Author: Rick Klau

For the lawyer types reading this, you should check out the latest issue of the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology. It includes articles on: California’s Database Breach Notification Security Act: The First State Breach Notification Law is Not Yet a Suitable Template For National Identity Theft Legislation (HTML, PDF) Towards a Theory of Cyberplace:…

Courtesy of Jim in my comments, I just found out that Gregg Easterbrook has posted an update about the status of TMQ. While we wait for TMQ to return (I’ll gladly offer this website as a home, though I doubt I quite qualify for “prominent website” status, which Gregg seems to have set as a…

Though my wife and I couldn’t attend this event (it was my birthday, and we’d already made plans), the DuPage for Dean crowd had a great time Saturday night. Organized by Karen and Doug Henk (Karen heads up volunteering efforts for us in DuPage), this was an innovative outreach event that I think would work…

Saw a lot of familiar faces tonight at the Civic Opera House, where several hundred people raised a lot of money for Governor Dean’s campaign. In many ways, it’s reassuring to see several of the same people who have been with the campaign in Illinois since the early days this year. Also exciting was to…

I’m writing an article about social networking and the crop of sites that are gaining some attention lately (Spoke, LinkedIn, Ryze, Tribe, and ZeroDegrees). As a teaser, I wanted to write about the original Oracle of Bacon developed by a couple of grad students at UVa. Here’s the shocking thing: Kevin Bacon isn’t even among…

Twelve days since John’s last post. Anyone heard from him?

I hadn’t seen this discussed elsewhere: Upcoming.org — an RSS-driven calendar service that lets you post an RSS version of your calendar to your weblog. Simple idea, great execution. Look for an upcoming nugget on the sidebar soon… Update 8:10pm: OK, so I probably should have played with this before posting about it. I was…

Light posts the last couple days, thanks to a much-needed weekend of Internet-free time. Many thanks to my parents, who flew in and not only helped me celebrate but also graciously watched the kids last night so my wife and I could spend a night kid-free downtown Chicago. Friday night, we took my parents to…

Zogby News! Dean Soars into Huge Lead in New Hampshire: Now Leads Kerry 40-17 Among Likely Voters; Clark and Edwards in Distant 3rd —New Zogby Poll Perhaps most interesting: Dean has the lowest unfavorable rating (11%) of all candidates; Kerry has a 26% unfavorable rating.

Over at Greater Democracy, Michael Cudahy posted a very thought-provoking essay about how the Democratic primary race may be losing its focus. More specifically, I think, he’s arguing that the focus — on Democratic partisans to the exclusion of Republicans and Independents — is broken and will inevitably lead to a Democratic defeat in November.…