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Archive for March, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 26th
Mar 26th
These are my links for March 26th:
- My Blog – my springnet stumbleupon blog
- TipLine – Gates’ Computer Tips – Each day during the school year I try to send out a computer tip or two. It’s usually a website, but sometimes it’s a news item or an Excel tip, etc. You can also find the archive of my tips going back to May of 2005. Please leave a comment to let me know
- WP Themes at ElegantDirectory.com – WP themes and related resources. – A new Word Press theme has been launched recently, made free by Elegant Directory & AllinfoDir Web Directory. Theme has been called as Trendy; highlighting property of this theme is its decent and elegant look with 3 columns view and with integrated Adsen
- 45+ Must See WordPress themes – This is the second article in the four-part series, “Powerful guide to master Your WordPress”. We are taking a look at some quality outstanding Free and premium WordPress themes, which have been released over the last few months.
- Follow Twitter Conversations – Quotably.com – twitter search engine
- Viddler.com – Your videos – Currently Viewing “Waking up in Amsterdam – Todd L Gilbert” – Todd L Gilbert is an American expat and blogger living in Amsterdam and seems to be having a blast living there. He’s agitproper on twitter and he’s big on the hyves.net which he adopted early on (big in Amsterdam and Peru).
- aNobii – community around books you’re reading. clever and well done
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 25th
Mar 25th
These are my links for March 25th:
- SourceForge.net: Jahshaka – Jahshaka is a video and film compositing, editing and special fx system that uses OpenGL & OpenML hardware rendering to give operators real time interactivity. The system is cross platform, and also includes full CG, paint and image processing modules.
- TwitPic – Share photos on twitter – share your photos on twitter with twitpic
- Who Are The Austin 80? – The situation in Burma has been getting out of control. People are dying as they fight for peace. Some of the monks have been beaten, arrested, and killed.
- Digital Craig – First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drankwhile they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue-cheesedressing, and tuna from a can. They didn?t get tested for Diabetes and there are no Ultrasound photos of us in the womb.
- Web Links – Metacafe – Studio – If you are familiar with names like Adobe, Alias, Apple, Avid, Discreet, Eyeon, Media100, Newtek, Pinnacle, Sony and Quantel, you will be surprised to find out that there is an open source video editing and post-production program that is freely available
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 24th
Mar 24th
These are my links for March 24th:
- Christine – Mashups for social change? Apparently, you’re not the only one that thinks this is a good idea. Last week, 122 project ideas were submitted to the annual NetSquared Mashup Challenge. http://twitter.com/christine
- Fluid – Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard – Use Fluid to run YouTube, GTalk, Flickr, Basecamp, Delicious, .Mac webmail, or any other WebApp as a separate Mac desktop application.
- Dimdim: Free Live Meeting, Web Conference, Net Meeting, Online Meetings, Online Training, Desktop Sharing, Web Meeting, Free Web conferencing, eLearning, Presentation Software, Web x collaboration, Collaboration software – Dimdim is the world´s first free web meeting service based on the open source platform. Dimdim is a browser-based web 2.0 service that allows anybody to share their desktop, show slides, as well as talk, listen, chat, and broadcast via webcam. Dimdim´s
- AskMen.com – Hottest women in tech – 10. Wendy Cheng 9. Blair Butler 8. Kristen Holt 7. Amanda Congdon 6. Veronica Belmont 5. Cali Lewis 4. Olivia Munn 3. Jessica Chobot 2. Morgan Webb 1. Amber MacArthur
- Welcome to GeekyMomma’s Blog: I’d Like To Thank My Producers, Mom & Dad! – In a follow-up post, I encouraged others outside our Twitter edtech network to join and today, Paul Terry Walhus (twitter @springnet) contacted me because he not only wanted to duplicate the concept for his SXSW network but he wanted to interview me (ME!,
- Tasty Blog Snack – Justine Ezarik’s blog. submitted on springnet’s bookmarks on del.icio.us on her birthday. March 23, 2008 she turned 24.
- gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards” – When I was last in San Francisco a few weeks ago, my good friend, Shel Israel interviewed me, as part of his new FastCompany.com gig. We talked about “Social Objects”, with a heavy emphasis on “Social Markers”.
- Global Neighbourhoods – People everywhere, equipped with cameras and access are posting what they see, for a few friends or the entire world. It is the reporting of everday people and places and incidents that will never be ready for prime time, but are useful and interesting to
- Free Video Chat and Video Conferencing from ooVoo – ooVoo is the next evolution in online communication ? a remarkably easy way to have a face-to-face video chat with friends, family or colleagues, no matter where they are in the world.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 23rd
Mar 23rd
These are my links for March 23rd:
- SEO for your Wordpress Blog – This plugin is streamlined for some best practices for Wordpress SEO. While it gives you many options the defaults reflect the settings I recommend using.
