluding keynote as his 200th “Daily Source Code” live. Adam’s being very gracious, talking about a lot of the sources of inspiration that got podcasting to where it is today. Is it news that Apple’s creating a namespace for podcasts? (Update: Not really.) Great discussion of…

Buzz, Denise, and Jason are leading the discussion on legal issues relating to blogging and technology. I had lunch with Denise, who mentioned that Buzz was reinstalling Windows prior to the presentation (a bizarre pre-presentation ritual?), but it looks like the machine got its issues straightened out, as they’re leading the presentation using MindManager. Funny…