Bellamy 115

We’ll be using CSS sprites for menus on our websites, so I thought I’d add a couple links in an article here for you.
This is an excellent tutorial from Chris Coyier on them:  http://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/
And he also has a video (although it’s a bit longer and doesn’t do exactly what we’ll be doing with the menus):
http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/43-how-to-use-css-sprites/
And [...]

Great video on the power of hypertext, linking, and the web.

This is a great article on Page Description Diagrams:  http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/where_the_wireframes_are_special_deliverable_3

[Geek alert]
The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva is ready for collision!  This morning CERN announced that the LHC is ready to start creating black holes today.  :)  You can watch the live web cast here:  http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics/
Here is a report from CNN on the LHC:
(CNN) — Deep underground on the border between France and [...]

  Here is a good article from Slate on the efficacy of robo-calls vs. texts.  We’ll be discussing these in class on Tuesday as part of the web sphere’s GOTV options.
Compared with TV advertising, door-to-door canvassing, and mega-rallies, automated phone calls are seductive because they harness modern telecommunications technology in the service of political persuasion. [...]

Thanks to Pablo for this - the agenda for POLC 2010 has been announced:  http://polc2010.com/agenda
From the website:

The Politics Online Conference is more than a decade old. Here are some highlights from 2009.
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The Politics Online Conference 2009 “Politics Comes of Age on the Internet” was hosted April 20-21, 2009 in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, [...]

Great group of hacking videos with implications for political candidate sites:

One of our very own, Pablo Pantoja, appears on this video to explain Web 2.0 and how DEM is using these technologies.

Thanks to Putting Politics on the MAAPP and Scion Democrat for this.
The Department of State has its own blog, Dipnote.
From a recent post, they wrote to the blog readers:
You have let us into your lives, as we sought to let you into our lives at the State Department. Together we have created a space where [...]

Here is a video on BarackObama.com’s mobilizing tools: