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Sep20	Government in the Age of Web 2.0 Bill Hobbs September 20, 2007 Know More: The Online Game bloggers, blogging, blogosphere, blogs, Internet politics, online politics The IBM Center on The Business of Government recently published a report on blogging in the public sector, titled "The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0." Very interesting stuff. It's a free download (Link. 99-page PDF) The research report was produced by Southeast Louisiana University management professor David Wyld In the video of his his presentation based on the report, Wyld mentions Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's blog, calling it, "one of the examples of how not to do this, because he started his blog, posted about five times, and then abandoned it." (See Part 2 of Wyld's video presentation.) Wyld also mentions my VolPols.com project in passing. VolPols.com, you may recall, was my offer of free blog hosting and free blogging training to any state legislator of either party who would blog at VolPols.com. Each legislator would have had their own URL - something like http://smith.volpols.com or www.volpols.com/smith - and the site was going to have an aggregator pull headlines from all of the legislators' individual blogs onto the home page, and into topic-oriented aggregated pages. But no legislator ever took me up on the offer. Wyld's research paper mentions two Tennessee legislator-bloggers in connection with VolPols.com, but those blogs (by state Rep. Stacey Campfield and state Sen. Roy Herron) were not hosted at VolPols.com. Campfield's blog, though not Herron's, pre-dated VolPols.com. I still own the VolPols.com website, though I now have no plans to pursue that project. Obviously, as the soon-to-be communications director for the Tennessee Republican Party I can't be offering blog help to Democrats. Still, I think it was a good concept, if ahead of its time. Posted at 5:56 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep20	Tennesseans To Vote Before New Hampshire in Presidential Primaries Bill Hobbs September 20, 2007 Here's a quick presidential primary quiz for you:True or False: Residents of New Hampshire will be the first to vote in a presidential primary in 2008.False, believe it or not. New Hampshire's "First in the Nation" primary is scheduled for Jan. 29... Continue Reading Posted at 11:29 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fred Ahead Bill Hobbs September 20, 2007 Now, why would blogger Bill Quick say, "This race is between Giuliani and Thompson, and Giuliani is losing." Well, consider the latest poll in Wisconsin, where Rudy Giuliani leads at 28 percent and Fred Thompson is in second place at... Continue Reading Posted at 6:33 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep19	Fred Blasts Hillary's Healthcare Plan Bill Hobbs September 19, 2007 On a video posted on his campaign site and YouTube, Fred Thompson wonders aloud why liberals think the best way to help people is to punish them. He's talking about Hillary Clinton's latest healthcare plan. Of course, Hillary's most famous... Continue Reading Posted at 1:45 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Delay of Game: NFL Retirees Waste Congress' Time Bill Hobbs September 19, 2007 Howard Mortman at the blog Extreme Mortman wonders why Congress is holding hearings on the National Football League's treatment of retired players with disabilities. It's just the latest in minor issues that the Democratic-led Congress has decided to hold hearings... Continue Reading Posted at 1:31 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep18	Why Fred Leads Bigger in the Rasmussen Poll Bill Hobbs September 18, 2007 Why does Fred Thompson have a bigger lead in the Rasmussen poll than other polls? Rasmussen's recent polls have had Thompson up by seven to 10 points, while other recent polls have Thompson second to or virtually tied with Rudy... Continue Reading Posted at 12:12 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep17	Fred Leads GOP Race Bill Hobbs September 17, 2007 You may have read stories in the printed press or online about how Fred Thompson's campaign is off to a lackluster start. You might even have believed those stories. Shame on you - trusting the media to tell the truth... Continue Reading Posted at 9:43 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep12	Hillary's Money Give-Back Is Just For Show Bill Hobbs September 12, 2007 The New York Times digs into the Hsu fund-raising scandal and how it is biting the Hillary Clinton campaign. Most revealing bit in the story: Right after the Clinton campaign gives the money back to the donors connected to Hsu,... Continue Reading Posted at 7:14 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep11	Fred Says Hillary's Hsu Money Recalls 1992 Clinton Fundraising Scandals Bill Hobbs September 11, 2007 The Washington Examiner reports that former Sen. Fred Thompson, who chaired a Senate investigation into illegal contributions by Asian-Americans to Bill Clinton's re-election campaign and to Bill and Hillary Clinton's legal defense fund in the 1996 election cycle, is saying... Continue Reading Posted at 9:04 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Six Years Later Bill Hobbs September 11, 2007 On this day, the sixth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, some bloggers are showing readers what they were writing back on that world-changing day. I didn't have a blog six years ago today - I didn't launch my... Continue Reading Posted at 12:56 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Post-9/11 