To the Point

Dateline: Kunkletown, Pa. Conditions: Serene.
Tell us how you really feel about the indictment of your pal, Mr. Traficant. Heh.

By the way, found that on Ed Zuckerman’s new EditorsWeb site, which gathers press releases from federal government agencies and Congressional offices. It’s in testing now, but should be officially launched soon. I just hope the poor [...]

Presidential Sites

George W.’s redesign looks pretty darn good, if a bit busy. Seems like the campaign took some aspects of the NRCC site and fleshed it out with some multimedia stuff. And yes, while I’m still thankful for the ability to search the list of W’s contributors, his campaign knows it could have been done better [...]

White House and Hazardous Waste

Among the things you can do on the redesigned White House web site is “check to see which hazardous wastes are in your neighborhood.” I always did suspect the folks down the street of harboring some toxic stuff. Give the administration a little credit for trying to position the WH site as an entry point [...]

Virus on NICAR-L!

The first message recipients of the NICAR-L list got yesterday contained the VBS Stages virus. People freaked. There were the usual recriminations against the sender, Mark Houser. One guy said he should be thrown off the list. Get real, folks.

The fact is that nearly all of us have done this either to our friends or [...]

Federal Portals

A recent Economist survey of “eGovernment” suggests that, among other things, governments should develop a central portal something along the lines of Singapore’s site. The U.S. will start spending money in the hopes of getting there. Let’s hope they keep a second suggestion of Matthew Symonds in mind:
“Prime ministers and presidents do not need to [...]