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A politician who listens?
Jen Klyse notes that Andy Rosenberg is running for Congress in her district, he has a weblog, and he’s even responding to comments on his own site by himself. The site looks great, and Andy’s involvement in his own site is commendable. Well done!
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Fast Company on Joe Trippi
Good article at Fast Company about Joe Trippi and the .com that is the Dean campaign. This sounds about right to me: So while he’s frustrated when people focus on the “phoney baloney dotcom thing,” he readily acknowledges the parallels. “Every presidential campaign is a startup,” he says, “and every one becomes, essentially, one of…
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Stop that comment spam
Jay Allen has released MT-Blacklist. I’ve installed it (if you did your own Movable Type install you’ll be fine — you just need to ftp a few files up to your server and run the config) and look forward to cutting down on the number of ridiculous comments left here. Most interesting (as noted by…
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Social networking
I’ve been a Ryze user for a little over a year (my Ryze page is here). In that time, I’ve rekindled a couple of friendships (one was more than 10 years old) and cemented several friendships with people I’ve met online. But there’s been a lot of press attention focused on the social networking phenomenon…
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Everything you need to know about internationalization
It’s rare that Joel Spolsky writes on a topic that it doesn’t immediately become one of the best articles written on the subject. This week’s article — on internationalization — is no different. While I’m not a programmer, I do work for a software company and issues of interationalization inevitably arise. Customers are often as…
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Jealousy is…
… someone else having a Treo 600.
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Slate on the Debate
Great analysis of yesterday’s debate (I didn’t watch it) from Slate. The concluding line is an interesting observation: [T]he guy that’s standing in the way of Dean’s presidential ambitions is Dick Gephardt, not John Kerry.
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New politics site – Campaigns Online
Johns Hopkins University announces Campaigns Online: The blog will highlight the use of technology in the 2004 Presidential campaign as well as other state and local campaigns. Cool!
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Debate drinking game
Courtesy of Slate, the Democratic debate drinking game.
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Talking Points Memo redesign
Josh Marshall has updated his Talking Points Memo site, and now has an RSS feed. Excellent news.