Author: Rick Klau

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In a conversation yesterday with a technology analyst, I got into a debate about the desirability of false responses. Which is more desirable (from a KM perspective): a false positive (i.e., a response to your query which turns out to be wrong), or a false negative (the system telling you it has nothing relevant, when…

Now, the ABA has been very very good to me (sounds better with a Sammy Sosa accent, but oh well), so I don’t highlight this issue lightly. I’m genuinely fond of the organization. But this strikes me as more than a bit ridiculous: What’s wrong with an airport hotel? I mean, I loved my trip…

This pretty much sums up politics these days, no? [Calvin and Hobbes]

Check out this page with bios of the many people who post regularly to the official campaign blog. What a great idea!

As I noted in the comments last night, I’m in Newsweek this week as a result of last week’s post on the attack ads hitting Dean. I think the funniest thing to come of this is that my Dad (whose name is also Rick Klau) has been receiving faxes of the article all day from…

The Washington Post has the story. No official word from the campaign. WHOA.

What a year it’s been. I first contacted the Dean campaign in August, 2002 (shortly after writing this post). I swapped e-mails periodically (I still have the e-mail correspondence from September 1 when I was telling them they needed a blog!), and then finally started thinking that there was more to his candidacy than the…

Check this out: went to this page to read about the “new” Space Invaders video games coming to the U.S. (thanks to TechDirt for the link), when this little guy popped up: Annoying, to say the least. But what average user actually understands this, or wants to?