Author: Rick Klau

Ross announced recently that Socialtext closed a B round of funding. In classic Ross fashion, he did the counter-intuitive (and brilliant, IMO) thing and chose not to trumpet the details, instead choosing to let bloggers hunt them down. A Socialtext starter package awaits the first person to connect all the dots: happy hunting! In related…

Man, this news about ReedSmith’s work with DolphinSearch (where, oh where, did spaces in company names go?) is just so exciting on so many levels: Byte and Switch has a story this morning on ComplianSeek with more about the genesis and particulars of the technology (Dolphins Aid Compliance): “DolphinSearch is the brainchild of a Berkeley…

Very cool development in the DuPage County blog world: the Daily Herald, in conjunction with Northwestern University, has launched a community blog site called Beep. Local bloggers can drop a line to beep@dailyherald.com to add their blog to the local blog list here. Favorite new local blog so far? Rays of Light, where Ray Trygstad…

A while back I read Getting Things Done by David Allen, and was very impressed with the concepts. Nothing earth-shattering, but a good combination of discipline and common sense that helped you manage your day-to-day to-dos. Like many who’ve read it, I found a few keys in the system (especially the Brother P-Touch + manila…

… A new Emily Lord CD, “Brand New Day”. Emily just recently chaired Mamapalooza in San Francisco, and she’ll be in New York in a few weeks at the NY Mamapalooza event. Emily graduated from Notre Dame with my brother, then served active duty in the military for a number of years before committing to…

Arianna Huffington’s new group blog launched today. Looks like it’s worth subscribing (feed options here.)

My favorite movie reviewer since 1993 (when I read his reviews on rec.arts.movie-reviews), James Berardinelli, really liked Revenge of the Sith. I got almost nothing out of the last two — it’d be fun to have this one be better. Eleven days and counting…

Remember that weather I wrote about back in March? For whatever reason, the Technorati watch list I have running on the word “Naperville” just turned up a great picture of the storm as it rolled into town.

I gave the new Google Web Accelerator a try the other day without really stopping to think about it. Of my many complaints about computing, slow loading web pages is not at the top of the list. In 1996? Sure, you bet. That 56kbps dial-up connection to Earthlink seemed fast for about an hour, then…

Thanks to peacenik (the nickname at del.icio.us for this person), we have our first “community” links in the sidebar back at the website. What are community links? Instead of managing a blogroll, I have two different lists of links on my homepage — one is managed by Technorati and includes the last 25 sites who’ve…