Update: Okay, back in business. Oof, there is no joy at e.politics today — I just attempted to upgrade an innocent plugin, and BOOM! The site disappears. I’ve tracked down enough of the problem to restore the interior pages, but while...
Okay, I’ll admit it — I’ve opened a lot of constituent mail in my time. My time in the Texas Legislature, that is: in 1991, as a wet-behind-the-ears 22-year-old (emotional age: closing in on 16), I started work for The Honorable...
Very annoying result of a WordPress upgrade today — all of the Categories on the site got squirreled-up in the database upgrade process. Not sure yet whether I’ll try to restore the (overly long and unwieldy) existing list or take the...
Hey John, how’s things? Crazy year, eh? Sorry about last week — you must have been dying inside as the press fawned all over that pipsqueak Barack Obama on his overseas jaunt. Reporters are YOUR base, after all, and what’s worse is...
Cross-posted on techPresident Here’s a clever idea — install a web browser toolbar sponsored by the Republican National Committee and you can raise money for the RNC “through normal online activities such as searching and shopping...
Check out this smart little critter from Rock The Vote and Credo Mobile — it’s a customizable voter registration widget. When people click on the image below (which you can change to something matches your site), a DHTML window pops up...
Finally! After a few weeks of hair-pulling and the banging of heads on desks, the new TRCP.org is launched. We’re still adding some content, details and features, but the basic structure’s in place, and e.politics can finally break the...
Hey kids, it may look like we’ve been on vacation the past few days, but in reality it’s been non-stop action down here in the e.politics bunker. A client site is due tomorrow, and the process of getting that sucker built and running has...
Several conversations over the past few days have kept coming back to the same point: in the online world, things that seem cheap often aren’t, and things that seem expensive may actually be the cheaper alternative. For instance, Eric Rardin...
We’re fixin’ to find out — as of this weekend, e.politics has entered the video world (or, at least we will have as soon as the camera arrives). I’m starting with a little-bitty Mino, Flip Video’s new, even-smaller...