Author: Rick Klau

  • Dean and Clark can scale; can Bush?

    This is impressive: in just two weeks, the Clark campaign pulled in $3.5 million, more than 2/3 of which was raised online. Added to Dean’s $5m in the final two weeks and that’s an impressive showing by two “outsiders” in the race. Let’s put this in perspective: as the quarter ended, the Dean and Clark…

  • Instapundit weighs in

    Glenn Reynolds, aka Instapundit, has some observations about weblogs in presidential politics from today’s BloggerCon. This nugget in particular was quite insightful: In this cycle, and (perhaps) the next one, blogs will have more relevance in the run-up to the primary than in the general elections. Blogs aren’t tools of mass persuasion, and won’t be…

  • Betsy Devine’s comments at BloggerCon

    Betsy Devine has some observations from BloggerCon today. Responding to Dave Winer’s frustration at raising money online only to plow it into TV ads: [W]hen I donated money over the web I sure didn’t mean for Dean to go plowing the money back into “the web.” I wanted my money to help Dean become president.…

  • Heath Row transcribes the session

    Heath Row has a near-word-for-word recap of the weblogs in presidential politics session at BloggerCon today.

  • Weblogs in presidential politics

    Tim Jarrett has great coverage of today’s BloggerCon panel on weblogs in presidential politics: Part I, Part II and Part III.

  • Dave Winer doesn’t get the Dean campaign

    This isn’t terribly surprising, given his comments on the campaign to date. But still, it’s surprising that the opinion would be expressed so definitively, especially when the facts are so at odds with the opinion. Britt, who’s at BloggerCon, just reported on a comment made by Dave Winer: Dave Winer just said that the Dean…

  • Novak blows another cover

    This really makes you wonder: CIA Leak Also Exposes Agency Front. What was Novak thinking? The name of the CIA front company was broadcast yesterday by Novak, the syndicated journalist who originally identified Plame. Novak, highlighting Wilson’s ties to Democrats, said on CNN that Wilson’s “wife, the CIA employee, gave $1,000 to Gore and she…

  • Setting the record straight: first blogger interview with a presidential candidate

    Turns out I was wrong. Liberal Oasis was not the first blogger to interview a presidential candidate. That distinction goes to Jerome Armstrong of myDD.com. He met with Howard Dean in June of 2002. And if you want to see the early (and I mean early) coverage on Howard Dean, you can do no better…

  • Ephemeralinks

    Ernie follows up the thread on editing blog posts with a discussion on semi-sorta-kinda-permalinks at Dave Winer’s site. It comes as no surprise that Dave edits his posts — he admits as much and has been clear it’s his policy to do so as he sees fit. Update (10/3/03, 10:42pm): Dave left a comment indicating…

  • Tapped picks up the edit story…

    Writing in Tapped, The American Prospect’s group blog, Garance Franke-Ruta notes: FACT CHECK CLARK, PART II. Blogger Rick Klau has the goods on another example of what is becoming a pattern of easily avoidable inaccurate claims from the Clark camp. Atrios thinks it’s much ado about nothing. And I can’t say I disagree, though I…