Category Archives: politicsAs the ripples spread from Chicago’s latest corruption drama, the community news site Windy Citizen is trying some innovative, fun approaches to online coverage and commentary. They did this using free online tools that anyone can use.
Here’s what one of these tools can create:
More about what Windy Citizen is doing on this front…
Earlier today on Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits I wrote about Envirovote.us, a new site that aims to show the potential environmental impact of to tonight’s Congressional elections. They show tonight’s winners in context of envl group endorsements, plus previous races for those seats.
They’re updating stats on the site as those races get called. It’s getting [...]
Say it ain’t so… The killer election site FiveThirtyEight.com runs on the megacrap program Blogger? Major D’oh! moment.
Scene of Boulder’s 2008 Naked Pumpkin Run busts, plus two nearby real (violent) crimes earlier that same day.
UPDATE NOV 4. The names of the 12 busted streakers have been published, so I’m following up on this case via local courts…
On Halloween, as I wrote earlier, I went down to Boulder, CO’s Pearl St. pedestrian mall [...]
This is from The Rick Mercer Report, a Canadian show I MUST start watching!
NOTE: This is part 2 of a multipart series. See the series intro. More to come over the next few days.
This series is a work in process. I’m counting on Contentious.com readers and others to help me sharpen this discussion so I can present it more formally for the Knight Commission to consider.
So please comment [...]
NOTE: This is part 1 of a multipart series. More to come over the next few days. See Part 2.
This series is a work in process. I’m counting on Contentious.com readers and others to help me sharpen this discussion so I can present it more formally for the Knight Commission to consider.
So please comment [...]
I subscribe to the official campaign Twitter feeds for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. (John McCain doesn’t seem to have one, as far as I can tell.) Just a short while ago I saw this tweet come through from Hillary Clinton:
…Nothing so far in response from Obama. I’ll keep watching. But Hillary definitely has scored [...]
Everyone’s gaga over the recent TV debate among the Democratic presidential candidates featuring video questions submitted via YouTube. Yes, that was very intriguing and refreshing. I think this approach has ample potential.
In fact, it’s too damn cool to leave it to presidential elections alone.
Personally, I’d love to see this applied at the state and local [...]
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