Archive for the ‘in house’ Category

Fake Homemade Signs

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Washington-state blogger Joshua Longbrake writes about his experience at an overcrowded, spirited Obama rally in Seattle earlier this month. He has this gem of an observation: It was really fascinating to see the Obama campaign team pass out two types of signs: the first set of signs were professionally made [...] ...

We Shouldn’t Have Doubted

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

It was out there all along. (Jake was right.) The Platonic ideal of a video sidebar widget. Guess we finally, in stubborn pique, entered the right words into Google, and there it was: Vodpod. It's not just a widget. No. It's a tool that lets us bookmark and display any ...

Democrats in Rural Texas

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Karl-Thomas Musselman from The Burnt Orange Report, a Democratic group blog based in Austin, TX, has this to say about last night's debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama: I have occasionally taken the liberty of talking about my hometown of Fredericksburg in Gillespie County out west of Austin in the ...

First Flickr Photo

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

In some sidebar avoidance a few days ago, we bookmarked our first Flickr photo: [Steve Rhodes / Flickr] Steve Rhodes' Flickr profile says he's a blogger who covers media, culture, and politics; it wasn't until I checked his profile just now at Tiger Beat that I realized he's a journalist. We'll be ...

The Sidebar

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

The sidebar is, by definition, not supposed to be the focus, right? Unfortunately we've been stubbornly preoccupied by ours for the last few days because it's proving difficult to build. We've got a long wiki "wishlist" going for the site, but we're hung up on "find YouTube 'favorites' widget for ...

Like to Be a Co-Curator?

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

You know you would. If you're a YouTube junkie, if you're obsessed with your local community blogs, if you're always plugged into a podcast, then we want to know you. We're looking for people all over the country and outside the US to wade into Web 2.0 and help us ...

Hello My Name Is

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

A bunch of PRXers are pitching in to get BallotVox off the ground. Jake Shapiro is the mastermind -- he dreamed up the BallotVox idea and now, in addition to running PRX, prods me daily to sign up for the latest social media site that he's discovered on some tech ...

Beginnings

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Welcome to BallotVox! We're a campaign 08 project based at PRX -- we'll be "curating" smart local views on the 2008 election from the blogosphere and other social-media networks. Tired of punditry? Here's where you'll see, read, and listen to the real public conversation about issues and candidates that's streaming ...