- Twitter / zefrank – organizing colorwars on twitter
- Tabs Open Relative :: Firefox Add-ons – open tab next to current tab like in Internet Explorer
- Waking up in Amsterdam! – Friday, March 21st is Good Friday for Christians, but it?s also a sacred date for many other religions. People are celebrating Good Friday, Purim, Narouz, Eid Milad an Nabi, Small Holi, and Magha Puja. That doesn?t happen often.
- SheGeeks – SheGeeks is a social network and social media discussion blog. Here, you can find the latest news on new social networks and media tools, technology, twitter, friendfeed, rssmeme, linkriver, web applications, web services and more.
- Blog : LOL: The Life of Leo – To begin with we?re going to stream everything we do at TWiT, including the production of all our shows, live and interactive. To that end we?re adding considerable bandwidth: a T1 line and a cable modem to our existing DSL connectivity. We?ll Skype
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 21st through March 22nd
Mar 22nd
These are my links for March 21st through March 22nd:
- Colorwar 2008 – boredom has set in after sxsw 2008
- Kiki?s Korner – Home for my rants, raves and general sharing of ‘insytes’. Some of you will enjoy this gathering of text – others will wonder how I tricked them into giving me a Blogger’s license…
- SXSWhere 2008 – BricaBox – where the sxsw parties are on a google map
- ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon — a blog by Tara Hunt – This 2.5 minute video is a result of feedback from our fans. We?ve received a number of requests from people who want their friends to use the micro-blogging service Twitter, but can?t seem to explain it well. We hope this video helps.
- Home > Tweeterboard : Conversation Analytics for Twitter – Conversation analytics, links and feeds from Twitter. filters out the sxsw related twitter feeds or “tweets”
- Item : How to Ramp Up (Or Filter Out) the SXSW Twitter Experience – First, how can new users tune in to the hottest conversations on Twitter quickly? Second, how can all the people not participating in the week long event still enjoy their beloved Twitter if it’s overrun with SXSW references?
- mDialog – Easy Hi-Res video sharing for iPhone, iPod, AppleTV, Mac and PC. – fast delivery of Hi-Res Video… has cc chapman interview of Robert Scoble at sxsw 2008
- Entrepreneur.com – Blog Network – Creating a Community – Once you?ve been, it?s almost as if you are part of a tribe. You are let in on secrets that not everyone knows about. Events that are off the grid suddenly open their doors to you. The events happening that are not listed on the official schedule have
- Socialthing! – Socialthing! is in private beta at the moment, but you can always request an invite by signing up for our mailing list!
- GoYoDeo! – GoYoDeo is a free video player that allows anyone to publish their personal video content ON TOP of their blogs, social networks and websites.
- Print I Think You’re Fat – Radical Honesty. The movement was founded by a sixty-six-year-old Virginia-based psychotherapist named Brad Blanton. He says everybody would be happier if we just stopped lying. Tell the truth, all the time. This would be radical enough — a world without
- Technology News – BusinessWeek – BusinessWeek’s tech news, Sarah Lacy has a column here.
- PR 2.0 – Sarah Lacy on Sarah Lacy and the SXSW Mark Zuckerberg Keynote
- Darren Hoyt Dot Com » Blog – Premium Themes Should Advance the Wordpress Community
- Deep Blue Wordpress Theme Released – elegant theme created by Nathan Rice. Easy adsense integration
- Theres a Blog in my Soup! ? All about blogs, technical toys, video games, social media, and making money online. – feed your blog 39 ways
- TubeMogul.com – Online Video Distribution and Analytics – TubeMogul is a free service that provides a single point for deploying uploads to the top video sharing sites, and powerful analytics on who, what, and how videos are being viewed.
- Hak5.org – Darren Kitchen – Hak.5 is a video podcast for the hacker, modder and do-it-yourselfer. Hosted by Darren Kitchen and Wess Tobler on the 5th of each month, the show is a hybrid of technology and geek humor.
