Author: Rick Klau

Unreal. Candace Parker, the two-time Naismith Player of the Year, won the dunk contest at the McDonald’s All American Boys and Girls Games. The catch? This wasn’t the girls’ competition. She beat the guys. Last year’s winner? A guy you might have heard of: Lebron James. Candace played her high school ball less than a…

Great cover story at Salon.com by Scott Turow on Barack Obama — [Obama] may become the first black Democrat able to rise above race in the fashion of Powell and Rice, and in doing so become the embodiment of one of America’s most enduring dreams.

Why chase ambulances, when the ambulances come to you online? It turns out that ambulance chasing lawyers have found a much more effective method of going after clients: they have local sheriffs email them a daily list of who’s been arrested – including their home addresses. Some services even promise to send out letters based…

MoveOn.org has a new book out: 50 Ways to Love Your Country. It’s currently #2 at Amazon.com; help make it #1! From the book description: With more than 2 million members, MoveOn is at the cutting edge of a new model for political activism. In their first-ever book, they take their message offline with MoveOn’s…

Healthy baby boy delivered at 1:50 a.m.Saturday! More at www.barbandroland.com soon. I will be off until April 12th. Email, blogging, etc. will take a back seat until then! [Roland Tanglao’s Weblog] Nothing like those first few days with a little one in your life. Congrats to Roland and his wife Barb. And start checking the…

Just booked our tickets on the City of New Orleans train down to Nawlins. I’m best man in my best friend’s wedding in May, and Robin and I decided that a trip with the kids on the train would be a blast. (No, really!) When I told my four year-old that we’d be taking a…

So…anyone know why, on the new Google Local search, when you do a search for “porn” and your zip code, you get a “bunch of results for lawyers”:http://local.google.com/local?sc=1&q=porn&near=98101&btnG=Google+Search&sl=1? [eclecticism] This is a riot. And I just showed it to Jason Krause, the tech reporter for the ABA Journal. We might be seeing more about this……

Jonas Luster riffs on jazzroots. I like this: But grassroots, doesn’t quite cut it for me. What we really have at our hands are Jazzroots. Combining the power of technologies with the dynamics of Jazz. Often unscripted, often just jamming along, and sometimes not very refined, small flares of activism. “Small pieces, loosely joined”, to…

Carl with a K has an advance copy of what is probably the best post mortem on the Dean campaign. For those who would like to pin the campaign’s demise on the software, or the Internet, or the new supporters… this is well worth a read. The answer is both more straightforward and more depressing…

Check this out: the good folks at Bloomba get it. They recognize that one of the barriers to adoption is inertia: most people out there are using Outlook, and they don’t even realize that there’s a better answer. So Bloomba is reaching out to execs at small to mid-sized businesses. Tell them what you do,…