Author: Rick Klau

Straight from the campaign: Hello friends, I just wanted to let you know that the campaign has set up a Howard Dean 2004 Call to Action weblog. Tell your friends about it and visit it daily to find out how you can help elect Howard Dean the next President of the United States! Visit the new blog…

So here’s an interesting twist on the blogs-as-journalism meme (my second in a week, no less): I maintain a blog about a presidential campaign. In that blog, I keep an outline which is an up-to-date archive of the major articles about the candidate. It generates a lot of traffic, and I’ve received quite a bit…

Like Online Dating, With a Political Spin. Hundreds of people turned out in New York last week to hear a presidential candidate at an event organized not by his campaign staff but by a Web site. By Lisa Napoli. [New York Times: Technology] I’m posting this to my personal blog (and not to the one…

This report in today’s Seattle Times raises questions whether Soros has “endorsed” Dean; the article claims he would endorse “either Kerry or Dean.” Interesting. Hedging his bets?

I totally missed this the first time around, but it’s brainlessly easy and adds a nice little enhancement to your blog. A quick review – many blogs publish two versions of their site – HTML, which is what you view when you look at the blog through a web browser. At the same time, many…

Progress mag The Nation magazine published a lengthy profile of Governor Dean this week, and it is accompanied by an hour-long interview with Radio Nation’s David Corn. No sound-bites, lots of substance. Corn tries to paint Dean with some labels, and isn’t exactly blown away by the governor. Then again, that may not be a bad…

Guess I’m not the only one speculating about Kapor’s departure from Groove: Dan Gillmor writes in his column today : My immediate instinct was to praise Kapor for showing honor and principle. This implicitly suggested a lack of those qualities on the part of Groove’s leaders, and on reflection I concluded I was being too harsh.…

Search Tool Added Through Lilia Efimova …. Search Tool AddedThrough Lilia Efimova I found Micah Alpern’s microblogosphere search tool (go see Micah’s weblog). As a search tool to search my own blog, and the ones I read, was something I already had on my wishlist of improvements for my blog, I’ve imeddiately added it on…

Here’s a great report by Lisa Napoli about the resounding success of the NYC meetup.com rally for Governor Dean last week. Most interesting is the fact that the Dean campaign has partnered with meetup.com – paying the company a fee in exchange for access to the e-mail list of declared Dean supporters. The result? A…

Ernie shares a piece of advice that would have saved a year of my law school education: But, here’s a tip for you efficiency seeking law-students that I wish someone had told me about sooner.  If you want to figure out quickly what the point of the majority opinion is read the dissent.  They’ve got…