Author: Rick Klau

I was intrigued by the Dean campaign’s announcement, so I did a little bit of digging to find out more about upoc.com, the provider who’s making it possible to use SMS as a communications platform for the campaign. Turns out they have a corporate site, with info about what they do, why they’re different, and…

Well, well. A presidential campaign with a weblog? That’s so, well, last month. Now the Dean campaign announces it’s got a “phonenet” – where Dean supporters can sign up to receive SMS text messages from the campaign. From an e-mail today from Zephyr Teachout, who’s involved in the campaign’s Internet strategy: Go to www.upoc.com Click…

I won’t be going tomorrow, and I’ll share my thoughts on today’s discussions later, but I couldn’t help but note this: the WiFi network at TechShow was nuked, apparently by an unsuspecting TechShow attendee whose computer was infected and was flooding the WiFi access points with bogus requests. (Hence my spotty posts today.) Or perhaps…

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If there were any doubt about the effectiveness of the grassroots effort being marshalled by the Howard Dean campaign, go visit the comments at the DeanBlog for affirmation. City after city report stunning turnout (most impressive: Oregon’s former governor showing up at the Portland meetup to announce her support for Dean!) – according to Meetup,…

Kevin Drumm (aka CalPundit) is thinking about the 2004 presidential election, and Jesse Berney (aka Wage Slave) are doing some good out-loud thinking about what the 2004 election holds for the Democrats. There’s some good analysis on all sides, with the conclusion appearing to be that only Dean and Edwards have a credible shot. It’s…

Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr debunks the EFF analysis of the now dead Patiot II proposal from the DOJ. ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION ON THE CRYPTO-AS-A-CRIME PROPOSAL: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released an analysis of the now-dead-in-the-water leaked DOJ proposal that many have dubbed Patriot II. I haven’t read the whole EFF analysis,…

With the end of Q1 has come a slew of announcements from the major Democratic candidates about their fundraising efforts. Here are the totals: John Edwards: $7.4m John Kerry: $7m Richard Gephardt: $3.6m Joe Lieberman: $3m Howard Dean: $2.6mThose who read this blog regularly know I’m a partisan of Howard Dean’s, and his total –…

Erik Heels is now testing out Movable Type as a blogging platform for his law firm web site. In his latest post, he’s wondering what the ROI on the weblog app is. Based on a conversation at lunch today with Tom Mighell, I got to thinking about Erik’s experiment and decided to finally chip in…