Author: Rick Klau

I’ve been a Ryze user for a little over a year (my Ryze page is here). In that time, I’ve rekindled a couple of friendships (one was more than 10 years old) and cemented several friendships with people I’ve met online. But there’s been a lot of press attention focused on the social networking phenomenon…

It’s rare that Joel Spolsky writes on a topic that it doesn’t immediately become one of the best articles written on the subject. This week’s article — on internationalization — is no different. While I’m not a programmer, I do work for a software company and issues of interationalization inevitably arise. Customers are often as…

… someone else having a Treo 600.

Great analysis of yesterday’s debate (I didn’t watch it) from Slate. The concluding line is an interesting observation: [T]he guy that’s standing in the way of Dean’s presidential ambitions is Dick Gephardt, not John Kerry.

Johns Hopkins University announces Campaigns Online: The blog will highlight the use of technology in the 2004 Presidential campaign as well as other state and local campaigns. Cool!

Courtesy of Slate, the Democratic debate drinking game.

Josh Marshall has updated his Talking Points Memo site, and now has an RSS feed. Excellent news.

Ed Cone: Weblogs bring second amendment logic to the first amendment.

I just watched Martin Sheen’s intro for Howard Dean (courtesy of DeanTV). One for the ages.

I just did a quick experiment, and discovered a feature of my newsreader (NewzCrawler) that I didn’t know existed: authentication. Last week, I wrote about RSS authentication, and said that “aggregators and web servers will need to be able to pass authentication information back and forth so that individual subscribers can subscribe to private RSS…