Economic Boom Bill Hobbs September 11, 2007 James Pethokoukis looks at how the American economy has fared since the September 11 attack, an attack that Osama bin Laden later declared was in part intended to help bring down the U.S. economy.Since September 11, the economy hasn't suffered... Continue Reading Posted at 12:46 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How MoveOn.org Betrays America Bill Hobbs September 11, 2007 I was going to write today about the horrendous MoveOn.org ad calling Gen. David Petreaus a traitor, but TigerHawk has done it better than I possibly could have in a long post showing how it is MoveOn.org, not Petreaus, that... Continue Reading Posted at 8:30 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep10	What's Fred Smoking? Bill Hobbs September 10, 2007 The New York Daily News apparently doesn't pay attention to the news. In its story about Fred Thompson's Iowa campaign swing, the paper attacks Thompson for saying “an Al Qaeda smoking ban was one reason freedom-loving Iraqis bolted to the... Continue Reading Posted at 10:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	FBI Probes Democratic Fundraiser's Mystery Money Machine Bill Hobbs September 10, 2007 The Los Angeles Times reports that the FBI "has begun examining a murky business venture run by disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu that paid out hefty profits over the last several years to investors, some of whom were pressed to... Continue Reading Posted at 8:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	DailyKos Equates Osama bin Laden with Ronald Reagan Bill Hobbs September 10, 2007 I kid you not. DailyKos.com, the Left's most popular website and a key source of fund-raising for Democrats from coast to coast, says Osama bin Laden and Ronald Reagan have a lot in commonSo is Osama bin Laden truly "evil?"... Continue Reading Posted at 8:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 9	Who is Jeri Thompson? Bill Hobbs September 9, 2007 Nashville newspaper The Tennessean answers the question "Who is Jeri Thompson?" with a nice and rather revealing profile of Fred Thompson's wife. And - guess what - the portrayal of Jeri Thompson by the New York Times and other elite... Continue Reading Posted at 8:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fred Online - Day 1 Bill Hobbs September 9, 2007 An email from the Fred Thompson campaign just one day after he made his candidacy official shows how well Thompson's doing online:TO: Interested Parties FROM: Eric Livingston eCampaign DirectorDATE: 9/6/07RE: Fred08.com By The Numbers An update on Fred08.com’s first... Continue Reading Posted at 8:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 7	The Strategy of Campaigning Bill Hobbs September 7, 2007 UPS just delivered me a review copy of The Strategy of Campaigning, a book from University of Michigan Press that explores the political careers of Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin, two of the most galvanizing and often controversial political figures... Continue Reading Posted at 1:32 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Rudy Wrong: Illegal Immigration IS, in Fact, a Federal Crime Bill Hobbs September 7, 2007 Rudy Giuliani was a federal prosecutor before he became mayor of New York, and yet he doesn't know federal law very well when it comes to illegal immigration.Giuliani, interviewed by radio host Glenn Beck the day after the most recent... Continue Reading Posted at 1:13 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Why Isn’t There a Conservative Daily Kos? Bill Hobbs September 7, 2007 Matt Sheffield and Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters have posted an extremely important piece today attempting to answer the question, "Why Isn’t There a Conservative Daily Kos?" The NewsBusters piece explores issues raised by two recent articles on the same subject,... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Democrats's "Independent Panel" on Iraq Reports the Surge is Working Bill Hobbs September 7, 2007 Don Surber notes the irony of the latest official report on military progress in Iraq: Not trusting the military, Congressional Democrats set up an independent panel led by retired Marine 4-star James Jones to issue a pre-emptive report on progress... Continue Reading Posted at 7:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Dem's Favorite Fund-Raising Felon Found Bill Hobbs September 7, 2007 Bad news for the Democrats: Their favorite fund-raising felon has been found. And now that Norman Hsu has been nabbed in Colorado, where he was once again trying to flee authorities, there are a lot of unanswered questions about the... Continue Reading Posted at 5:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 6	The Book on Fred Thompson Bill Hobbs September 6, 2007 “For a guy who says he’s not running for political office,former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompsonsure is raising his public political profile lately.” I wrote that brief post on my blog on January 20, 2007, two years to the day before... Continue Reading Posted at 12:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 1	Leaving Elephant Biz Bill Hobbs September 1, 2007 It is with great excitement that I announce that I will be joining the headquarters staff of the Tennessee Republican Party in late October to serve as the party's communications director. Robin Smith, chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party, notified... Continue Reading Posted at 1:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments

