Author: Rick Klau

Looks like a few candidates have discovered that being a full-time politician and a full-time candidate for president can be tough. As many as four of the nine candidates have refused to participate in the forum, expressing reluctance to appear on stage with their rivals in a debate format, NAACP officials said. The four —…

This just in… Stay tuned for rally details as the date gets closer. AFL-CIO to Host Working Families Presidential Forum on August 5th:Union Members to Assess Democratic Candidates at Forum at Chicago’s Navy Pier The AFL-CIO will host a national working families Democratic presidential forum in Chicago on August 5th in conjunction with the AFL-CIO’s…

Now it seems the other shoe has dropped at Userland, and the rules have changed. Dave Winer is the founder of Userland (Userland is the company that makes Radio, a weblogging application) and is now a fellow at Harvard Law’s Berkman Center. In June, Dave lamented that the New York Times had committed a grave…

Thanks to The Long Letter for linking to this article in Saturday’s Washington Post – it’s a good article with some great snippets. But I particulary liked this nugget: After six months of full-time campaigning, he has gone from being the asterisk to the rising star of the nine Democrats vying for the nomination to…

No posts for a while – I’m currently in London on business. Lots of good discussions going on at the official blog — so be sure to swing by there. I’m just now getting caught up on my news aggregator, so I’m hoping to get some posts caught up from the past week or so.…

No shocker that I’m a fan of WiFi – but there’s something incredibly satisfying about sitting down for a cup of coffee 4,000 miles from home – and having Internet access available as soon as you open your laptop. No doubt this will seem quaint in a few years – but it sure seems pretty…

I’m still around – just been busy with July 4th plans. And now I’m in London for just over two days of meetings. I’m hoping to get caught up (there are a number of good KM threads in my aggregator just waiting to get posted) in the next day or so, but it may be…

Bruce Reed and Al From, leaders of the DLC that attacked Governor Dean’s supporters for being “activist elites” last quarter, now write an op-ed in today’s LA Times: Activists Are Out of Step Real Democrats aren’t ideologues. They don’t vote to make a statement; they vote hoping to get things done. They want social progress,…

Ooh! A Google whack to call my own: the “clue primary”. (For you purists, I realize that a real Google-whack has just two words and doesn’t use quotes. Whatever – you get the idea.) Here’s the thing: by all accounts this presidential campaign is different. There are some campaigns who have a clue, and there…

Welcome to the many readers of Salon.com who are showing up here after reading Farhad Manjoo’s article Blogland’s Man of the People about the Dean campaign and the blogosphere. Since I do quite a bit of writing too, I know there’s a ton of angles on the story that Farhad wanted to address (and we…