Archive for the ‘in house’ Category

Democrats in Rural Texas

Posted by Katherine | Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Karl-Thomas Musselman from The Burnt Orange Report, a Democratic group blog based in Austin, TX, has this to say about last night's debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama: I have occasionally taken the liberty of talking about my hometown of Fredericksburg in Gillespie County out west of Austin in the ...

First Flickr Photo

Posted by Katherine | Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

In some sidebar avoidance a few days ago, we bookmarked our first Flickr photo: [Steve Rhodes / Flickr] Steve Rhodes' Flickr profile says he's a blogger who covers media, culture, and politics; it wasn't until I checked his profile just now at Tiger Beat that I realized he's a journalist. We'll be ...

The Sidebar

Posted by Katherine | Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

The sidebar is, by definition, not supposed to be the focus, right? Unfortunately we've been stubbornly preoccupied by ours for the last few days because it's proving difficult to build. We've got a long wiki "wishlist" going for the site, but we're hung up on "find YouTube 'favorites' widget for ...

Like to Be a Co-Curator?

Posted by Katherine | Thursday, February 14th, 2008

You know you would. If you're a YouTube junkie, if you're obsessed with your local community blogs, if you're always plugged into a podcast, then we want to know you. We're looking for people all over the country and outside the US to wade into Web 2.0 and help us ...

Hello My Name Is

Posted by Katherine | Thursday, February 14th, 2008

A bunch of PRXers are pitching in to get BallotVox off the ground. Jake Shapiro is the mastermind -- he dreamed up the BallotVox idea and now, in addition to running PRX, prods me daily to sign up for the latest social media site that he's discovered on some tech ...

Beginnings

Posted by Katherine | Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Welcome to BallotVox! We're a campaign 08 project based at PRX -- we'll be "curating" smart local views on the 2008 election from the blogosphere and other social-media networks. Tired of punditry? Here's where you'll see, read, and listen to the real public conversation about issues and candidates that's streaming ...