While SB 6588 (pdf warning is aimed at Mason County commissioner/State Senator Tim Sheldon, it would also force Joe Hyer to choose to be a city council member or county treasurer. Hyer, who sits on the Olympia city council, is also running for county treasurer. He also might be applying to temporarily fill the position…
Month: January 2010
New Timberland non-fiction tweeting and twitter level tech support
If you follow my twitter feed, you noticed earlier this week that I’ve been featuring a book a day from Timberland’s recent non-fiction RSS feed. This is in a way to try to publicize that Timberland gets a lot of new books, and indirectly publicize the feed, but to also try to do something innovative…
One county commissioner, 10 city council-members, three school board members (and some more) come out for Stew Henderson
The list is long and deep and it looks like local Dems are lining up behind Stew Henderson for the 22nd LD: The full list of endorsements announced today include:• Karen Valenzuela, Thurston County Commissioner• Doug Mah, Olympia Mayor• Karen Rogers, Olympia City Council• Joe Hyer, Mayor pro tem, Olympia City Council• Cynthia Pratt, Lacey…
How a newspaper works
It may seem as simple as interesting text and sells ads around it to support you writing interesting things, but Alec Clayton’s post on how he became a newspaper man shows there’s something deeper and something harder about it. His description of Everything for Everybody, which was less a newspaper and more a representation of…
Olyforum, where did it die?
This hilarious ONN report reminded me of a dead local online civilisation, the once vaunted (by me) Olyforums: So, what happened to Olyforums? The folks that I understand to have been the main moderators over there, S6, Christie, Rummy, and Just Plain Onry (I can spell that one out) haven’t signed on to their forums…