Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
[Octoferret / Flickr]
Our co-curators are poised to roll up their sleeves and get to work finding good stuff to add to BallotVox. Here at PRX, Genevieve Sponsler and intern Larissa Zhou will be helping out; and across the country Sarolta Cump, Misa Dayson, James Mills, Ann Raber, and Sue Salinger ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Via co-curator Ann Raber, a largely conservative student perspective -- from the University of Dallas and the University of Texas at Dallas -- on the Democratic candiates:
Sirmontag, who made the video, grew up in Dayton, OH, and currently lives in Dallas. He is a man of many hobbies, from blacksmithing ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Coffee cups! [wrumsby / Flickr]
We're not asleep at the wheel. We promise. In fact we're reasonably caffeinated, though we haven't been blogging much; instead we've been hiring great co-curators and figuring out how exactly to collect and sort and display all of the content we'll be finding.
On the tech front, ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Posting will be thin to nonexistent for the next few days as we focus on hiring co-curators. We're eager for their help. Course then there's still the matter of finishing the site construction...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
At the US-Islamic World Form [josholalia / Flickr]
The blogger Abu Aardvark -- aka Marc Lynch, a Middle East expert and political-science professor at George Washington University -- was recently at the Brookings Institution's US-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar. He reports that the attention paid to Iraq paled in comparison ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
[Mike Licht, NotionsCapitol.com / Flickr]
Jen, a Californian blogger who also writes for a group blog called MOMocrats, is frustrated with both Democratic candidates after last night's Cleveland debate. All it would take to get her support, she says, is this:
Stop hedging. Stop couching everything. Admit you could have done something ...
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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 [...] ...
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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 ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Conservative blogger Sean Hackbarth argued a couple of days ago that John McCain is missing a good opportunity to rally conservatives. In Berkeley, CA, the City Council and antiwar protesters like Code Pink have been resisting the local Marine recruiting office -- and Hackbarth points out that McCain, unlike many ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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