Author: Rick Klau

Over at my Dean campaign blog, I mentioned that I helped the campaign update the official campaign blog over the weekend. Specifically, we added permalinks to comments and added “mail this entry to a friend” functionality. Both are simple tweaks to Movable Type that greatly enhance the weblog. One of my readers asked how I…

Vermont Public Radio (VPR) will have Howard on live from Iowa this Thursday, July 24, from 7pm-8:30pm(east-coast time.) If you can’t tune in VPR in your area, you can listen live on their website. This is part of their Switchboard series which is a call-in show that Howard appeared on frequently while Governor.

New from the DoD and Accenture: “eDemocracy” Think web elections are a long way off? Think again. A lucky few American citizens will be able to vote online in the upcoming 2004 presidential elections, thanks to a Department of Defense project called SERVE. [via kuro5hin.org] nbsp

We did a little tinkering over at the official campaign blog this afternoon. With the watchful eye of Mathew Gross over my virtual shoulder, we overhauled several things: Comments now have permalinks. If you see something that someone says that you want to share, you can now share it by simply copying the link next…

JRobb is Back! John Robb is back, located now at MindPlex.org. [via Bryan Strawser

Like Matthew Langer, I have long been an admirer of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (I have my high school history teacher — Winslow Smith — to thank for that.) For that reason, I quote in its entirety Matthew’s post from earlier today. I completely agree with him — this is breathtaking. I read a lot of…

So I got interested in Google’s new AdSense program. It doesn’t cost much to run this blog (all told, hosting and software costs run about $300/year), but I figured the AdSense program might be a nice way to recoup just a tiny bit of the investment. So I signed up. Here is the e-mail thread…

Caught over at The Volokh Conspiracy, check out this wonderful example of judicial common sense: FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN HYPERPHRASE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC and HYPERPHRASE INC., ORDER Plaintiffs, 02-C-647-C v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION, Defendant. Pursuant to the modified scheduling order, the parties in this case had until June 25, 2003 to file summary judgment motions.…

Up2Speed: mLife Dies, AT&T Won’t Admit It Stunk AT&T’s fuzzy and conceited mLife campaign was taken behind the barn and shot. Presumably by a smiling 30-something in high-contrast colors carrying a cell phone. One of the worst-conceived campaigns ever to soak up $120 million finally died, with AT&T’s firing of Ogilvy & Mather (O&M) and…

Maximizing The Power of Blog Software Interesting ideas from A Whole Lotta Nothing [via Dennis Kennedy] on getting the maximum value out of Movable Type: “It’s pretty common for people new to weblogging to embrace the simplicity of publishing, and crave it in the rest of their tools. Once you start blogging and the pain…