Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Howard Coble has a new website, just in time for campaign season. It looks better than his old site, although the content is not much richer, no mention of his sponsorship of HR 3920, the bill that would allow Congress to override some Supreme Court decisions...   (The zebras pictured at Coble's site would seem to be at the NC Zoo, which is in the 6th district -- the wild zebras common to the North Carolina Piedmont tend to be much smaller than those in the photograph.)   Meanwhile, Richard Burr doesn't have as much content at his two sites put together as Erskine Bowles has at his site.   Now if only there was a tool Bowles could use to tie all that stuff together, give the site a real personality, serve a community that would congregate online...hmm...I don't know...maybe a weblog?   I have mentioned it to him myself. I'd be happy to talk to Burr, Coble, and Jordan, too. I'm not a campaign consultant, I'm not selling anything, and I'm not agnostic about one candidate vs. another, I just think politiicans and voters would benefit from the spread of more campaign blogs. 3:26:54 PM    comment []

The High Point Enterprise reports that Greensboro attorney Will Jordan has filed to run for Congress in the 6th district, becoming the first Democrat to challenge Howard Coble since 1996. No quotes from Jordan -- you have to rely on weblogs for that sort of detail -- but at least they aren't ignoring the story completely... How long can the News & Record avoid covering this news? 8:55:15 AM    comment []

Pat Tillman was a hero, but he wasn't a two-dimensional, scripted hero, which makes him even more of a hero. 7:46:42 AM    comment []

Sean Gallagher: On a wing and a Wiki "Under normal circumstances, I don't recommend running a mission-critical application for a large media company on a $7-a-month Web hosting account. But it worked in a pinch." "Ziff Davis experienced a small technical obstacle to our daily operations. Due to the theft of network interface cards from a Verizon co-location facility in Manhattan, our New York office lost access to the Internet from 10:30 p.m. Sunday until about 4:30 p.m. Monday... ...So, I slapped up a password-protected Wiki. And we were back in business." 7:14:25 AM    comment []