Author: Rick Klau

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Nice little scoop by Joel Siegel in NY Daily News this morning: top New York financial supporters are holding off on giving any money to the Democratic contenders. In a lot of ways, this helps the underdogs (esp. Dean) and hurts the front-runners. NY is one of the key money states for Democrats – and…

AP reports today that Dean “could be a factor” in Iowa (due to his omnipresence there of late) and “is making an impression” in South Carolina. This early in the race, I’d say the campaign is doing well establishing a toehold in the states that matter. If they can secure strong financial support in this…

From the helpful folks at thought?horizon comes this useful tweak: We have just added a useful tip on how to modify the size of the editor window used to write posts.  The short depth of 9 lines makes longer posts difficult.  The basic steps are: Open the Radio Userland console Open Root.root tables Navigate to…

What: An informational meeting to discuss Howard Dean’s presidential campaignWhere: Rick & Robin Klau’s house, 1416 Oswego Road, Naperville, ILWhen: Thursday, February 20th, 7pm – 8pmRSVP: dean2004@rklau.com Rick & Robin Klau are Naperville residents who are hosting a ‘Dean house party’ to share information about the Dean campaign. Howard Dean was the longest-running Democratic governor in the country, serving…

Let’s hope that the campaign starts managing its volunteer base better – a number of us would’ve loved to host an event with Governor Dean while he was in town. I’m sure this won’t be the last time. Stay tuned for an announcement about a local “house party” (read: fundraiser) for the Dean campaign at…

My good friend Erik Heels went live with his Radio-powered site last week. Part of this is an experiment to see whether weblogs deliver greater ROI than a traditional website (his “ traditional” site is a database-powered website that is at heels.com). Keep an eye on this. Erik’s analysis is always detailed and his conclusions…

MSNBC: Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth.

This strikes me as an absolutely ideal use of the Internet: For anyone who has recorded video or taken photos that they believe may be of aid in the investigation of the Space Shuttle Columbia accident, NASA has established a special location on the Web where Internet users may upload their media files to be…

newsQuakes. … [Jon’s Radio] This has popped up in my news aggregator a couple times. Check it out – a seriously cool example of where stuff like this could end up. The challenge of visualizing information is a fascinating one – and this applies a geographic overlay to breaking news. Nice idea.