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New gop.com site costed $1.4 million bucks!

» by russ October 23rd, 2009 at 9:58 pm » View Comments

According to LGF the GOP spent nearly $1.4 million dollars to build and host the new gop.com site. The same site I ranted about previously. This site was worth no where near $1.4 million bucks. I have to believe someone was either drunk/stoned when signing the contract or there was some funny [...]



New gop.com website: My Impressions

» by russ October 13th, 2009 at 8:23 pm » View Comments

So this morning I saw a Twitter post by Meghann Parlett (@MeghannParlett) that the new gop.com site had gone live. So I launched my browser and found the page was almost completely blank and useless without Javascript enabled. Even the logo was not visible on the site.

This was disappointing as it indicated [...]



The FCC, Net Neutrality and messing over the consumer

» by russ October 9th, 2009 at 10:30 am » View Comments

As I’ve said many times here increased regulation including net-neutrality regulation will result in poorer quality services and/or higher costs. This is a natural byproduct of governmental interference in the market. Gizmodo had an article that articulated this very point in regards to the recent regulation called for by the FCC chairman Julian [...]



What’s the sites number Joe?

» by russ February 26th, 2009 at 12:36 am » View Comments

Well Joe Biden or as I like to call him the gift that keeps on giving had trouble remember the recovery.gov website number. Number really? Is he calling the site on the phone? Maybe Joe is so hard core that he only accesses web sites via IP address. Either way this [...]



Google is ready to team up with The One

» by russ January 24th, 2009 at 12:56 am » View Comments

Google is ready to team up with The One to push their agenda in Washington. I would seem given the heavy contributions to Obama and Democrats they may very well have the leverage to make it happen. Their agenda seems innocent enough:
First, it wants to expand high-speed Internet access so people can use [...]



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