San Francisco Chronicle writes about a city councilor blogging using a government web server. The article addresses some of the concerns over the use of taxpayer resources to maintain a blog. It points out that for members of Congress, there are myriad rules and regulations already in place, but for local officials the guidelines tend to be murky or missing. (Thanks to infOpinions for highlighting this article.)
I was stunned today when my wife handed me a letter from the US Department of Transportation. It was letting us know about the “National Household Travel Survey” that is being conducted. Apparently, we can expect to receive a phone call about this in the near future, and they would like us to participate. It…
PaidContent reports that news parody site The Onion has dropped its premium pay service.
The two regular readers of this blog may wonder where I’ve been the past month since I managed only one post in December. Long story short, I was buried with tasks both at work and at home. For some nutty reason, I decided to move my house and my office the week between Christmas and…
Florida Trend carries a lengthy profile of Jimmy Wales, the man behind perhaps the most successful consumer generated media site, Wikipedia. he website is among the 100 mostvisited on the internet, according to the web-traffic analysis firm Alexa. The firm reports that Wikipedia is the 58th-mostvisited site globally, compared to a 69th-place ranking for About.com,…
The Washington Post has started a blog dedicated to the campaign to confirm Judge Roberts to the Supreme Court to replace Sandra Day O’Connor.
Chip raises the question of whether we should even continue to have vice presidential debates, given their track record.