Austincast Hope Show (Sherry) sandwich
Mar 21st
This is the interview within an interview… inside the interview I did with ijustine is this interview done by Sherry Smith of the Hope Show. A veritable AustinCast – Hope Show – Austincast sandwich.
sxsw video Zadi Diaz on drums at Cedar Street Courtyard
Mar 21st
One of the brightest stars in tech podcasting, Zadi Diaz plays drums in a rock band competition at SXSW at the Cedar Street Courtyard on 4th Street in Austin, Texas.She was on the panel at SXSW called “Quit your day job and vblog” Watch Zadi Diaz play drums at Cedar Street Courtyard in Austin here. Speakers on Zadi’s SXSW panel: Lindsay Campbell (wallstrip.com and http://moblogic.tv), Zadi Diaz (epicfu.com), Lisa Donovan (youtube.com/lisanova), Bre Pettis (imakethings.com), Tim Shey (nextnewnetworks.com)
pingbacks austincast.com/blog bastropbuilder.com/blog compuslides.com/blog gameslides.com/blog magickpapers.com/blog shopslides.com/blog touroftexas.com/blog spring.net/blog socobuzz.com/blog web2.0slides.com/blog webgirlvillage.com/blog wholetech.com/blog wmeyers.com/blog
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 20th
Mar 20th
These are my links for March 20th:
- Mahalo Daily – Mahalo-Hahai – Mahalo Daily wiki with all of Veronica Belmont’s episodes in one place
- TerminArtors – Homepage – purports to be the largest online fine arts gallery with almost 30,000 paintings
- Social Media – they’ve got all the social media covered, Scoble, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, chrisbrogan.com, pr2.0, tantek, emily chang, horsepigcow and more
- Dropbox – Home – Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy. – Effortless sync Changes to your files are instantly synced across your computers.
- Alltop, all the top stories – These folks have everything covered. All the news. All the time. Blows away news.google.com said http://twitter.com/peterbrooke
- Bitstrips: How to Rawk SXSW – Veronica Belmonts panel at sxsw via bitstrips
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 18th through March 19th
Mar 19th
These are my links for March 18th through March 19th:
- Ping.fm | Home – Ping.fm is a simple service that cuts out the middle man when it comes to posting to your social services such as Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr and Pownce with more being added soon.
- Bitstrips: ‘austincast has sxsw videos’ – my first bitstrip about sxsw videos I’m working on
- SXSW 2008 | IFC.com: film and music reviews, interviews, podcasts and coverage – The real deal at SXSW from Jim Shearer. For example – who had the best Bjorn Borg imitation? And the worst pizza? Independent Film Channel live coverage of SXSW
- Austin | groups.drupal.org – Welcome to the Austin Drupal Users Group! Our goal is to help each other, make new friends, pass along referrals, and learn new and interesting things about Drupal that will ensure our web sites are what we want them to be. Be sure to introduce yourself t
- NoodleScar.com – Bonny – or is it Bonnie – Pierzina played drums in the rock band performance with Veronica Belmont, Casey Mckinnon, and Leah Culver at Cedar Street Courtyard on 4th street, Austin, TX. Video at http://austincast.com/blog/
- Utterz – Get Started – With Utterz, you can instantly share your news by creating a multi-media posting in voice, video, picture and text, right from your mobile phone, or online. It’s fast and simple, free, and works with every phone, on every carrier.
- The Omni Group – OmniFocus – OmniFocus, from the creator?s of OmniOutliner and built with the input of leading GTD advocates. And love bloomed anew! Literally it does everything perfectly for me. I can view tasks by project or context. It has a clear processing mechanism. Tasks can
- Rudy Jahchan – Casey Mckinnon’s show producer and videographer writer, directory, coder, hack and a “walking media production house” shows include Galacticast, a Comicbook Orange, and Kitkast
- next new networks: our networks – barely political, viropop, fast lane, epic-fu with Zadi Diaz, and ultra kawaii
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 13th through March 17th
Mar 17th
These are my links for March 13th through March 17th:
- PaidbyPixels.com – get paid advertising on a pixel map on your site
- SXSW on the ground – mobile experiment with pulver.tv … mobile personal broadcasting . . . you choose the questions and you pick the people to talk to
- FastCompany.TV – Scoble’s new venture after podtech… great time at sxsw in Austin w Scoble and friends at Salt Lick BBQ
- Twitter / Scobleizer – I am interviewing Amazon’s Werner Vogels on Thursday at under the radar conference. Scoble minute by minute on twitter
- DIY, lifehack, wondercon ? The gals play with fire! ? popSiren ? Revision3 – ReadyMade’s Jen Trolio shows Jessica how to make comic book stationary from scratch! Sarah gets organized online and Dr. Kiki teaches you how to make fire with sound waves. Neha Tiwari investigates what turned nerd into the cool kid at WonderCon and Heath
- Office Live Workspace vs Google Docs: Feature-by-Feature Comparison – ReadWriteWeb – Office Live Workspace vs Google Docs: Feature-by-Feature Comparison
- Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English – twitter for dumies
- Spence – This is the video diary and stand-up comedy show of Ewan Spence.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 11th through March 12th
Mar 12th
These are my links for March 11th through March 12th:
- YouTube – Casey Mckinnon, Veronic Belmont, Leah Culver rock sxsw – Casey Mckinnon, Veronica Belmont, Leah Culver rock sxsw
- QIK | Streaming video right from your phone – live streaming from Nokia n series phones
- SXSW Breakout App of 2008: What Will it Be? – ReadWriteWeb – SXSW extravaganza in Austin has been an application king maker for the last two years at least; Google’s Dodgeball blew up there in 2006 and Twitter went from elite-chic to massively popular there in 2007. Who’s it going to be in 2008?
