Author: Rick Klau

For anyone in the greater Chicago area, you might want to check out the DL21C’s campaign training scheduled for Saturday, August 7. I’ll be giving a session in the afternoon on political organizing, with an obvious focus on how to use the Internet effectively in campaigns and outreach efforts.

On the front page of section B of today’s Wall Street Journal is an article about wikis, and prominently features what we’re doing at Socialtext. (If you subscribe to WSJ.com, you can read the article here.) Enter the wiki, which has aims to revive the idea of the “writable Web,” which was how the medium…

OneMan notes that he’s seeing a lot more traffic this week; my daily traffic has more than doubled. Why? Simple: Barack. Whole lot of interest in that skinny guy with the funny name.

That was pretty funny. John Edwards finished his speech, the family joins him, and Elizabeth is holding Jack. C-Span, sensing a special moment, zooms in. Jack’s face fills the screen. It’s almost 11pm. And parents around the country can clearly lip-read: “Mommy, I’m sleepy.” They really are just like us!

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Attended the 11am Democratic GAIN training session with Joe Trippi. I took a ton of notes (long-hand; go figure) and will get them on the blog as soon as I can (meeting Mat Gross, Atrios and Matt Stoller for lunch in a sec, and yes, I’m name-dropping). But I will share the end of the…

The speech rocked. Is there any question that Barack is a future president? The Obama site is collapsing under the traffic – 335 hits per second. Some instant reactions: Pandagon: “He entered this a star, he’s leaving a Clinton.” Kos: “Brilliant. Awesome.” DNC Kicking Ass blog: “One of the most powerful speeches I’ve ever heard.”…

Adina quotes Pete Kaminski, a co-worker of ours (note that I’ve not met Pete nor Adina, and we live in three different states): “Time together is too important to spend working.” I love it.