For the candidates that are carrying a sort of isthmus vote around with them this year (Amy Tousley on the planning commission, Jeff Kingsbury and Joan Machlis), its probably important to address the vote in a way that puts them past it. Machlis makes a good effort in her piece this morning on growth: I…
Month: July 2009
Comment to usopencup.com (citizen media and the USOC)
My thoughts to here: I would like the new website to include opportunities for fans around the country to be able to submit their own stories, game coverage, pictures and movies. This could include a “diary” system that is available through Drupal, Scoop, or a similar content management system. Also, services like Flickr and Youtube…
Pat Beehler makes the debate for the organization that already spent $1,347.50 on him
Pat Beehler couldn’t show up for the debate hosted by the non-partisan organization. But, heck, the Olympia Master Builders are hosting a forum, hells yes Beehler’s showing up! Oddly, Karen Valenzuela didn’t show up to the forum hosted by the organization with closeclose ties to the Building Industry of Washington. In the past few weeks,…
Olyblog hickup, not Fail
From Jay Stewart, who knows a thing or two about the back-end of Olyblog (since his business hosts the online community gratis): All, DNS server failure forced a reload of software. Backup DNS zone file was out of date with old address. I thought I changed it back, but have apparently used the wrong server…
Honorable mentions of what made me love the US Open Cup
Other things I ran into after David Beckham nudged me back into soccer fandom. 1. Franklin Foer. I accidently picked up his “How soccer explains the world” weeks after Beckham signed to spend some Christmas gift card money. It helped me think of soccer in a much broader sense that I would have otherwise. 2….
Does the chairman of the Thurston County Republicans think the President is foreign born?
Or lied when his campaign supplied a copy of his birth certificate to the media?That looks like exactly what R. Scott thinks. Surprisingly, for a county organization that once prided itself with not being completely insane, they’re new leader wants to advance conspiracy theories rather than talk policy. Or is that just mainstream Republican thought…
Local government blogging issues “unresolved”
This is way better than “resolved and you better the hell not blog.” Ramsey over at the Open Local Gov’t Blog: Last month I had the pleasure of teaching two classes to city officials at the Association of Washington Cities Conference in Spokane. One hot issue raised by the city councilmembers was the use of…