Author: Rick Klau

In his post from the Personal Democracy Forum, David Weinberger writes of panelist Ron Wyden: Wyden was running for Congress for the first time. My wife called his office with a question about one of his stands, and dang if Wyden himself didn’t call back and talk with my wife for 20 minutes. So, she…

AP – Strip club owners are putting a little bada-bing in the presidential campaign by asking patrons to turn their eyes away from the stage for a moment to fill out a voter registration form — and then vote against President Bush. [Yahoo! News – Politics] There are plenty of other bad puns to make…

Absolutely the best commencement address ever. Funny, poignant, and told for the students and not anyone else. Excellent.

The cover on my Treo cracked again (I had the 270, it replaced a 180 which had a screen crack). I’m not traveling as much these days, so a smart phone with e-mail access isn’t as important. I’m primarily interested in long talk/standby time, and the ability to sync with my PC. Beyond that, anything…

Had a thoroughly engaging dinner last night with Ross, Jerry Michalski, and Peter Kollock. Peter asked Jerry for a demo of Personal Brain, a personal mind mapping kind of product that is quite interesting. (Jerry advises TheBrain Technologies Corporation, the company behind The Brain.) I had heard about the product before, but never seen it…

Prof. Yabut has divined the Bush Administration’s exit strategy for Iraq. My sidenote to Iraq, if the good Professor is on to something: Be careful what you wish for. The Devil you know, and all that jazz. Just sayin.

Don’t know how I missed it, but the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology published its fifth and final issue last month. (I founded JOLT while a law student at the University of Richmond.) The site is now as attractive as it is substantive. (The same couldn’t be said of our first issue, which was…

I’m thoroughly enjoying the Red Herring Spring conference. I’ve often been the guy expected to pitch my company’s story (more on that later) — and the opportunity to watch dozens of companies pitch themselves is like a peek through the looking glass. And I’m also enjoying the experiment of setting up 100 conversations for the…

Just sat in on William Janeway’s keynote presentation at Red Herring Spring. I blogged my observations on the Socialtext Eventspace here. Two book recommendations from Janeway, that will be wort reading: Technology Paradise Lost: Why Companies Will Spend Less to Get More from Information Technology by Erik Keller, and Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools,…

Ross has some great notes from the Red Herring Spring conference. Funny – I’ve worked at Socialtext for more than 2 months, this was the first time I’ve been in the same room with a co-worker. And it lasted 15 minutes, before Ross had to head back to SF for the Institute for the Future…