October 7, 2009
NCSL Gives Tennessee Legislature Web Site Top Honors
From TradingMarkets.com: The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) has honored the Tennessee General Assembly with its Online Democracy Award for the best legislative Web site in the country. The annual award recognizes a...Posted by joe lance on 8:46 PM
August 5, 2009
Social Media Scorecard: Candidates for Governor of Tennessee
The proof of the pudding is in the election night results, but regardless, it's fun to analyze campaigns from the proverbial armchair (or, heck, recliner) using silly filters, like "how well Campaign X uses...Posted by joe lance on 11:21 PM
July 23, 2009
Which Candidate for Governor Has the Best Web Site?
Here's your chance to laud, deride, or shrug at Tennessee's gubernatorial candidates' respective online presences. It's just for fun, but I'm interested in why you rate them the way you do. What is the...Posted by joe lance on 1:33 PM
April 4, 2009
Local television stations carry rivalry into social media
Even though some TV journalists, such as NBC's David Gregory, have been posting brief updates on the popular site Twitter for some time, Chattanooga's news outlets are more recent arrivals to the party. I...Posted by joe lance on 8:48 PM
March 13, 2009
Test post from iPhone
I'm checking out the Movable Type interface in Safari on the iPhone. I like. If needed, I could post to this blog from anywhere I have phone service -- though some might say that's...Posted by joe lance on 8:17 AM
February 27, 2009
Local Web site maps out campaign contributions
Bloggers at Chattarati say they spent long hours entering contribution information from publicly available disclosure documents into a database that then displays the contributors and amounts on interactive maps. The first campaign finance disclosures...Posted by joe lance on 11:50 AM
November 11, 2008
An experiment with Twittering local government
There I sat, silenced phone in hand, waiting for the dramatic debates, the earnest appeals, and the climax to a saga that has captured our city's attention for quite some time. There I sat,...Posted by joe lance on 9:22 PM
August 10, 2008
Let's make it a site to behold
The webdudes responsible for the Tennessee Legislature's online presence seek your input as to what improvements are needed and wanted by the browsing public. Give them some constructive feedback, and hopefully we'll see an...Posted by joe lance on 8:53 PM