Author: Rick Klau

Outlandish Josh is in Burlington, and writing about his experiences. And David Weinberger just showed up, where Josh gave him a walk-through of DeanSpace, the latest collaborative effort designed to make the grassroots communities self-organizing. Burlington is the place to be these days, isn’t it?

Enough already. The “Dean is McGovern” meme just won’t die, which is really code for “he’s too liberal and he’ll lose everywhere just like McGovern did in ’72.” I think these analogies are off by a few years. At the 1968 Democratic Convention, party bosses controlled the nomination process, resulting in Humphrey’s nomination. This infuriated…

New beta full text search of Wayback Machine archives now available Reminds me of that guy in the movie Total Recall who says, “recall, recall, recall.” You’ve seen the Wayback Machine, right? Now check out the beta search engine, from the same folks, which allows you to seach across those 11 billion plus pages in…

It’s great to see my friend Jeff Beard join the blogosphere at LawTechGuru. And in his first week he’s already given me a great tip — Azure. It’s a Palm app that allows you to connect to your weblog app (like Movable Type”, which is what I use). In fact, I was all set to…

Joe Trippi just sent Jim Jordan a letter. As Josh would say, Dude! You’ve been faced!

The Marshall Plan is coming up a lot lately. Several have pointed out that the Marshall Plan, in today’s dollars, was roughly equivalent to what we’re spending in Iraq. In other words, Iraq wasn’t all that expensive by comparison, and what we’re doing has significant historical precedent. Not so much. I have a little (emphasis…

Over at Unfogged, “Ogged” (who is “not a lawyer and does not live in Chicago”) figures out why many of us are attracted to Dean: I just got my first good look at Howard Dean at the Harkin Steak & Fry broadcast on CSpan. Holy shit. Electric. And two words for why Dean is doing…

If you’re interested in some behind-the-scenes information about the official Dean campaign weblog, be sure to listen to Chris Lydon’s interview with Mathew Gross, the “chief blogger” for the campaign.

Back a couple weekends ago, John Kerry was on Meet the Press and I remarked that Kerry appeared to be avoiding Russert’s Dean baiting: Kerry’s got to be thinking that if he manages to navigate through this race with the nomination in hand, he’ll need the fiercely motivated Dean supporters behind him. And that seems…

Get those Tivos ready, kids. K Street premieres tomorrow night on HBO. From HBO’s website: Executive produced and directed by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh, HBO’s latest groundbreaking series is an experimental fusion of reality and fiction—an entertaining, fly-on-the-wall look at government, filmed in and around the corridors of power in Washington. Starring Beltway insiders…