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My friends at Echo Ditto (many of them are Dean campaign veterans) need a CTO, to replace Jim Brayton who’s leaving to join Barack Obama’s senate office as the Internet Director. Details follow: If you live near DC (or would consider relocating), have strong technology management experience, and would enjoy using your expertise to fight…

Brad Feld (who is an investor in and board member of FeedBurner) has a great post today about capitalization strategies for growing companies. I’ve never been much of a financial whiz (cue punch line: “That’s why he went to law school!”), but having gone through one IPO, a stock split in a privately-held company, and…

From Taegan Goddard: “It’s not a pay raise. It’s an adjustment so that they’re not losing their purchasing power.” — House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX), quoted by the AP, on a vote to increase congressional salaries. [Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire]

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.