Polinaut: April 7, 2006 Archive

Little news...

Posted at 11:47 AM on April 7, 2006 by Bob Collins (1 Comments)

I probably won't be posting much today because (a) I'm taking another vacation day (2) it's Friday, a day of rest in politics and (3) the Cleveland Indians home opener starts at 2 p.m. against the Twins (I'm a huge Tribe fan, sorry). I've got a couple more 5th District congressional candidate pages to set up and will probably do that during the game, especially if Paul Byrd turns out not to be the second coming of Kevin Millwood. (By the way, check out the Bleacher Bums).

However, one thing to pass along, two of the true geniuses behind MPR's online efforts, Matt Thueson and Andy Beger, are setting up an RSS feed of Votetracker. I think it might be available by the end of the day.

There are plenty of other political-type feeds available from MPR here.

Another in the "little news category," former GOP Party spokesman Michael Broadkorb has started an audio version of his blog. That's cool, and he mentions something about posting video next week, thus violating the first rule of "radio" (never let 'em see your face).

Minnesota Stories has been doing video for some time, but I see they've now posted a produced piece on Becky Lourey.

Shoot, is that where blogging is going? Video? I have to learn video? I spent a few weeks in television once at WCVB in Boston. I could never master the whole "write to the pictures" mantra. Plus I hated getting yelled at by people with makeup and pefect hair.

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Votetracker RSS

Posted at 1:21 PM on April 7, 2006 by Bob Collins

Here's the RSS link.

Dueling candidates

Posted at 5:03 PM on April 7, 2006 by Bob Collins

Tom Scheck has just posted a story on Jim Knoblach vs. Phil Krinkie, special Legislature edition.

There's always a bit of politics in every policy debate at the Legislature. Lawmakers often try to force their colleagues to take a bad vote, while working to make themselves look good with their constituents. Republican Reps. Phil Krinkie and Jim Knoblach are using that tactic more aggressively at the Capitol, because they're running against each other for the same Congressional seat in the 6th District. Some political observers say they're trying to "out-conservatize" each other.