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Today’s Naperville Sun has a story about a local group’s efforts to pass a law prohibiting smoking in Naperville restaurants and bars. (Naperville now has the option thanks to a recent bill signed into law by Governor Blagojevich, allowing cities to impose their own smoking limits/bans.) I think this is a great idea; living in…

Thanks to our pending arrival, I had to pass on a speaking opportunity in Washington, DC on November 2. The DC chapter of the ALA is hosting a session on blogs as marketing vehicles for law firms, and want to know if there’s someone in the DC area who can speak on the topic. If…

Henry points to Ebert’s review of Deuce Bigelow 2… One of the best Ebert Reviews in some time: But Schneider is correct, and Patrick Goldstein has not yet won a Pulitzer Prize. Therefore, Goldstein is not qualified to complain that Columbia financed “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo” while passing on the opportunity to participate in “Million…

While in DC last week, I took the kids to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles Airport. It’s part of the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, created in part to display thousands of items that they just can’t fit into the museum on the Mall in Washington. As a kid, I wanted to be…

Sports Illustrated has a “25 Most Intriguing Characters” feature up at their website. Problem with #25: Flutie’s receiver was Gerard Phelan, not Gerald Phelan. Come on S.I., that’s a gimmie.

Steve Rubel catches a good case of a large company doing the unthinkable: listening. Want to keep a customer for life? Listen and respond to them. That’s exactly what Unilever did. Apparently the consumer product giant was actively listening to the blogosphere and they tuned into one voice, Dan Entin. Dan had been lamenting about…

Working for a company that many have described as a “Web 2.0” company, I absolutely love this characterization of what Web 2.0 means… I somehow missed this post from IBM developer James Snell written in May.  He describes Web 2.0 as “chmod 777 web“.  He adds some perspective on what Web 2.0 means to him:…

Whoa, nelly. Makes you want to get into the movie business, making movies nobody ever sees: Via Phosita: Story on the $17.5 million clearance of rights of Dukes of Hazzard. [The Trademark Blog]

Haven’t vanished… had a great time ‘down the shore’ in New Jersey, then turned right around and hit the road. Will be back in Illinois this weekend, and life will return to some semblance of normal.

We hit the road for the east coast in the morning, visiting my parents in Avalon, New Jersey (on the shore). Can’t wait, I hear the water’s warm and it promises to be sunny almost the entire week. No blogging until I’m back. Something tells me you’ll manage.