Author: Rick Klau

Cisco Buys Linksys – Moves Into The Home. In a bit of a surprise, Cisco today announced that they’re buying Linksys for $500 million. Linksys is the leader in wireless routers for homes by a long shot, so this lets Cisco move down the chain to a more consumer level offering. Cisco has recently been…

I’m listening to Ari Fleischer’s briefing, and he just reeled off a bunch of stats that are supposed to impress us about the “coalition of the willing”: more than 35 countries more than 1 billion people every race, religion, ethnicity etc.Here’s the problem in citing those stats: Of the 35 countries, only two – ONLY…

If you’re interested in a first-person account from Baghdad, check out “Where is Raed?“. I’m disappointed that I haven’t heard more of this unvarnished information through the major media, but grateful that this site exists. Check it out.

(As you read this, keep in mind that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an employee of the I.T. department.) Cell phone rang at 9:45pm. It’s one of our salesmen. He’s on the road, prepping for a demo tomorrow morning. “What’s wrong?” I ask. “When I press my ‘k’ key, the number…

That was Brobeck’s tag line, part of its much-talked about but under-analyzed branding strategy. Until now, that is. Deborah McMurray, one of my co-authors on the cleverly titled The Lawyer’s Guide to Marketing on the Internet, dissects Brobeck’s brand and the repercussions of its dissolution on the blog devoted to our book. It’s great reading.

The video archive page is updated and includes Governor Dean’s speech to the California Democratic Party on Saturday.

A first-hand write-up from an attendee at the California Democratic Party convention: But the most amazing part was the finale, with a fiery Dean pounding the podium: I want my country back! I don’t want to listen to fundamentalist preachers anymore!When Dean uttered this last line, the whole place went nuts. Utter pandemonium. It was…

Anyone else having problems with feeds they subscribe to at blogspot.com? Specifically, I’m seeing items show up in my aggregator repeatedly – even though they aren’t new. I can’t tell if this is a Radio bug or if it’s a problem at blogspot. com mis-identifying old content as new. If you subscribe to ExcitedUtterances, Dean2004,…

The Dean campaign is demonstrating their Internet savvy yet again – this time by being the only Democratic candidate to sponsor search results at Google. Check out the right-hand column at Google when you search for “Howard Dean“. (Searches for the other candidates reveal that victorystore.com, which sells buttons and the like, has sponsored each…

Check out http://deancalltoaction.blogspot.com/ – I believe this makes Howard Dean the first U.S. presidential candidate to have a weblog. Anyone know of any other candidates for their country’s highest office who’ve maintained weblogs? I figure I would have heard about them, but just wanted to be sure before I changed “first in the U.S.” to “first in…