- The Social – CNET News.com – Caroline McCarthy’s sxsw blog . . . see also my video of Caroline performing as a rock star at Austin’s Cedar Street Courtyard along with Leah Culver, Zadi Diaz, Veronica Belmont and Casey Mckinnon
- Expo TV | video product reviews and consumer reports from buying experts like you! – I interviewed Daphne Kwon, CEO at sxsw after her panel. 15 W 18th St, 10th floor, NY, NY 10011 dkown@expotv.com
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 7th through March 8th
Mar 8th
These are my links for March 7th through March 8th:
- QIK | Streaming video right from your phone – ijustine turned me on to this last night at sxsw interactive in ausitn… she’s been raving about it
- Our Work | Elevator Up – Recent Projects * Ascribe – Collaborative Portfolio Manager NEW * Roov NEW * Holland Area Arts Council – Secure member sign up * Holland Sentinel – Drupal Training * DBSA – Facing Us * Mast Heating & Cooling * Metro Health – D
- Radiant CMS – very basic cms with nice user interface recommded by Aaron Schaap.
- Interview with Dan ? Dan Fost – short interview
- Ensight – Jeremy Wright?s Personal Blog – personal blog
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 6th
Mar 6th
These are my links for March 6th:
- A Photo A Day – is a personal project of mine to keep me motivated over the next year to shoot more and publish more. Not everything here will be new but it will all be shot by me. More of my work can be found at JPG Magazine or my SmugMug Galleries.
- WWTelescope – The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe.
- A Spoonful of Hip-Hop Helps The Guilt Go Down « Scott Robbin – Scott Robbin is a web developer, musician, photographer, bicyclist and general tinkerer. He currently lives in Chicago, Illinois where he is self-unemployed as a freelance programmer for the Internets.
- Scott Robbin – Songza.com is a side-project that I worked on with friend and Humanized co-worker, Aza Raskin. Songza lets you search for a song that’s stuck in your head, play it, and even share with your friends.
- walkah | striving towards mediocrity – drupal user blog
- www.kribaby.com – I think that there are still other opportunities for marketing companies to leverage Social Media. It isn’t just to use social media as a feedback tool – that is but one of the many marketing objectives that may cause a company to engage in a social media
- Politweets – When Twitter gets political – when twitter gets political … looks like Obama won the Texas caucuses and Hillary raised $4 mil today
- Doug March » Design, Development and Music Intelligence – With today being Super Tuesday, two days after Super Sunday and the same day as Mardi Gras we thought it would be good to make some updates to politweets.
- Tables Turned – Audibot? is an Linux-based audio device that Tables Turned distributes to radio stations and music venues. Connect it to an audio source and it automatically records, formats, and uploads MP3 recordings to any website.
- Wordpress Themes – wordpress themes
- Surf*Mind*Musings – industry is abuzz with a new Google Split test that offers a site search box underneath the first result, for a small set of navigational queries. The blogdom analysis has been rather shallow of this feature, so let me break it down for you.
- me.dm – my centralized webmedium / philip “dm” campbell. – heading to sxsw in austin,tx. Be sure to hook up to chat. I want to interview you. whoever you are.
- SCHED: SXSW 2008: springnet’s schedule – my schedule for sxsw
- SCHED: SXSW 2008: melkirk’s schedule – melkirk’s sxsw schedule
- Perfect Porridge ? Music, Minneapolis, Mutiny – Here?s Tristan Prettyman?s cover of the song ?New Soul.? You?ll probably recognize it from the Macbook Air commercial.
- Pandora Radio – Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music – plays only the music you like…. new kind of web radio station
- ELASTRA – The Infinite Database – ELASTRA is the world’s first infinitely scalable solution for running standard relational databases in an on-demand computing cloud. ELASTRA’s exclusive, high-performance S3DFS storage technologies enable a standard RDBMS to be deployed on Amazon’s Elasti
- Qipit Documents – Qipit capture it. share it. qipit. * My Docs * Let Us Know * Help * Sign Out
- Tom Conrad – And then the blogosphere picked it up. The first accounts I read sounded like ?HUGE BLOWUP AT GNOMEDEX!!!? Strange, I thought ? my experience of the event was quite different: it was a non-event for me.
