Author: Rick Klau

Interesting: Patrick Ruffini recently announced he has a 2008 Presidential Wire aggregator of sorts. It tracks a number of blogs and mainstream news sites, looking for mentions of likely presidential candidates in 2008. (I found it after seeing several clickthroughs from there to my post earlier today on partisanship. Apparently my mention of both Biden…

Not sure how I missed this nugget from ArchPundit a couple weeks back, but I wanted to respond to Vasyl’s comments. Vasyl said: Well, reporters read blogs. So do opposition researchers. In an era of online access to a lot of information about candidates, a stray comment by a candidate or political party on a…

I got an e-mail the other day from a local Democrat, asking for my help in spreading the word about a movement to ask Rep. Judy Biggert to remove herself from the House ethics committee. Rep. Biggert is my representative (IL-13), and she’s a Republican. She serves on the Ethics committee (the same one that…

I’m really enjoying Flickr — like del.icio.us, it took me a while to figure out exactly why I should care about it. Since I was never much of a bookmark user (no, I’m not sure why either), the whole notion of sharing bookmarks didn’t seem that useful to me. But after playing with it a…

Your post today asks when FeedBurner will address the concerns you voiced here last month. As noted here (on FeedBurner’s public forums), and here on my blog more than a year ago (and here on my blog just a few days ago), this has always been how we encourage users to operate. It takes just…

An old boss of mine, Randy Littleson, is part of the management team at manufacturing performance management company Kinaxis. They just relaunched the company (including a name change), their corporate website, and best of all, just started publishing new content in RSS. This is just the beginning of what they’ll do with RSS, but it’s…

A while back (at least a year, probably more), Marty sent me a quick e-mail. “Have you read Ender’s Game?” Ignoring the name of this blog for a moment (if you didn’t know, “tins” is an acronym for “There Is No Spoon”, a pivotal scene in the Matrix when Neo realizes that he’s in more…

Last night, Mike asked how to redirect his existing feed subscribers to his FeedBurner feed. While directions for the generic process are here, here’s a simplified version for Movable Type users: Login to Movable Type, find your RSS template, change the “output file” to another filename, like index-feedburner.xml Click on “templates”, then “create new index…

Over at the Huffington Post, Harry Shearer posts this gem: Tuesday night, Larry King interviewed Bush 41 and Barbara Sr. And you know, tough as you might want to be during an interview, you still gotta take the opportunity to see if the interviewee might want to speak at a charity dinner you’re emceeing. That’s…

If you’re interested in meeting a group of local bloggers tonight in Naperville, swing by the Red Door Tavern tonight after 8pm. Hope to see you there! Update: Mike reports on the excitement for the night. As always, was a lot of fun catching up with the group. Mike also mentions a planned family get-together…