Author: Rick Klau

Priceless. Thanks to Joy for the pointer to this cartoon about KM: Who (what) is your institutional memory?

Hiram Wurf absolutely nails the discussion on medmal reform in Illinois. Using the Cross game as a starting point, Hiram looks at the myriad issues that contribute to the medical malpractice crisis, and points to arguments on both sides of the issue. Great stuff. Hiram, for those that don’t remember, is running for County Board…

Wondering whether George Bush has a chance in Illinois? (He doesn’t.) Wondering whether the latest twist in the Barack Obama / Alan Keyes race (Keyes’s 19 year-old daughter is gay) will change the outcome of the race? (It won’t.) Wondering whether the Illinois GOP is DOA? Well, they’ve still got a heart-beat. Tom Cross and…

Six weeks ago I installed MTBlacklist for Movable Type 3.0, and then upgraded to MT 3.1 when it was released at the end of August. In that short period of time, MTBlacklist has stopped 5,793 comment spams from posting to my weblog. That’s one spam comment every 10 minutes of every day. Yikes.

Very cool: FeedBurner has added Amazon.com web services integration to its service. From their summary: Here’s how the service works: FeedBurner detects your feed categories and then asks you to assign an Amazon store to any category for which you want to include the Amazon Associates program. For example, you might choose to associate the…

Michael Klam wrote a cover story in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine= that profiled Kos, Josh, and Wonkette. Kos and I spoke on a panel in Boston at the DNC, and I was actually present during part of the interview in Boston. (And sadly, I had a coveted invite to the party where the fight…

Lots of interesting innovation going on in the TiVo community lately. First off, TiVoBlog has a nice interview with the creator of JavaHMO, Leon Nicholls. (For those that don’t recall, JavaHMO is a replacement for the desktop software that connects to your TiVo. I wrote about it back in January.) Version 2.0 will include the…

Proving that fake news is getting credibility (no, I’m not talking about Dan Rather, thank you very much), the University of Pennsylvania’s National Annenberg Election Survey shows that viewers of The Daily Show are more aware of candidates’ positions on issues than those who don’t watch late-night TV. Polling conducted between July 15 and Sept.…

Good Lord. (rimshot) The RNC has now admitted that they sent mailings in West Virginia claiming that Democrats want to ban the Bible.

Marty Schwimmer: “Email is becoming unusable as a business tool.“ Marty: it’s even worse than just commercial e-mail; occupational spam is an equally hard problem to solve. Give Socialtext a try…