- Todd Earwood – guy who likes snailmail and is on twitter
- Daily Idea – There are many schools of thought when it comes to getting rich. And our cracked staff of researchers at The Daily Idea flunked out of four of them. But they?re still qualified to survey the landscape of trust fund babies, over-paid celebs and lotto win
- Make Money Blogging – The following income streams (from a number of blogs) have helped me to earn a six figure income each year for the last three years from blogging. I?ve ranked them from highest to lowest.
- Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging – ProBlogger – Here?s a quick AdSense tip that could make you some good money. AdSense offers two rectangle ad unit sizes – 300×250 pixels and 336×280 pixels.
- Russell Wilson – Dexo Design – Interface Design, Interaction Design, and Usability – this guy has more social networks that anyone I know. Austin guy.
- Daniel Morrison – I founded Collective Idea to build intriguing software. I can usually be found working in a local coffee shop, or on my front porch.
- mezzoblue § Home – So here’s a not-so-hypothetical question I’d like to put out there: as a designer what are the saleable products one might go about creating?
- Vara Software : ScreenFlow – excellent screencasting software for Mac that combines video and screen capture
- Apple Mail 3.0 (Leopard) – how to set up gmail imap on mac leopard mail
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 5th
Mar 5th
These are my links for March 5th:
- Veronica Belmont – daily blog of the mahalo daily rock star
- Overheard, rocking out at SXSW – Veronica Belmont – If you missed my Rock Band skills at the Jonathan Coulton show, fear not! Casey McKinnon has assembled a super group of female talent to rock SXSW this year! Here are the details: Vocals – Casey McKinnon Bass – Leah Culver Drums – Bonny Pierzina Guitar -
- Chris Brogan – MyBlogLog – What percentage of your day is email, phone, and msgng? SXSW: what are you most looking forward to doing there? Who are you hoping to see?
- chrisbrogan’s bookmarks on del.icio.us – remarkably relevant bookmarks on business, software, art, design, learning, linux, web 2.0, gtd, howto, research, acme, illustration, entrepreneur, podcasting, dly, bsmin, podcast, graphics, bizinbox, blogs, wordpress, blog, mp3, photos, rss, free, etc.
- [chrisbrogan.com] – The Social Media 100 is a project by Chris Brogan dedicated to writing 100 useful blog posts in a row about the tools, techniques, and strategies behind using social media for your business, your organization, or your own personal interests.
- Voodoo Ventures – Idea Fuel Blog – ?ve got 99 friends on Facebook but I hear from Jason Calacanis more than anyone. He has turned Facebook into a marketing platform for his human-powered search engine, Mahalo. And he doesn?t pay Facebook a dime for this primo branding opportunity.
- Blueroot Studios An Experiment – Mashable has a great roundup of online calendars and calendar resources that are available right now. The usual suspects are there along with some lesser-known calendars. Of course we all know who the leader is still (at least until Yahoo releases their
- Pete Hopkins, Grogmaster – Just a quick note that the same principals I used a few weeks ago to add XFN support to Blogger?s Link List work just fine when applied to the new Blog List blogroll page element, available on Blogger in draft. I?ve just done this, so everyone in ther
- Future of Real Estate Marketing – Say what you like about their business model, Redfin?s real estate search tools are world class and only keep getting better.It?s why it was the only national real estate broker (I defined ?national? as anyone having operations that spanned both c
- Rohdesign Podcast 03 – SXSW Interactive Edition – podcast about sxsw
- SMtv: INFO – sxsw participant
- Geek Entertainment TV – It?s a hard life being most excellent at most video games, but Johnathan Wendel aka Fatal1ty doesn?t shy away from the challenge. So what does happen in a typical day of a professional video game player?