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Sep20	Government in the Age of Web 2.0 Bill Hobbs September 20, 2007 Know More: The Online Game bloggers, blogging, blogosphere, blogs, Internet politics, online politics The IBM Center on The Business of Government recently published a report on blogging in the public sector, titled "The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0." Very interesting stuff. It's a free download (Link. 99-page PDF) The research report was produced by Southeast Louisiana University management professor David Wyld In the video of his his presentation based on the report, Wyld mentions Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's blog, calling it, "one of the examples of how not to do this, because he started his blog, posted about five times, and then abandoned it." (See Part 2 of Wyld's video presentation.) Wyld also mentions my VolPols.com project in passing. VolPols.com, you may recall, was my offer of free blog hosting and free blogging training to any state legislator of either party who would blog at VolPols.com. Each legislator would have had their own URL - something like http://smith.volpols.com or www.volpols.com/smith - and the site was going to have an aggregator pull headlines from all of the legislators' individual blogs onto the home page, and into topic-oriented aggregated pages. But no legislator ever took me up on the offer. Wyld's research paper mentions two Tennessee legislator-bloggers in connection with VolPols.com, but those blogs (by state Rep. Stacey Campfield and state Sen. Roy Herron) were not hosted at VolPols.com. Campfield's blog, though not Herron's, pre-dated VolPols.com. I still own the VolPols.com website, though I now have no plans to pursue that project. Obviously, as the soon-to-be communications director for the Tennessee Republican Party I can't be offering blog help to Democrats. Still, I think it was a good concept, if ahead of its time. Posted at 5:56 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep20	Tennesseans To Vote Before New Hampshire in Presidential Primaries Bill Hobbs September 20, 2007 Here's a quick presidential primary quiz for you:True or False: Residents of New Hampshire will be the first to vote in a presidential primary in 2008.False, believe it or not. New Hampshire's "First in the Nation" primary is scheduled for Jan. 29... Continue Reading Posted at 11:29 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fred Ahead Bill Hobbs September 20, 2007 Now, why would blogger Bill Quick say, "This race is between Giuliani and Thompson, and Giuliani is losing." Well, consider the latest poll in Wisconsin, where Rudy Giuliani leads at 28 percent and Fred Thompson is in second place at... Continue Reading Posted at 6:33 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep19	Fred Blasts Hillary's Healthcare Plan Bill Hobbs September 19, 2007 On a video posted on his campaign site and YouTube, Fred Thompson wonders aloud why liberals think the best way to help people is to punish them. He's talking about Hillary Clinton's latest healthcare plan. Of course, Hillary's most famous... Continue Reading Posted at 1:45 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Delay of Game: NFL Retirees Waste Congress' Time Bill Hobbs September 19, 2007 Howard Mortman at the blog Extreme Mortman wonders why Congress is holding hearings on the National Football League's treatment of retired players with disabilities. It's just the latest in minor issues that the Democratic-led Congress has decided to hold hearings... Continue Reading Posted at 1:31 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep18	Why Fred Leads Bigger in the Rasmussen Poll Bill Hobbs September 18, 2007 Why does Fred Thompson have a bigger lead in the Rasmussen poll than other polls? Rasmussen's recent polls have had Thompson up by seven to 10 points, while other recent polls have Thompson second to or virtually tied with Rudy... Continue Reading Posted at 12:12 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep17	Fred Leads GOP Race Bill Hobbs September 17, 2007 You may have read stories in the printed press or online about how Fred Thompson's campaign is off to a lackluster start. You might even have believed those stories. Shame on you - trusting the media to tell the truth... Continue Reading Posted at 9:43 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep12	Hillary's Money Give-Back Is Just For Show Bill Hobbs September 12, 2007 The New York Times digs into the Hsu fund-raising scandal and how it is biting the Hillary Clinton campaign. Most revealing bit in the story: Right after the Clinton campaign gives the money back to the donors connected to Hsu,... Continue Reading Posted at 7:14 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep11	Fred Says Hillary's Hsu Money Recalls 1992 Clinton Fundraising Scandals Bill Hobbs September 11, 2007 The Washington Examiner reports that former Sen. Fred Thompson, who chaired a Senate investigation into illegal contributions by Asian-Americans to Bill Clinton's re-election campaign and to Bill and Hillary Clinton's legal defense fund in the 1996 election cycle, is saying... Continue Reading Posted at 9:04 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Six Years Later Bill Hobbs September 11, 2007 On this day, the sixth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, some bloggers are showing readers what they were writing back on that world-changing day. I didn't have a blog six years ago today - I didn't launch my... Continue Reading Posted at 12:56 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Post-9/11 Economic Boom Bill