Catching up on E-Mail
ArchPundit
Ever wonder why I’m so slow getting back to you on e-mail? Because I don’t take enough time to get through it. Today is one of those clear out the inbox days so more later.
Blog
Correction and Open Thread
Because I was reading too many reports, I screwed up the McSweeney post here
McSweeney raised $305,000 straight up and then contributed $37,000 of his own cash. My mistake and my apologies. And thanks to the person who pointed out my stupid mistake. That person was nice enough to not point out I also misspelled McSweeney’s name in that post. I’ve been doing a lot of that recently.
I’ll finish up the FEC reports and do some analysis at some point on Monday–though it’s going to be a busy day.
Advertising Rates Increased
Okay, I was convinced to raise my rates a bit. When looking at common rates on other blogs and traffic ratings, my rates were about half of what similar sites were getting so I’ve increased the rates. We’ll see how it affects ad sales, but I expect it won’t change much.
tech problems
Okay, the site is coming and going so if you can’t post to comments and have something really important to say, send me a note at archpundit@yahoo.com.
I’m probably going to rebuild the entire site in a few so the site might be erratic tonight.
Buy Democracy Bonds
The new Democratic National Committee web site is up and running and while there are some kinks to work out, it’s designed to increase interactivity. There’s a midwest blog I’ll link to soon.
They’ve renamed the blog from Kickin’ Ass which I believe is a mistake, but hey.
Finally, they are advertising a new program to your right for individuals to buy Democracy Bonds which are monthly contributions to the Party. I highly recommend them so take a look.
There’s also an ad for the Downing Street Memo which I haven’t covered, but the good folks at DFA are.
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Blogging Victories
Bumped to ensure it gets the attention it should. Will be on top through 4-19.
While I’m pretty reluctant to join in blogger triumphalism, I have it on good word that the City of Chicago’s decision to pull back from selecting Inkavote as the voting system was derailed by comments spurred from blogs! Credit should go to Deadly Earnest who doesn’t post often, but was the guy pushing the issue. Inkavote is complicated and simply doesn’t work well. It makes no sense to go to it from punch cards.
That the City pulled back is a good sign. It’s apparently looking at electronic machines or optical scan from what I hear. The State of Illinois is reducing the amount for machines so optical scan is looking especially attractive on cost, though it is problematic when you have so many judges on a ballot as those in the City do.
For those that want to continue to influence the Board, here’s the e-mail.
For those feeling really wonky–go here for the RFP responses and questions and answers.
But most of all–good job out there!
Remember to encourage a system that produces a reliable paper trail above all else. You avoided a trainwreck.
New Links
I did some updating on the blog roll so take a look. More to come–I’ll announce the updates when finished.
Ouch–Cattle Call Comment Period
Okay, after installing a new audio system in the new car, I came down with some sort of flu like thing that kept me out yesterday. How out have I been? I didn’t know George Kennan had died. More on that later.
But most important to those who read the blog–Consider this a Cattle Call for the GOP Governor’s nomination to be posted later today. This was supposed to be done yesterday, but I was unable to post it. We are one year out from the election–so drop you comments.
New Link Inbound
Unfortunately I can’t get Springfield radio and they don’t seem to stream–what’s the show like?