- velda.org 2.0 – one of the best contact pages I’ve seen on the web. sxsw’er
- Blog : Texas Startup Blog – Techcrunch is reporting Demand Media bought Austin-based Pluck for $75MM cash. Frankly, I am fairly surprised. I first wrote about Pluck after sitting on a panel at the McCombs School of Business (UT @ Austin)
Bastrop County Primary Election results
Mar 5th
ELECTION RESULTS
Results: March 2008 Primary
Bastrop County
SUMMARY REPORT STATISTICS
(ELECTION DAY)
RUN DATE:03/04/08 10:27 PM
VOTES PERCENT
PRECINCTS COUNTED (OF 21) . . . . . 21 100.00
REGISTERED VOTERS - TOTAL . . . . . 38,695
REGISTERED VOTERS - REPUBLICAN PARTY . 0
REGISTERED VOTERS - DEMOCRATIC PARTY . 0
BALLOTS CAST - TOTAL. . . . . . . 9,052
BALLOTS CAST - REPUBLICAN PARTY . . . 2,700 29.83
BALLOTS CAST - DEMOCRATIC PARTY . . . 6,352 70.17
VOTER TURNOUT - TOTAL . . . . . . 23.39
********** (REPUBLICAN PARTY) **********
President
VOTE FOR 1
Alan Keyes . . . . . . . . . . 14 .52
Hugh Cort . . . . . . . . . . 2 .07
Mike Huckabee . . . . . . . . . 1,021 38.13
Mitt Romney. . . . . . . . . . 26 .97
Ron Paul. . . . . . . . . . . 405 15.12
Fred Thompson . . . . . . . . . 29 1.08
Rudy Giuliani . . . . . . . . . 13 .49
Duncan Hunter . . . . . . . . . 8 .30
John McCain. . . . . . . . . . 1,132 42.27
Hoa Tran. . . . . . . . . . . 0
Uncommitted (No Comprometido). . . . 28 1.05
United States Senator
VOTE FOR 1
Larry Kilgore . . . . . . . . . 675 27.85
John Cornyn. . . . . . . . . . 1,749 72.15
US Representative Dist 10
VOTE FOR 1
Michael T. McCaul. . . . . . . . 660 100.00
US Representative Dist 25
VOTE FOR 1
George L. Morovich . . . . . . . 1,274 100.00
Railroad Commissioner
VOTE FOR 1
Michael L. Williams . . . . . . . 1,935 100.00
Chief Justice, Supreme Court
VOTE FOR 1
Wallace B. Jefferson. . . . . . . 1,904 100.00
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 7
VOTE FOR 1
Dale Wainwright . . . . . . . . 1,889 100.00
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 8
VOTE FOR 1
Phil Johnson . . . . . . . . . 1,866 100.00
Criminal Appeals Judge Place 3
VOTE FOR 1
Tom Price . . . . . . . . . . 1,857 100.00
Criminal Appeals Judge Place 4
VOTE FOR 1
Paul Womack. . . . . . . . . . 1,551 75.77
Robert Francis. . . . . . . . . 496 24.23
Criminal Appeals Judge Place 9
VOTE FOR 1
Cathy Cochran . . . . . . . . . 1,859 100.00
State Representative Dist 17
VOTE FOR 1
Tim Kleinschmidt . . . . . . . . 1,944 100.00
Chief Justice, 3rd Court of Appeals Dist
VOTE FOR 1
Ken Law . . . . . . . . . . . 1,854 100.00
District Judge, 335th Judicial District
VOTE FOR 1
Reva L. Towslee Corbett. . . . . . 1,873 100.00
District Judge, 423rd Judicial District
VOTE FOR 1
Charlotte G. Hinds . . . . . . . 1,113 47.79
Derek Van Gilder . . . . . . . . 1,216 52.21
Sheriff
VOTE FOR 1
Terry Pickering . . . . . . . . 1,639 65.48
Rosanna L. Abreo . . . . . . . . 864 34.52
County Commissioner, Precinct No. 1
VOTE FOR 1
Willie Pina. . . . . . . . . . 494 100.00
County Commissioner, Precinct No. 3
VOTE FOR 1
Don Loucks . . . . . . . . . . 443 100.00
Constable, Precinct No. 1
VOTE FOR 1
Dan "Ranger" Hall. . . . . . . . 487 100.00
County Chairman
VOTE FOR 1
Albert L. Ellison. . . . . . . . 1,864 100.00
********** (DEMOCRATIC PARTY) **********
President
VOTE FOR 1
Bill Richardson . . . . . . . . 26 .41
Hillary Clinton . . . . . . . . 3,272 52.15
Joe Biden . . . . . . . . . . 16 .26
Barack Obama . . . . . . . . . 2,833 45.15
John Edwards . . . . . . . . . 118 1.88
Christopher J. Dodd . . . . . . . 9 .14
United States Senator
VOTE FOR 1
Ray McMurrey . . . . . . . . . 696 13.73
Gene Kelly . . . . . . . . . . 1,270 25.05
Richard J. (Rick) Noriega . . . . . 2,580 50.90
Rhett R. Smith. . . . . . . . . 523 10.32
US Representative Dist 10
VOTE FOR 1
Larry Joe Doherty. . . . . . . . 1,161 73.95
Dan Grant . . . . . . . . . . 409 26.05
US Representative Dist 25
VOTE FOR 1
Lloyd Doggett . . . . . . . . . 3,426 100.00
Railroad Commissioner
VOTE FOR 1
Art Hall. . . . . . . . . . . 888 19.29
