Coleman wins Des Moines City Council primary
Here are the results of Tuesday’s City Council primary election:
Chris Coleman (incumbent): 67.4 %
Josh Daines: 23.1%
Seth Galinsky: 8.5%
Write-In: 1%
The Polk County election office website showed that 3,566 people voted.
Update:
While Chris Coleman easily won two thirds of the votes cast in yesterday’s city council primary election, I have to wonder if the primary wasn’t a waste [...]
Has blogging peaked?
Earlier this year, there were rumblings that “blogging had peaked” as an activity because a blog-measuring service called Technorati had claimed that the number of daily posts to blogs worldwide seemed to be declining. I wrote at that time, and I still believe, that the number of posts per day has very little to do with [...]
Universities deny Regents’ request to see contract for student credit card agreement
Can you imagine any corporation saying to its board of directors, “Yes we’ve entered into a private agreement with a company that uses our customers’ private identifying data and stands to be profitable for our business, but no you may not see a copy of the contract we have with that company” ??? That’s just [...]
Fighting spam on a blog
You wouldn’t think one would have to worry about spam on a blog. After all, the blogger is the one controlling the content. Well that’s certainly true as far as the individual posts, but when it comes to comments it’s kind of an ongoing battle. Yes, there are spammers out there who target the comment [...]
Five Questions With… Andy Drish
Five Questions With… is a series on DMweblife highlighting Des Moines area bloggers and their blogs! This edition features Andy Drish, a Drake University student who seems to have the whole “networking leads to visibility and success in business” thing down pat! Andy’s blog is called Connecting In College, and he’s one of the most [...]
WalkScore: how walk-friendly is your neighborhood?
Found an interesting web tool today called WalkScore, where you can determine how walk-friendly any address is. I typed in my home address and got a walk-friendly score of just 34 out of 100. That means my neighborhood’s unfriendly to walkers because a variety of amenities are, according to the algorithm, too far away.
On one hand, [...]
I met the Central Iowa Bloggers!
I had an absolutely fantastic meeting this morning - I finally got to attend a gathering of the Central Iowa Bloggers group! (I have a standing conflict with their normal meeting time on “first Fridays,” but this week my conflicting appointment was moved.)
What a great bunch of folks! I wish I had been able to [...]
Five Questions With… returns on Monday!
My semi-regular feature, Five Questions With…, returns on Monday! If you’re a Des Moines-area blogger and would like to be considered for a future edition, please drop me an email with your name and blog link.
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Decision 2008: Winnowing the field of candidates - or, who I WON’T be voting for
The start of 4th Quarter 2007 marks the beginning of the final countdown to the Iowa Caucuses. Although I have been trying to cultivate a sort of ‘bemused detachment’ from presidential politics for the past several months, it’s time to begin thinking about who I might support.The only thing I know for certain right now [...]
Caucus Iowa interactive exhibit to open at the State Historical Museum October 5
Updated: Exhibit photos on Webshots - this thing is COOL!
The State Historical Museum will put Iowa’s unique brand of citizen-democracy on display beginning October 5 when it opens “Caucus Iowa,” a new 10,000-square-foot exhibit that explores the history of the Iowa caucuses. (CaucusIowa Exhibit website)
Open through January 2009, the exhibit offers museum visitors a first-hand [...]
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