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Bosworth Announces Intention to Enter Senate Race, Registers Web Domain

Annette Bosworth makes official what I reported last night based on her cringeworthy July 5 announcement to Gordon Howie: unless someone can talk some sense into her and save her medical practice and non-profit charity from destruction, Bosworth will announce…

Weiland Types up New Website

The truth is out there... in the typography! After weeks of public outcry (or maybe just a couple snarky blog posts), the Rick Weiland Senate campaign has finally come to its senses (or just gotten around to item #87 on…

Brendan Johnson Adopts Social Media; GOP Web Spinster Sputters

Pat Powers predictably snarkificates on U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson's opening of a Twitter account: ...isn’t raising his profile though the use of social media a political move for someone viewed by many Democrats as the future savior of the South…

Noem Web Icon Up-Ends Gay Rights Equality Sign?

Eager reader Jana noticed that the combination of the Contribute and Volunteer buttons on M. Michael Rounds's Senate campaign website hearkens to the pink-on-red equal sign folks are using to signal their support for marriage equality: "Mike is covering his…

Weiland Not Running… an Effective Campaign Website

Pat Powers pumped out three blog posts in twelve hours to promote the rumor that Rick Weiland is simply a placeholder candidate for Brendan Johnson. Powers offers no hard evidence to support this assertion. The idea that Weiland declares himself…

Pay Attention! Constant Online Activity Messes up Long-Term Memory

Speaking of technology and attention, here's a great video via Lifehacker on how we learn and how the constant stream of new stimuli from our computers and phones undermines our learning: When you let new items—e-mails, Tweets, texts, new Webpages…