Hobbs September 11, 2007 James Pethokoukis looks at how the American economy has fared since the September 11 attack, an attack that Osama bin Laden later declared was in part intended to help bring down the U.S. economy.Since September 11, the economy hasn't suffered... Continue Reading Posted at 12:46 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How MoveOn.org Betrays America Bill Hobbs September 11, 2007 I was going to write today about the horrendous MoveOn.org ad calling Gen. David Petreaus a traitor, but TigerHawk has done it better than I possibly could have in a long post showing how it is MoveOn.org, not Petreaus, that... Continue Reading Posted at 8:30 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep10	What's Fred Smoking? Bill Hobbs September 10, 2007 The New York Daily News apparently doesn't pay attention to the news. In its story about Fred Thompson's Iowa campaign swing, the paper attacks Thompson for saying “an Al Qaeda smoking ban was one reason freedom-loving Iraqis bolted to the... Continue Reading Posted at 10:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	FBI Probes Democratic Fundraiser's Mystery Money Machine Bill Hobbs September 10, 2007 The Los Angeles Times reports that the FBI "has begun examining a murky business venture run by disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu that paid out hefty profits over the last several years to investors, some of whom were pressed to... Continue Reading Posted at 8:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	DailyKos Equates Osama bin Laden with Ronald Reagan Bill Hobbs September 10, 2007 I kid you not. DailyKos.com, the Left's most popular website and a key source of fund-raising for Democrats from coast to coast, says Osama bin Laden and Ronald Reagan have a lot in commonSo is Osama bin Laden truly "evil?"... Continue Reading Posted at 8:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 9	Who is Jeri Thompson? Bill Hobbs September 9, 2007 Nashville newspaper The Tennessean answers the question "Who is Jeri Thompson?" with a nice and rather revealing profile of Fred Thompson's wife. And - guess what - the portrayal of Jeri Thompson by the New York Times and other elite... Continue Reading Posted at 8:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fred Online - Day 1 Bill Hobbs September 9, 2007 An email from the Fred Thompson campaign just one day after he made his candidacy official shows how well Thompson's doing online:TO: Interested Parties FROM: Eric Livingston eCampaign DirectorDATE: 9/6/07RE: Fred08.com By The Numbers An update on Fred08.com’s first... Continue Reading Posted at 8:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 7	The Strategy of Campaigning Bill Hobbs September 7, 2007 UPS just delivered me a review copy of The Strategy of Campaigning, a book from University of Michigan Press that explores the political careers of Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin, two of the most galvanizing and often controversial political figures... Continue Reading Posted at 1:32 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Rudy Wrong: Illegal Immigration IS, in Fact, a Federal Crime Bill Hobbs September 7, 2007 Rudy Giuliani was a federal prosecutor before he became mayor of New York, and yet he doesn't know federal law very well when it comes to illegal immigration.Giuliani, interviewed by radio host Glenn Beck the day after the most recent... Continue Reading Posted at 1:13 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Why Isn’t There a Conservative Daily Kos? Bill Hobbs September 7, 2007 Matt Sheffield and Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters have posted an extremely important piece today attempting to answer the question, "Why Isn’t There a Conservative Daily Kos?" The NewsBusters piece explores issues raised by two recent articles on the same subject,... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Democrats's "Independent Panel" on Iraq Reports the Surge is Working Bill Hobbs September 7, 2007 Don Surber notes the irony of the latest official report on military progress in Iraq: Not trusting the military, Congressional Democrats set up an independent panel led by retired Marine 4-star James Jones to issue a pre-emptive report on progress... Continue Reading Posted at 7:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Dem's Favorite Fund-Raising Felon Found Bill Hobbs September 7, 2007 Bad news for the Democrats: Their favorite fund-raising felon has been found. And now that Norman Hsu has been nabbed in Colorado, where he was once again trying to flee authorities, there are a lot of unanswered questions about the... Continue Reading Posted at 5:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 6	The Book on Fred Thompson Bill Hobbs September 6, 2007 “For a guy who says he’s not running for political office,former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompsonsure is raising his public political profile lately.” I wrote that brief post on my blog on January 20, 2007, two years to the day before... Continue Reading Posted at 12:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 1	Leaving Elephant Biz Bill Hobbs September 1, 2007 It is with great excitement that I announce that I will be joining the headquarters staff of the Tennessee Republican Party in late October to serve as the party's communications director. Robin Smith, chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party, notified... Continue Reading Posted at 1:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments

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