Author: Rick Klau

John Palfrey, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law weighs in on my pointer to Prof. Bailyn’s discourse on pamphlets: “Rick’s analogy rings true to me, given a recent experience testifying against the mini-DMCA proposed in Massachusetts. In a centuries-old hearing room, dozens of technologists had come to testify…

You may recall that my wife and I are hosting a house party for Governor Dean next Saturday, April 26. This is part of the campaign’s “Stand Up!“ effort – to commemorate Gov. Dean’s courageous actions in Vermont when he signed the civil union bill into law ensuring equal rights for all Americans regardless of…

I’m looking for a multi-user image management system. The goal is to be able to centrally store images in a database, where users could then query the system on a variety of criteria (show me images of this person with that person, show me images in this state, etc.). A web-based solution would be ideal,…

From a Pulitzer-prize winning historian: “The weblog is a one-man show. One has complete freedom of expression, including, if one chooses, the freedom to be scurrilous, abusive, and seditious; or, on the other hand, to be more detailed, serious and ‘high-brow’ than is ever possible in a newspaper or in most kinds of periodicals. At…

RSS/XML FEED NOW AVAILABLE [Howard Dean 2004 Call to Action Weblog] I won’t be picky – this is great news. (Would love to see the body of the posts in the XML feed too, but I’m just happy to see this feed so that posts to the campaign blog will show up in my aggregator.)…

It turns out that someone bought all of the remaining shares in this site over at Blogshares. What exactly that means is beyond me. (Remember – I went to law school because there was no math.) More worrisome is that this “someone” is actually called – no, I’m not making this up – Biff Gnarly.…

NYT: In Searching the Web, Google Finds Riches Yet more fawning praise for everyone’s favorite Internet company. A “googol,” from whence the search engine derives its name, is a really big number — specifically a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Well, Google isn’t worth quite that much yet, but it’s getting there:Google, a private company,…

Check out BushLites, a blog that explains its purpose in its “about“ page: [I]f people realize how much we need Howard Dean, we have a chance to do some really good things.

Was Saddam Statue Event Staged for Cameras?. David Theroux of the Independent Institute sends a link to a page that may raise serious questions about an event… [Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]Can the tail wag the dog..? [Curiouser and curiouser!]There’s some intersting stuff here. It certainly has more than a whiff of conspiracy theory to it, but…

Palm “Aggregator”. BlogPluck (New). BlogPluck converts web logs in RSS/RDF format to Plucker documents for offline reading. BlogPluck is a Java Web Start application. It can be downloaded, installed and run with a single click. [PalmOpenSource.com] [Ian’s Messy Desk] This is worth checking out – might be a great way of making some weblogs available…