Author: Rick Klau

Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | A future worth fighting for Finally I understand that the Matrix movies are striving for a massively contradictory epic about love and hope, a grand and maybe impossible vision of living in a world of technology and escaping it at the same time, of being truly alive in a dead…

Matrix Sequel Has Hacker Cred Techies seem to enjoy poking fun at various movies that try to show hackers at work – since they always get something (and often everything) wrong in a terrible Hollywood attempt to show hacking to a general audience. So, imagine their surprise to find out that some hacking scenes in…

First reaction: Matrix Reloaded is fantastic. There’s as much depth here as there was in the first, with some new themes and many expansions to the first. Some questions: Why 314 seconds in the Source? John 3:14 (“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be…

Weblogs and knowledge management Another stream of recent posts has focused on weblogs as a tool for knowledge management both to capture and share knowledge. They include a mix of posts focusing on individual knowledge workers and on knowledge workers within organizations. [via McGee’s Musings] Jim – great job summarizing some wonderful writing on the…

NDOL: The Real Soul of the Democratic Party by Al From and Bruce Reed DLC Memo TO: Leading Democrats FROM: Al From and Bruce Reed SUBJECT: The Real Soul of the Democratic Party Notwithstanding the current glee in Republican circles, we are increasingly confident that President Bush can be beaten next year. If Democrats run…

Communal topics and super-blogs Something we’ve just got working today (okay Simone got it working, but I did a valuable job cheering him on) is one of the final pieces in the k-collector puzzle. The server now sends the client a URL corresponding to each topic in the cloud. This enables the client to create…

I forget where I read this, but whoever said it really nailed it. Trackback isn’t what I want. I want it in the other direction. I want to know which of my outbound links were the most popular. Yes yes, we know how to do it. [via Scripting News] I disagree. I first asked for…

DEAN’S HEALTH CARE PLAN HITS THE PRESS Both Reuters and CNN have great stories on the health care plan Dean unveiled this morning. Also, the Dean for America website now has a side-by-side comparison of Dean’s and Gephardt’s health care plans, a full summary, and a health care survey—along with a downloadable file including the…

In the 18 months that I’ve kept this weblog, I’ve been very fortunate to meet with some people whose contributions to the field I consider to be significant. Tonight is another one of those moments – I had drinks with Marc Barrot, creator of activeRenderer and developer of an as-yet-unannounced new project that will be…

Run, Joe, Run In this article, Beinart refers to Dean as the “candidate of Democratic fantasy” and Lieberman as “the candidate of Democratic desperation”. Of most interest (to me, anyway), is the deconstruction of Lieberman’s strategy: focusing on blacks and moderate whites. Beinart points out that in past primary elections, those groups tended to solidify…