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Re: Calling All Convention Bloggers
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 09/14/2004 - 15:00Brian Reich of the Campaign Web Review, has asked the following set of questions. Instead of just sending them off as an email, I thought I would answer the questions on my blog.
Site Review
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 09/14/2004 - 09:53Site Review
The Orient Lodge site is now a little over a month old and I thought this would be a good opportunity reflect on how it is going. The site is based on Drupal 4.4 without any special tweaks. I have played with the configuration trying to come up with the best layout. Is it better to have ‘blocks’ on the left, on the right, on both sides? I started off with them on the right, but I read some articles about how people read newspapers and websites that suggested it might be better to have the content on the right. I’ve now read some contradictory data, so I’m reconsidering this decision.
Using SIPPhone conferences
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 09/08/2004 - 22:39Over the past several months, I have often been on conference calls, often with other technologists using one of the free conference call services on the Internet. These services aren’t really all that free. They are a long distance call, and even for people with a lot of minutes, they eat up the minutes rather quickly.
Fired for Blogging at Friendster?
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 08/31/2004 - 12:10Gee, I'm hoping that my blogging will help me get hired somewhere...
Corrante is reporting that Joyce Park got fired for blogging about what is going on at Friendster.
Senatorial Blogs
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 08/27/2004 - 14:59(Originally posted at Greater Democracy)
The other day, I participated in a conference call put together by Mathew Gross for bloggers interested in the Erskine Bowles campaign. I was very interested in this because it was the first conference call I know of by a senatorial campaign aimed at the blogging community. It follows nicely on the blogging of political conventions.
There was a bit of talk about polls and strategy, but the conference call just didn’t get me excited. Bowles has a blog, which is pretty good. There are nearly sixties entries in the blog. Nearly half of them have no comments and only two had more then ten comments, one had 15 and one had 24. It is worth noting that the two entries that had the most comments were primarily about issues. The most commented on entry was about a new ad Bowles is running on health care. The second most commented entry was about an editorial discussion Bowles plan for Homeland Security.
Quite a few of the entries were written by ‘Staff Writer’. Posts which don’t reveal the author always bother me. In some cases, it did reveal the writer in the post. On the upside, six of the posts were identified as being written by Bowles.
