Author: Rick Klau

Jeff Beard posted a graph that shows how the vast majority of hits to his website are courtesy of his RSS feed. While I don’t disagree with Jeff — that RSS feeds make it far easier to distribute your content, and increase the likelihood that your content will get read, let’s not get carried away.…

According to the final tally on the blog, the campaign raised $14.8m last quarter. I’m guessing that when the filings are made in two weeks we’ll be over $15m (counting offline donations, etc.) – beating President Clinton’s record by 50% and tripling the closest candidate (John Kerry, who’s expected to come in around $5m). Unreal.…

Laura Blumenfeld in today’s Washington Post has the first article in a while that focuses on why the campaign is so successful and gets it right. It’s not about anger, it’s not about hate. As I said back on Labor Day, “Ignore the press when they say that what fuels this campaign is anger. They…

It’s bad enough that the half-hour updates to the campaign blog (which have thousands of us hitting refresh every half hour), but to get Slashdot linking to you on the last day of the freakin’ quarter! (For the non-geeks reading this: this means that anywhere between 5-10,000 geeks all tried to read the campaign weblog…

I’ll leave coverage of the Plame affair to the experts (TPM, Atrios, This is Not Funny, Daily Kos are all good places to start), but I did find this to be an exceptionally odd coincidence: Bob Novak’s original article in which Valerie Plame’s cover was blown. Dateline: July 14. Ari Fleischer’s last press conference. Dateline:…

The campaign blog notes that we’ve surpassed $13m raised this quarter, and the Washington Post provides an update that notes that Kerry, Lieberman and Edwards will all see declines from their Q2 totals. This should bring the year to date totals to approximately (Q3 assumptions from PoliticalWire in parentheses): Dean: $25m ($15m) Kerry: $21m ($5m)…

Writing in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune, attorney and adjunct professor at the School for New Learning at DePaul University David Steiger writes that the outsourcing in the IT industry is just a precursor to what’s coming in other industries: It is becoming clear that CPAs, management consultants, attorneys and health professionals who traditionally have been insulated…

Unreal. I subscribe to DirecTV’s Sunday Ticket so that I can watch the 49ers each weekend. Though their play this year wouldn’t seem to justify committing three hours a week to them, I actually enjoy watching them play. Living in Chicago, Sunday Ticket would be a good answer, right? After all, you get to watch…

Jonas shares this wonderful analogy: California : U.S. :: Italy : Europe And then he points to this brilliant Flash movie to elaborate. This made my weekend.

There’s a bit of talk on the web about the fact that Fox News posted Tucker Carlson’s unpublished phone number in response to a joke from Carlson (Carlson is co-host of CNN’s Crossfire). Here’s what happened: Prodded by Paul Begala to give out his phone number during a discussion about the Do Not Call controversy,…