Author: Rick Klau

Carolina Panthers – The Democratic presidential race gets nasty. By William Saletan Mean Dean. Howard Dean has come a long way by distinguishing himself as a confident, effective liberal. He’s managed that rare synthesis of candidate-who-says-what-he-believes and governor-who-gets-things-done.

Some not-so-flattering feedback from a left-leaning blogger about last night’s debate: Quick Thoughts On The Debate Dean’s unfitness for office is slowly revealing itself over time. Little things, like the bad attitude, the way he comes of sounding like an elementary school child in an “I know you are but what am I” argument, the…

Blogs increase the surface area of organizations I’m often criticized for using biological metaphors for organizations, but I think they’re very effective sometimes. Seb’s Open Research Blogs increase the surface area of organizations Jon Udell has got a keen eye for biological metaphors for information systems, and here comes up with a nice one for…

You mean I’m not an enigma? I was reading something today about how bloggers quite often don’t offer the reader any information about themselves at all. I guess it’s true, although I don’t hide my biases it’s probably hard to judge what sort of person I am. So i’ve added a little bit of biography…

Some interesting discussion about the Dean’s official campaign blog: MATTHEW GROSS:The gentleman apparently charged with the primary responsibility for Howard Dean’s official campaign blog is turning out to be one of the best bloggers around. Matthew Gross is the source for official Dean news, but he uses the campaign’s blog as more than an outlet…

I mentioned this back in March when I spoke with Robert Cringely about an upcoming column. Well, the May issue hit the stands yesterday, and Cringely quotes me on the state of the profession. Cool.

The First Debate “All Eyes On Dean for Democrats’ first 2004 rumble,” the Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire writes. “In presidential wannabes’ debate Saturday in South Carolina, the former Vermont governor could tangle over national security with fellow New Englander Kerry, his top rival for January’s New Hampshire caucus, and with Rep. Gephardt… [via Taegan…

WHERE TO SEE AND HEAR THE DEBATE From today’s Note (via email only): This weekend, you can see the debate in many cities on ABC stations following your late local news Saturday night. We promise it will be better than Saturday Night Live. Drudge has a list of which affiliates are carrying the debate here,…

Turns out that the RSS 2.0 feed for this site is actually including just the abbreviated feed (just like the RSS 1.0 feed). I’m about to board a plane, but will fix this by the weekend so you’ll be able to read either the snippet or the full text.

As of today, I’ve converted from using Radio Userland to Movable Type for the maintenance of this weblog. The net effect to most readers will be transparent – for readers in the aggregator, you’ll continue to get the same RSS feed you’ve always read. (Note: there’s also an abbreviated feed available if you’re interested.)First, a…