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I swapped SMS messages with Ernie last night, and all was well (relatively speaking, of course). But according to the most recent post at his blog, a friend of his relays that things are getting a bit hairy: NEWSFLASH: Making a break for it. At this point he is looking to escape the city –…

Seth Stevenson, whose Ad Report Card is a consistently great discussion of good and bad advertising, just wrapped up a week in Amsterdam. And wrote about it. I want his expense account.

Geek alert: Joe, our excellent IT guy (seriously, he’s the best IT director I’ve ever worked with, and no, I’m not just saying that) recently set up our phone network using Asterisk, an open source PBX system. I’d remembered Joi setting up his Asterisk system a while back, and hadn’t really given it much more…

Perhaps this kind of thing explains why Dave Chappelle fled to South Africa back in May? (Link to news story spotted at Fark.com.) Wow.

I’ve written about Emily Lord before (here and here), and I’m quite excited that she’ll be performing in Chicago next Thursday (9/1) at Hideout. The downside — the show’s at 11pm, which means my lovely wife can’t accompany me (rumor has it pregnant women need lots of rest). Robin’s being quite gracious in encouraging me…

Cool: Danny Sullivan announced that they’re moving to FeedBurner over at Search Engine Watch, once he found out about our domain mapping service that lets publishers keep their feed URLs at their domain.

Check us out on Channel 7 tonight, during the 10pm newscast, when they do a segment on podcasting. Happy FeedBurner user Evan Brown will also be featured, so I’m told. I’ll see if I can get a copy of the video up… Update: The video is here.

Incredible: the District 203 teachers voted 92% tonight in favor of authorizing a strike if a contract agreement isn’t reached by Wednesday. We live in 204, so we won’t have to contemplate explaining to Ricky why he can’t start kindergarten on Thursday. The School District’s reaction is here, while the teachers’ union explains its side…

Wow, it’s been a crazy couple of weeks. I just realized how little I’ve posted, and I’ve even received a few e-mails from folks asking if everything’s alright. Yes — doing great, in fact. Just insanely busy, and will likely be for another couple weeks. It’s a combination of a lot happening at FeedBurner, plus…

Lots of comments recently about the Democratic Party of Illinois’ uninspiring web efforts to date. I’ve written about this, in the past (as have a bunch of others), but never has someone taken the time to spell out in great detail what should be done. Larry Handlin at ArchPundit took the time, and the result…