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Politics and Technology
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May 14, 2007Portland Mercury
It feels a little strange writing about a panel I'll be sitting on?along with Kari Chisholm of Blue Oregon & Mandate Media, Anna Galland of MoveOn.org, David Goldstein of horsesass.org and KIRO-FM Seattle, and Rick Ray of Onward Oregon and the Archimedes Movement?so I'll quote from something Scott sent out a few days ago. I think he sums it up pretty damn nicely!
...Alex Williams:
I'm at the San Diego airport, waiting for my flight to New York. I flew in, wondering, how will the airport compare to Portland? Well, it's not even close. Reminds me of Philadelphia or St. Louis. Is there an airport that compares at all to Portland? JFK seems pretty good. But, still, it's really of no comparison.
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from the Politics and Technology feed...Anytime there's a new name in the news, speculators rush in and try to grab relevant domain names - in hopes of the big bucks. From the NY Times blog: Last December, Mr. Fruedenberg and two friends spent $975 to...
Sep 1, 2008
There are many good reasons why designers use the fake-greek text "lorem ipsum..." as placeholder text. Among them, because the alternatives are bound to lead you into trouble. A few years back, a friend in higher education told me that...
Aug 18, 2008
In Oklahoma, it appears that the Jim Inhofe campaign did an email append against a voterfile -- and worse, they've made it impossible to unsubscribe. As I've written many, many, many, many, many times before, this is a very bad...
Aug 14, 2008
I've said it many times before: Political campaigns are stunningly conservative when it comes to tactics. Until they've got nothing to lose, most managers and consultants won't deviate off their campaign strategy & budget template. From MediaPost: Almost two-thirds of...
Jul 28, 2008
It's really pretty simple, actually. Don't use government funds to do political campaign work. From Philly.com: Over more than two years, as they toiled in the minority, Democrats in the state House allegedly purchased millions of e-mail addresses to send...