A commenter last week got me thinking about South Dakotans' political maturity and capability. We put three measures on our 2012 ballot by petition, then voted all three down. We killed two really bad ideas from the Governor and one…
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Attention political candidates: it's great that you're catching the online wave. But if you're advertising on Facebook, you may be wasting your money. A new study awaiting publication indicates that one week of Facebook ads produced little improvement in name…
The Circle H Motel in Lake Andes got lots of free publicity yesterday after I posted about its racist anti-Obama sign. Lots of people clicked from the Madville Times out to the Circle H Motel's Facebook page to offer their…
The SDPB Meet the Candidates videos introduce us to 105 of the 141 South Dakotans contending for seats in the State Legislature this year. Some of those candidates get more views than others. I wonder: which candidates are beating their…
As I page through South Dakota Public Broadcasting's Legislative candidate videos, my usual underdog urge drives me to bring attention to the lesser among us. Specifically, I wondered which candidates are getting the least attention from their free two-minute pitches.…
This morning's digital smoke-signal: Wikipedia has put the pages of several contenders for the Republican Vice-Presidential nomination in "semi-protected" mode to prevent a surge in edits in anticipation of Mitt Romney's announcement. Wikipedia's picks for the next potential Palin: Former…
Mr. Montgomery reports that Governor Dennis Daugaard is trying to get Amazon to move a warehouse to South Dakota. The main motivation discussed in the article is sales tax revenue. According to Montgomery's numbers, South Dakota misses out on about…
Wow: Team Noem must have gotten a Web intern! Continuing her reactive not proactive performance (not part of the definition of leadership!), South Dakota's lone Congresswoman responds to Mr. Montgomery's notice of her two-year-old web content by updating her campaign…