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In past there has been some discussion of doing an NCAA pool for OP participants.
Are y'all interested? If so, do you recommend an online service to manage it? Some that I've found include: Yahoo, Facebook (requires registration), ESPN, and a variety of others sites that are more expensive and less well-known.
I wonder if any of these include the women's bracket? That could be a problem for me 'cause I always pick UNC to win.
Thanks to the News & Observer for reporting that "Blogs are changing politics." I know that's a real newsflash for all you OP readers.
This story raised two questions for me:
1. Didn't Tom Jensen already write an informative column about this exact same subject (elected officials blogging)? Ah yes, here it is: "Blogs keep us plugged in on politics," 12/16/06.
2. How many of the people in this article had blogs before OrangePolitics started?
Pearce said the Triangle's political bloggers are centered in Orange County because its politics tend to be more liberal.
- newsobserver.com | Blogs are changing politics, 2/2/07
Hmm, yeah that's probably it. There's no other reason Orange County would have a disproportionate number of political bloggers.
I have just added a feature that should help to reduce the amount of time required to run OrangePolitics. We currently get about 100-200 spam comments each day, and they all go into the same moderation queue as comments from new users who simply have to be verified and approved.
On the comment form you will now find an extra field where you can type in the numbers and letters that appear next to it to prove that you are a human and not a spam-bot (a captcha). Please let me know if you have any problems!
I know there are a few other broken things around here. I haven't addressed all of the problems as I am hoping to move the site to a whole new platform later this year. More about that later, but if you have any suggestions for hosted drupal solutions, do let me know. ;-)
From "Seven who will matter in 2007" (News & Observer, 1/1/2007):
Tom Jensen has worked on two dozen political campaigns.
He writes weekly columns for a local newspaper. He helps edit a local
political blog. He's on Chapel Hill's planning board.
And he is 23.
Jensen's latest project is to persuade North Carolina cities to sign a commitment to reduce greenhouse gases.
The effort, based on a climate protection agreement by the U.S.
Conference of Mayors, amounts to sort of a local government version of
the international Kyoto Protocol, Jensen said.
Five cities have already signed up. The N.C. Sierra Club's goal is
12 by the end of 2007, although Jensen confided that he is hoping far
more will commit. Jensen said he isn't interested in only the biggest
cities.
"There's no reason small cities shouldn't be environmental leaders,
too," said Jensen, who rides the bus from Chapel Hill to Raleigh for
work each day.
So I'll be gone for the rest of the week doing dual duty as a granddaughter and conference panelist. I'll be speaking about OrangePolitics at the National Forum of the Alliance for Regional Stewardship. I'm not telling you this to brag but to a) let you know what a special thing we have going here, and b) ask for your input on the topic:
Communicating Regional Issues in a New Media World: More than one report has noted the demise of newspapers as the principle means by which citizens learn about their region and its opportunities and challenges. In their place, many organizations are now making creative and effective use of new communications technologies to reach constituents. This session will be filled with practical insights into putting the new communication tools to work.
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