Archive for April, 2006
Gayl Ferraro re-elected
Final results: 4766 to 2065.
Reporting from the county convention
This is classic. We are currently debating what rules govern the agenda, and the candidates don’t even know whether they can speak before the vote.
More in the comments.
links for 2006-04-19
MySpace for the Office Wow. Kleiner Perkins led a $17m round for Visible Path, who’s pitching corporate social networking. I recall making a similar pitch about two and a half years ago… (tags: social networks visible path vc) TinyScreenfuls.com » Blog Archive » How to delight your users (or: FeedBurner support rocks!) Thanks for the kind words, Josh. It […]
DuPage County Democratic Convention
Tonight ought to be entertaining, it’s the county convention and it’s a contested race for county chair. As I mentioned last week, I’m backing Gayl Ferraro in her reelection effort. Her opponent, Doug Cole, doesn’t strike me as the guy we need in charge of the county party: his well-publicized antagonism of the Duckworth campaign, […]
links for 2006-04-18
Barron’s: TiVo ripe for buyout? TiVo is about to get bought? This seems to crop up every few months… and so far, they’ve done just fine on their own. I don’t see Google being a good match – but I think Apple would be darn near perfect. More on that later. (tags: TiVo Apple acquisition) alarm:clock: Former Expedia […]
Podcasting is big
Figured out last night that today is officially my one year anniversary at FeedBurner. Hard to believe it’s just been a year — we’ve grown from a handful of employees (I was # 6 or 7) to 25 (with a little room left — see our jobs page for more!). We managed around 20,000 feeds […]
JotSpot Family site errors
This is annoying. After posting on Sunday about the JotSpot family site, I signed up to give it a test drive. I started playing with the family tree a bit, adding in a few generations and linking people up. The UI was pretty straightforward, adding people was easy, and all was good.
Then this:
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links for 2006-04-17
/Message: Calling All Web 2.0 Apps: Clothe Stowe For 2006 Come on, Stowe: how much to rent the beret? (tags: web20 marketing) ‘He would do it again’ Tough story about a heroic grandfather who died trying to save his grandchildren. (tags: Naperville family) Trees May Be Root of Some Evil Great headline.
Ryan guilty on all counts
Wow. Watching the live video stream now from the courthouse, Governor Ryan is going to go to jail.
Explain to me disclaimer again?
Hilarious quote from a not so funny situation:
“It’s for fun and games,” spokeswoman Katie Kroft said.“This is why we have everybody sign a waiver.”
Someone needs to go back to media training. When kids are injured, the words “fun” and “games” shouldn’t be in your lexicon.
