PME Wrap-up: Back to the Future
I spent the weekend in -lovely- -beautiful- sunny (yeah, at least it was sunny) Ontario, CA for the “Podcast and Portable Media Expo”:http://www.portablemediaexpo.com/. In its second year, it brought together over 2,000 attendees who ran the gamut from new podcaster up to some of the most widely-known podcasters around (yes, I met “the ninja”:http://www.askaninja.com/ and [...]
Nicco Mele
A couple days ago, my friend Nicco Mele (most famous for being the webmaster for Dean for America, but also known as the founder at Echo Ditto) “announced”:http://nicco.org/blog/2006/08/24/mccain/ that he was supporting John McCain for president in 2008. Reaction was swift: Markos “wrote him off”:http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/8/24/193540/574. Zack Exley (formerly at MoveOn, and former tech guy at [...]
Ernie the Pundit
Over the weekend I caught up on the mail which had piled up during the past few weeks, and saw that my alumni magazine did a big story on blogs. I was pleased to see that their “best of the best” they put “Ernie”:http://www.ernietheattorney.net/ on the list. If there was ever any doubt Ernie belonged [...]
Fill My iPod is addictive
The other day I decided to have you “fill my iPod”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2006/07/17/fill_my_ipod.php, and it’s been addictive to watch the songs come in. Some of you have tagged songs, some have tagged podcasts… and almost two dozen of you have “subscribed to the feed”:http://feeds.feedburner.com/rklau/ricksipod, which I find hilarious. (It’s my vacation!)
I’ve also found that I use this [...]
Cowboy Junkies at Morton Arboretum
Meant to mention this over the weekend — we had a wonderful night at the Morton Arboretum watching the “Cowboy Junkies”:http://www.cowboyjunkies.com/ perform (their only performance all summer, as they’re currently in the studio recording a new album). The Junkies are particularly meaningful for Robin and me, as we played “The Anniversary Song” as our last [...]
Fill my iPod
The family’s hitting the road on Friday to head east, one week at my parents place on the Jersey Shore, then Robin and the kids head to her folks while I have a fair amount of business travel queued up. Just for the heck of it, I want to see if you’ve got anything for [...]
Best of luck, Denise
Denise Howell, one of the original lawyer bloggers and one of the most thoughtful commentators on the intersection of technology, law and life, “announced”:http://bgbg.blogspot.com/2006/07/have-aeron-will-travel.html over the weekend that she’s been fired. That’s a gutsy thing to do (in a similar situation, I remained silent on the subject), and her commitment to facing the uncertainties of [...]
Paul Curreri house concert
Last night was a blast — “Paul Curreri”:http://www.paulcurreri.com/ was in town and played for nearly two hours at our house. We had a nice crowd, and I think it’s safe to say Paul has a lot of new fans now. Thanks to everyone who came!
“Evan”:http://www.internetcases.com/ has already put a couple pictures up on “Flickr”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/jill_evan_and_austin/tags/klau_party. And [...]
Local media training
One Man was on TV the other night, and complained that instead of saying something intelligible, he was quoted as saying this: “Aurora lost something unique to town, We don’t have a whole lot other towns next to us don’t have. It’s depressing.” He really is a Republican! (If One Man can crack the [...]
Funniest. Podcast. Ever.
I dare you to listen to “Kris and Betsy”:http://www.croncast.com/ recount their vacation from hell and not laugh until you cry (part one, part two; part three is coming Friday). My sides hurt, in a “I feel your pain but it’s still funny as shit” kind of way. Jesus, there has to be a film that [...]
