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Thanks to Prairie State 2.0, it has come to my attention that Progress Illinois took the Open Left talking points that I debunked earlier today and ran it as fact without doing some checking of their own.
Let’s be clear. This is a “movement” that originated at the highest level of powers in Washington. It’s a movement that, if successful, would benefit large oil companies and their rich executives far more than the average American consumer. It’s a movement with protests populated by paid staffers from industry-funded organizations. In short, there is nothing “grassroots” about it.
I find it fascinating that the left is stumbling over themselves thinking this is a beltway movement, when in fact it’s much, MUCH bigger than that.
Anyway, as one of the two #dontgo founders… I felt it my duty to respond to this false accusation.
Please also note that Progress Illinois is funded by SEIU Illinois State Council.
Below is my response. Continue Reading
Chicago to Washington DC, back to Chicago, then to Nashville, back to Chicago, then off to Lansing Michigan.
This how my itinerary reads from February 6th through February17th.
I’m only 28 years old, but this kind of roaming around isn’t as easy as it was back when I was circling the globe. I remember flying from Auckland New Zealand to Fiji, then to Seoul Korea with a final destination of Reno, NV (stopping in San Francisco), all within 55 hours.
Now I travel for a week straight and I feel like I’m coming down off of a two month caffeine binge.
It sucks when you start feeling old…
Well… here it is! The very first original post here at Blogivists.com.
Sure, I might be posting somewhat prematurely considering the fact that while posting this our site is locked down and in “maintenance mode”. That being said, this blog can be found and seen so I figured why the heck not?
In this post I’ll talk about two things. First, I’ll plug this blog and explain what it’s all about. Second, I’ll talk a bit about what Blogivists.com is.
Eric Odom @ Blogivists.com
As if I don’t do enough blogging already!!!
I’ve decided to launch this blog as a sort of “developers” blog for Blogivists.com. In this blog I’ll write about some of the technical aspects of the community, as well as random updates that have to do with the back end of the system.
We have a LOT of cool things planned for the site, including a ton of theme releases, plugins, discussion forums, wiki’s and more! If you’re an RSS junkie like me, please grab my feed and stay tuned for updates.
If RSS is not your cup of tea, feel free to bookmark me and check back often.
Blogivists.com
I’m sure Mike VanWinkle and the rest of the Sam Adams Alliance crew will soon publish a much more detailed explanation of this site. But until then I’ll offer the short version.
Blogivists.com is an exciting new project being put together by Sam Adams Alliance. The project is being built around a vision to develop a web community where citizens and activists can set up free Wordpress blogs. The blogs are 100% free with no strings attached.
What do you get with a free Blogivists.com blog?
-100% FREE hosting for life
-Personalized domain (www.yourblogname.blogivists.com)
-Free Blogivists.com e-mil address
-Safe and secure blogging environment
-Like minded, limited-government seeking community
-Many themes to choose from (coming soon)
-Plugins that help make your blog more interactive
-Widgets to customize your blog
-Powerful world class Wordpress software
-The ability to embed videos and images
-LOT’S MORE!!!
I’ve built several communities like this in the past, but this one looks to be the most exciting. I’m honored to be a part of the Blogivists team and I look forward to the things to come.
If you ever have basic technical questions or would like to suggest a feature for the site, please comment here on my blog or drop me an e-mail.
Blog Hard,
-Eric Odom
eric@blogivists.com
If you haven’t heard about the latest customer service meltdown over at DreamHost, you’ll want to click on over and read the full explanation.
Basically, Dreamhost “accidentally” billed most, if not all of its customers for an entire year. And in many cases, clients were billed twice a month through December of 2008.
We had a teensy eensy weensy little billing error last night… my first clue something was up when I saw this morning’s daily billing report (so far): $7,500,000.
It turns out due to my excessively fat fingers, nearly every one of our customers has been seriously over-billed in the last 12 hours.
As you can imagine, thousands of customers are pretty pissed off about the error, and they’re bailing out left and right.
Dreamhost has been known for two Continue Reading
Mozilla Firefox is bringing out viral weapons in an attempt to expand its assault on the dying Internet Explorer.
The latest weapon is a video that is shot along the idea of “we are the world”, bringing internet hot shots such as Ask a Ninja and Tay Zonday (Remember Chocolate Rain?), among many others in for the production.
I think it’s *possible* that Microsoft could lob a lawsuit into the courts over the fake statistics, unless somehow it’s spun as a parody of sorts. Which, is what it appears to be.
But unlike others, I think a lawsuit will bring HUGE attention to Firefox and it will just continue to grow.
By the way… I pulled together stats for ALL of the websites I’m involved in, which represents more than 140,000 unique visits per month, and we’re showing 40.9% use Firefox.
It’s amazing that 12 years have passed since World of Windows 1995. It’s also hard to believe that I was 16 years old when the OS went live. Back then Windows 95 was considered the future.
Just for weekend kicks, I managed to dig up some old pics. The first one is the graphic created by Microsoft to promote its World of Windows 1995 event. I haven’t been able to find any solid details of the event, but as I understand it, Microsoft put together a large scale “world fair” style gig to launch Windows 95.
It’s interesting that Microsoft would spend Continue Reading
Am I just seeing things, or is Shoemoney.com (as of 7:02 PM Central on December 15) completely out of wack?
Ever come across something of interest that you feel is worth blogging, but have to ask “do I really want to go log in and get this posted up?”
I certainly have. In fact, it happened today. I came across a post about Matt Cutts and his comments on subdomains vs. subdirectories that I knew would be a great post over at Search Engine Tattler, but at the time didn’t want to jump in to my admin panel and write the post.
It was at this point that I remembered a Firefox addon I used to use, but for some reason stopped using when I switched from Windows to Linux Ubuntu. The plugin is called ScribeFire, and it’s a MUST have for those of us who post across a plethora of blogs.
The plugin creates an icon in the lower right side of your Firefox browser. When you lick on the icon, it opens up a “post window” where you can post to any blog you maintain. Once you create an account and give Scribefire your login details, the script pulls all of your blog data into the Firefox window. You have your pages, your recent posts, your categories, etc.
You can also add tags, and the editor allows for easy access to basic functions such as links, bold, image, etc.
When you hit publish the script automatically uploads everything to your blog. Basically, you can blog from any webpage you visit!
I haven’t tried ScribeFire with blogger, typepad, or wordpress.com, but it works like a charm on all of my hosted Wordpress blogs. If you need the ability to QUICKLY blog from any page you’re viewing, this is an excellent solution and it might be just what the e-doctor ordered.
