Author: Rick Klau

Barack Obama just concluded his announcement speech in Springfield. To a crowd estimated to be 10-15,000 supporters, he declared he’s officially running for President. The crowd’s a hearty bunch: it’s hovering right around zero degrees today. Visitors to my site will see a link to a fundraising page I built using the new Barack Obama…

Just watched Barack’s preview of tomorrow’s announcement in Springfield. About half-way through, he talks about the new site that will go live as soon as his announcement’s official (transcription is mine, may not be 100%): I hope that you use this website as a tool to organize your friends, your neighbors and your networks. The…

A postscript to last night’s update — though it worked on 99%+ of the posts, several posts that already had hyphens in them were resulting in 404 errors. If you’re running WordPress, I found two plugins that you should absolutely look into using: 404 Notifier. This monitors any 404 errors and notifies you by e-mail…

Last week, I gave up on my Treo and replaced it with a Samsung D807. It’s not a smart phone, it doesn’t have a keyboard. But thanks to the phone, I switched from Outlook full-time to Gmail. And after just a couple days, I’m hooked. OK, the details: the D807 is one of many phones…

Well, it’s almost a year late. When I converted from Movable Type to WordPress, one of the things I put off doing was switch to WordPress permalinks for individual posts. I know, this sounds like a completely useless discussion – whether your posts are published at blog.com/2006/10/12/some_post.php or blog.com/2006/10/12/some-post.php couldn’t be more boring, right? Wrong.…

Wow, this is just fascinating. Congrats to Ross and the Socialtext crew for making this happen… it’s exciting to see such a wonderful example of civic engagement made more effective through the use of technology. Update: Britt Blaser has some background on how this came to be; it’s just so cool to see how this…

A lot of sites have pointed out recently that some Republicans like to “slur” the Democratic Party by dropping the ‘ic’ and calling them the “Democrat Party”. Greg over at TPM raises it today on TPM, pointing to a Washington Post article that contains this graf: Some liberal bloggers and party strategists saw the president’s…

From the press release, here are details about one of my law professors receiving a prestigious award last week: University of Richmond School of Law Professor Azizah Y. al-Hibri [was] awarded the 2007 First Freedom Award, by the Council for America’s First Freedom, to commemorate the anniversary of the nation’s first law guaranteeing religious liberty.…

Has to be my all-time favorite political inside joke: Ugandan discussions. (Originally referenced in this article at Slate about rumors of a relationship between Maria Bartiromo and Citigroup exec Todd Thomson (which may or may not have led to Thomson’s ouster). Who said bloggers had exclusive dominion over printing inuendo?

Tyme White, community director at blog network 9 rules, recently asked her readers for questions about FeedBurner to send my way. The result is a two-part interview (part 1 and part 2) that covers a lot of ground. Tyme and I will be doing a podcast follow-up (probably next week). This was a great process…