Five most read blog posts of 2011

Last year was a busy one for me.  That means I didn’t get to write as much as I wanted too. That being said, this site received close to 5,000 visitors this site and more than 10,000 pageviews. I’m really excited about these numbers given how little I wrote last year. The vast majority of [...]

NGP & VAN Merge: Field, Finance and Comm need to merge too (Part 2)

In Part 1 I took a look at some of the technical implications of a VAN/NGP merger. This post is about a merger of different kind; the staff merger.

NGP & VAN to Merge: Yay? (Part 1)

Last week, NGP and VAN announced in an email (using NGP’s email blast wizard) that the two database software companies would be merging at the end of the year. Democratic tech and data geeks across the country rejoiced as the news spread quickly via twitter. While I’m definitely intrigued at the prospect of finally having these two systems integrated, I’m cautiously optimistic about the resulting product. There are a lot of questions that won’t be answered until after the merger but that doesn’t stop users from posing a few and maybe even making some requests.

If You Can’t Beat ‘em, Join ‘em: Baltimore Sun Offers Blogs to All Maryland Candidates

Also published on epolitics.com Call it innovation, call it self-preservation, call it a traffic scheme, but the Baltimore Sun, one of the leading papers covering Maryland politics, has made the decision to offer a blog to every legally registered candidate running for office in the state of Maryland. The offer is bi-partisan and covers both [...]