Dale Henry . . . . . . . . . . 1,258 27.33
Mark Thompson . . . . . . . . . 2,457 53.38
Chief Justice, Supreme Court
VOTE FOR 1
Jim Jordan . . . . . . . . . . 4,270 100.00
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 7
VOTE FOR 1
Sam Houston. . . . . . . . . . 3,198 66.24
Baltasar D. Cruz . . . . . . . . 1,630 33.76
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 8
VOTE FOR 1
Linda Reyna Yanez. . . . . . . . 2,001 42.30
Susan Criss. . . . . . . . . . 2,729 57.70
Criminal Appeals Judge Place 3
VOTE FOR 1
Susan Strawn . . . . . . . . . 4,103 100.00
Criminal Appeals Judge Place 4
VOTE FOR 1
J.R. Molina. . . . . . . . . . 4,205 100.00
State Representative Dist 17
VOTE FOR 1
Donnie Dippel . . . . . . . . . 2,612 53.74
Latreese A. Cooke. . . . . . . . 2,248 46.26
Chief Justice, 3rd Court of Appeals Dist
VOTE FOR 1
Woodie Jones . . . . . . . . . 4,151 100.00
District Judge, 21st Judicial District
VOTE FOR 1
Terry L. Flenniken . . . . . . . 4,264 100.00
District Judge, 423rd Judicial District
VOTE FOR 1
Ernie Bogart . . . . . . . . . 2,185 40.34
Chris Duggan . . . . . . . . . 3,231 59.66
Sheriff
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Wayne Smith. . . . . . . . . . 1,892 34.84
Tommy Oates. . . . . . . . . . 2,128 39.18
Glenn "Skip" Wobus . . . . . . . 1,411 25.98
County Tax Assessor-Collector
VOTE FOR 1
Linda Harmon . . . . . . . . . 4,879 100.00
County Commissioner, Precinct No. 1
VOTE FOR 1
Dock Jackson . . . . . . . . . 737 54.03
Willie "Bill" Peterson . . . . . . 627 45.97
County Commissioner, Precinct No. 3
VOTE FOR 1
Martin Brown . . . . . . . . . 571 40.96
John Klaus . . . . . . . . . . 823 59.04
Constable, Precinct No. 2
VOTE FOR 1
August "Gus" Meduna . . . . . . . 1,210 100.00
Constable, Precinct No. 3
VOTE FOR 1
Matthew Henderson. . . . . . . . 950 71.16
John Wesley McRee. . . . . . . . 385 28.84
Constable, Precinct No. 4
VOTE FOR 1
Roy Pruneda. . . . . . . . . . 1,129 100.00
County Chairman
VOTE FOR 1
Martha E. VanSant. . . . . . . . 4,273 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 1001
VOTE FOR 1
Lillie Dale Barnett . . . . . . . 271 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 1013
VOTE FOR 1
Gwendolyn L. Smith . . . . . . . 220 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 1014
VOTE FOR 1
Sam Owen West . . . . . . . . . 241 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 1021
VOTE FOR 1
Joni F. Ashbrook . . . . . . . . 183 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 2003
VOTE FOR 1
Ruth Sawyer Burns. . . . . . . . 216 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 2011
VOTE FOR 1
Connie L. McMillin . . . . . . . 122 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 2016
VOTE FOR 1
Anne P. Beck . . . . . . . . . 81 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 3005
VOTE FOR 1
Forrest Douglas Arnold . . . . . . 329 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 3010
VOTE FOR 1
Linda K. Laughinghouse . . . . . . 225 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 3019
VOTE FOR 1
Sherri Baker Bryant . . . . . . . 295 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 4006
VOTE FOR 1
Annie Lee Haywood. . . . . . . . 351 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 4008
VOTE FOR 1
Ivy Ann Cronin. . . . . . . . . 154 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 4015
VOTE FOR 1
Marsha Henson Correira . . . . . . 158 100.00
********** (REPUBLICAN PARTY) **********
IMMIGRATION
VOTE FOR 1
YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,379 95.39
NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 4.61
PHOTO ID
VOTE FOR 1
YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,293 91.87
NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 8.13
CONTROLLING GOVERNMENT GROWTH
VOTE FOR 1
YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,288 92.89
NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 7.11
Lloyd Doggett at Baxters on Main
Mar 3rd
Lloyd Doggett talks to Texas Democrats at Bastrop’s Baxter on Main.
