Conservatives move on Digg

Although dominated by liberals, conservatives today announced a major development in taking on Digg

clipped from www.techpresident.com Digging Conservatism: Some of the digs against Digg, the community-ranking site, is that it's biased against women and weighted in favor of liberals. On the latter, enter #diggcons, an effort under the banner of the conservative #dontgo movement that aims to aggregate the weight of the right-leaning to promote their preferred content on not only Digg, but StumbleUpon as well. Twitter messages marked with the diggcons hashtag will sound the alarm on stories that could use a thumbs up. Will even the amassed voting power of online conservatives be enough to lift conservative content out of the ever-churning cauldron of Digg content? We'll see. But along with Top Conservatives on Twitter, it's another smart attempt to conquer social media from the right -- efforts largely unmatched on the left.

Real Estate Recovery predicted for 2009

Watch for a massive and rapid recovery in housing and real estate in 2009 according to blogger (me) Steve Dalton and a list of Carnival writers

clipped from synergyhomes.blogspot.com RE.covery Carnival of Real Estate clipped from exitrealestate540.com I LOVE A PARADE - Especially a PARADE of REAL ESTATE POSTS about a RECOVERY! THE 2009 REAL ESTATE RECOVERY ... RE.COVERY Real Estate Recovery in 2009 from The Real Estate Bloggers has the Governor of California predicting that 2009 will see the real estate recovery. I for one agree. This post wasn't submitted but I took some liberty and included it to start things off.

#TCOT targets Pigs wanting gov't cash

GM, Chrysler and UAW still want cash handouts even though Ford says it can make it thru 2009

clipped from michellemalkin.com Operation Three Little Piggies Top Conservatives on Twitter have launched a new action project targeting the “three little piggies” — UAW President Ron Gettelfinger, GM CEO Rick Wagoner, and Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli. I know I’ve got a lot of fabulous Photoshoppers out there. This one sounds fun. So go and check out Operation Three Little Piggies here. And if you haven’t opened a Twitter account (or haven’t figured it out yet), make sure to join TCOT.

Lessons from Campaign 2008

McCain campaign staffer Ben Porritt on what happened and what worked, and of course what didn't work in the campaign

clipped from chrisfaulkner.wordpress.com Lessons from the 2008 trenches, Part 1 As promised I am bringing you part 1 of our series on Lessons from the 2008 trenches. Our first contributor is Ben Porritt. Ben served as  the national spokesman for the McCain-Palin campaign and a co-founder of Outside Eyes strategy group in Southern California. CF What campaign on the GOP side had the most effective use of New Media? Chris Faulkner

Top 200 Conservatives in US on twitter

You asked and now the list is fully automated

clipped from www.topconservativesontwitter.org Welcome to the new TCOT ! Welcome to the new, fully-automated Top Conservatives on Twitter ! The site is still very much a work in progress, so stay tuned as we evolve further... Read More Add Comment (6) Hits: 42 Last Updated on Thursday, 04 December 2008 22:31   Top Conservatives on Twitter last update: 12-04 08:15 pm

Calling all RNC Members to Twitter

Only 7 so far, and a list of over 200 conservatives on twitter, well worth the read

clipped from topconservativesontwitter.blogspot.com Top Conservatives on Twitter First SEVEN RNC Members are on Twitter. Only 161 more to go ! Our mission, is to get all 168 RNC members on Twitter by January 28, 2009, the day they will be voting for the new RNC Chair! (as of 7:15 pm CST Dec 2) (1) @jamesdickey 4,438 Delegate to RNC from Dallas, Texas (Denton County) (2) @johnculberson 4,016 Tech savvy Republican member of Congress. Definitely not a Brain Dead Luddite. (3) @brooksbayne 3,159 (4) @lesliecarbone 2,858 Blogger and occasional Weekly Standard contributor (5) @PatrickRuffini 2,053 The conservative tech geek behind Rebuild the Party. (6) @daltonsbriefs 1,730 Local Indiana editor for Red County Blogs. (7) @michaelpleahy 1,665 Author of Rebuilding the Republican Party Despite the Brain Dead Luddites Who Run It. Tennessee editor for Red County Blogs.

Indiana cities and towns slashing budgets

After HEA 1001 in early 2008 Indiana local governments were put on notice that they would have less money to work with going forward.

clipped from www.howeypolitics.com Cities and counties across the state are slashing their budgets and will face even more cuts next year when the HB1001 property tax caps come partially into play. The property tax reforms passed in the 2008 Indiana General Assembly followed tax protests across the state in 2007 that came on the heels of the defeat of more than 40 percent of the state’s incumbent mayors that November. A number of municipalities are also preparing to seek a variety of new local option taxes to make up for some budgetary shortfalls, heeding the advice of Gov. Mitch Daniels, House Speaker B. Patrick Bauer and Senate President Pro Tempore David Long who made that appeal in 2007 in a rare joint statement. The Lake County Council slashed its budget by $15 million on Tuesday night, cutting 112 jobs. Gary, facing a huge budget shortfall, laid off 15 firefighters on Monday. The cuts are coming later this year after the Department of Local Government Finance extended the budget deadlines to December.