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I would have liked to have been at this brainstorming session at Hasbro: Okay, what do kids like?  They like Star Wars toys!  But we’ve thrown at them every possible Boba Fett plush pillow and  Luke Skywalker cereal product we can think of. The whole Star Wars schtick has needed a boost of energy for…

Just got an email from an ad rep for a company called Point of Impact Inc. an “e-business company, focused on the promotion and development of internet properties.” Which I guess is another euphemism for for “disseminator of spam.” The rep wanted to pay me up front to put up some text ads on my…

I am unashamedly a diehard Disney theme park fanatic, having visited all of them at least once (Walt Disneyland, Walt Disneyworld, Eurodisney and Disneyland Tokyo). I get totally immersed in the Disney magic just like I was nearly 30 years ago when I went to my first Disney theme park. For me, it’s an irony-free…

CNET reports that the Washington Post has shut down one of their blogs due to profanity and personal attacks against one of their journalists. The shut-down raises interesting questions about newspaper and other media websites. Do these news sources have a civic responsibility to allow comments and criticism of their reporting? What kind of editorial…

I finished the laborious task of porting over my old blog from last year, which are now safely ensconced in the archives of this site. Unfortunately, I can’t figure out how to enable or create a search function, so you’ll have to go by date or category to find something you’re interested in. Bummer.

While I am transitioning over to this new system and backing up my old posts, you can find my old posts still at rikomatic.python-hosting.com/blogomatic. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to port my old blog posts over to this new system on Typepad, so I’ll have to do it manually. Sigh.

Hi folks, welcome to my new blog, “The Click Heard Round the World.” I’m porting over my old blog that was developed using the Plone-based Quills blog software. The company that developed Quills went under a couple of months ago, so it seemed like a good time to move on. This blog focuses on international…