Texas Independence Birthday Party
Mar 3rd
The Bastrop County Democratic Party put on a birthday bash at Baxters in Bastrop on Sunday, March 2, 2008.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 2nd through March 3rd
Mar 1st
These are my links for March 2nd through March 3rd:
- Social Bookmarking Icons – technorati, del.icio.us etc
- iShowU – Just drag the capture rectangle over what you want to record and hit enter. There’s only one button (that’ll be the one labelled “record”) between you and video bliss.
- SXSW Interactive 2008, A Massive Geek Convergence in Austin | Laughing Squid – SXSW Interactive 2008 starts next week (March 7-11) and the majority of the geek world that I know will be there. SXSW Interactive runs concurrent with SXSW Film and is followed by SXSW Music. This will be the fourth year I?ve attended the conference. H
- Pownce : SXSW 2008 . – Next New Networks and Tumblr are organizing the first ever and destined to be epic SXSW Rock Band party!
- How magazine – Events – I just booked my flight to Austin and registered for the South by Southwest Interactive Conference this March. I had an amazing time last year and this year is shaping up to be just as interesting. Confirmed sessions in the design track
- indieWIRE BLOGS > Matt Dentler’s Blog – sxsw blog covering music, film and interactive
- SXSW Festival | Facebook – sxsw on facebook
- 16bit SXSW Interactive 2008 Party on Flickr – Photo Sharing! – 16bit SXSW Interactive 2008 Party
- SXSW | Digital Savant – Unfortunately, I see one big problem: does anyone else get a little intimidated seeing that there are as many as 16 things going on at the same time in many of these time blocks?
- johnbiehler.com – There are many ways to see what?s going on from the official site, Upcoming, Facebook and the SXSW Insider on Ning to name few.
- Register to Buy with Home Auction Live – Onsite or Online Bidding – live home auctions in Austin, Texas
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 4th
Mar 1st
These are my links for March 4th:
- blist – really fine online database
- The Top 101 Ways of Making Money Online – There’s no catch and I’m not trying to sell you an ebook. Or anything (read about conmen who do). I’m not even signing you up for a newsletter. This list was put together more as a laugh. It may change your life. Or it may annoy you enormously because of
- Practical Blogging – Helping bloggers and webmasters increase their income via Adsense, Affiliate Advertising and General Blogging Help.
- SCHED: SXSW 2008 Schedule for Friday March 7 in Austin, TX – films, parties, interactive, nicely designed calendar
- SXSWi 2008 ical schedule by Stuart Colville -
- contact // hicksdesign – Hicksdesign is a small creative agency based in Witney, Oxfordshire, UK. We create web sites and user interfaces built with web standards, as well as designing for print (we like branding in particular).
- Performancing WordPress Themes » The world?s best free wordpress themes – themes for wordpress: college, tis the season redbook and performancing (very nice)
- SXSW ‘08 Insider’s Guide – SXSW insiders guide to share party info, blog posts, etc.
- Dave Made That – New Media Musings by Dave Delaney ? Join Dave Delaney as he explores and shares his findings from the wild world of web two-point-whoa! – On that note, be sure to friend me on the SXSW ?08 Insider?s Guide so we can stay connected in Austin.
- Video of my Graphing Social Patterns talk on MyBlogLog API | everwas – Video of my Graphing Social Patterns talk on MyBlogLog API
- http://everydotconnects.com/ – It?s the same with SXSWi, but the lure of connection, learning and good times at conferences is like the search for magical Disney moments, right? Aww, put on your Mouse ears and go with me on this one?.
- Silhouette WordPress Theme – some of the best wordpress themes like revolution and silhouette, tapestry, vertigo, dropshadow and downtown java. Excellence!
- Bryght | Community content hosting – Try a free 30-day trial of Bryght’s Drupal 5 hosted service today.
- Webware: Cool Web 2.0 apps for everyone – Twing is launching a new site on Tuesday where you can find out what people have written about specific topics in forums and other online communities.
- Downloads – Named after Futurosity, my other blog for which this theme was originally designed, Futurosity Magazine is a magazine-style theme with a custom home page, ready for multiple authors. Usage does require some hand coding, but it shouldn?t be too difficult
- blist | product – blist is the world?s easiest database, it?s a database for the rest of us. blist is easy, visual, and intuitive. And we are really excited about it!
- Arbitrage, brokerage, other clever ways to make money from anywhere in the world – He rinsed and repeated a few times till he was left with about 15,000 people who saw him get it right several times in a row. They were obviously very impressed. He then invited them to pay $5,000 each for a seminar with him on picking stocks!
- oh, don’t forget… – text messages queued up with ohdontforget.com will be delivered at the date & time specified, unless you specify “now”, which will send the message instantly






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