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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Comments (1)

"(2) it's Friday, a day of rest in politics"

You're kidding, right? I mean, I'm with you 100% on skipping out on a day squelching through the mud of politics looking for news, but c'mon. If President Bush decided to get a gender-reassignment, you know it would be announced on Friday afternoon. If the economy is discovered to be going down the tubes, the press conference will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Friday after the news stations have also been fed film footage of a firefighter rescuing kittens from a tree.

Yes, Friday is the nadir of the weekly news cycle... but that's when the goverment sweeps its bad news under the carpet...

Hope you enjoy your day off!

Posted by Albatross | April 7, 2006 3:09 PM

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