[todd] Super Tuesday Thread

What's your take? Already some suprises with West Virginia going to Huckabee and Ron Paul actually pulling a few delegates. (Are you supposed to say something after typing "Ron Paul" like "Yee-haw!"?)

The LA Times is blogging that Hillary's campaign is talking about potential defeat in California ... is that to lower expectations so that when they DO win, it'll seem like an upset or to lower expectations so that when they DON'T win it isn't an upset? (ahem.)

Results so far: Huckabee ... read on »
 
by itodd on 02/05/08 at 06:10 PM Comments (189)

[todd] Which Candidate Do You ‘Match’ The Most?

I found this over on Wired.com -- it's a quiz patterned after online matching services that lets you walk through a series of questions and then tells you which presidential candidates you're most similar to. Supposedly non-partisan and so on. (It's amazing what grants will fund, eh? :-)

Check it out at Glassbooth.org. Praise: It's great to see something focused on issues vs. the horserace. Complaints: it's a little black-and-white in the way it rates your similarities to candidates and ... read on »
 
by itodd on 01/03/08 at 10:16 AM Comments (8)

[todd] WJTV Digital to run ‘Retro’ Content

According to a press release the Retro Television Network announced today that it would be broadcast on WJTV's digital signal. (Digital signals allow local networks to broadcast multiple channels in the same amount of spectrum that used to be reserved for a single analog channel.)

Finally, years of spectrum squatting finally pay off in Gomer Pyle and Petticoat Junction re-runs. Thank God for the FCC. ;-)
 
by itodd on 12/21/07 at 05:01 PM Comments (1)

[todd] FCC Approves Media Cross-Ownership

Sure, you could try to maintain your CorporateDaily(TM) hegemony in a market like Jackson by locking up free distribution points in exclusive contracts. Or, you could turn to a variety of non-daily products, including forced circulation papers you toss in people's yards or send to their mailbox regardless of their interest in your product. You might even paper the sidewalks with half-assed competitors to your competitors...cookie-cutter print manifestations of your print partnerships in sites ... read on »
 
by itodd on 12/21/07 at 12:04 PM Comments (10)

[todd] JFP Radio Takes Day Off

We'd planned to have a follow-up to the Farish Street discussion that's been going on for a few weeks, but all the principals are out of town or tied up today and early deadlines for the holidays are squeezing us here at the JFP for the next few weeks. So, I'm going to call this a wash and we'll take the day off.

Tune in next week!
 
by itodd on 12/14/07 at 12:07 PM Comments (0)

[todd] Brad Pitt Fronts ‘Make It Right’ NOLA

Cool site features designs and information about the Make It Right (MIR) project for New Orleans. Architects were tasked with the goal of making low-income housing for the 9th Ward; the designs can't cost more than $150,000 to build (supposedly the foundation will help with financing to make $150k "affordable" in NOLA), have to include a porch, 3 bedrooms, modern green technology and most of the designs are made to withstand another storm (or otherwise ride it out, like one house that floats). ... read on »
 
by itodd on 12/04/07 at 10:41 AM Comments (1)

[todd] Nowhere to Sit: The Trent Lott Porch Story

A stirring documentary about Trent Lott's porch in Pascagoula after Katrina. I laughed, I cried. (Actually, I mostly just giggled a little bit. The rest of the 23/6 site has some funnier stuff, like the SwiftKids.)



 
by itodd on 12/04/07 at 10:17 AM Comments (3)

[todd] JFP Events ‘Beta’ Site

A combination of some late nights fighting all sorts of code (PHP, EE, HTML, CSS) by Yours Truly and many hours of hard work by our new Events Editor, Roy Adkins, the "JFP Events" online calendar is now a *live* beta. ;-) Many things are finalized (I hope), but I've just had to switch some URLs around and there may be a few broken spots.

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/jfp.php/events/

Check it out and then please respond here with any praise, advice, criticisms or bugs that you ... read on »
 
by itodd on 11/19/07 at 04:27 PM Comments (9)

[todd] Eaves Makes Front Page of NY Times

In a story headlined In Mississippi, Democrat Runs in G.O.P. Lane, reporter Adam Nossiter explores John Eaves' run to Haley Barbour's right on social and religious issues:

Already, this most unorthodox of Democratic campaigns — a strange contortion of swings from the far right, aimed from the left — is attracting attention, some grass-roots support in a Deep South state with a history of hardshell populism, and enough last-minute scorn from Mr. Barbour that Eaves workers are gleeful merely ...

[todd] Deuce McAllister’s Season Ends

Ouch. This sucks. It looks like Deuce has another torn ACL and will be out for the season. Once again he'll have to go through knee surgery and then a painful recoup process:

Now McAllister needs reconstructive surgery on the other knee, likely a patellar tendon graft, followed by the long, painful rehabilitation that will last almost until 2008 training camp begins, if not longer.