Here's my attempt at helping the cause

http://www.democracyreborn.org
I've been working on this website in my spare time between classes and homework. This is my website targeting people like me mainly, college students, who weren't exposed to such information as we were during the election.

I need feedback to help increase the quality of this site, but mostly I feel its reached a passable quality and am ready to start sending it to some friends at other colleges and seeing if they can start doing some leafletting campaigns around campus or something.

I haven't thought too much about getting the word out yet, was mainly tunnel-vision-focused on developing this site (and fixing domain problems) for a while...

Ok, well I hope everyone has a Happy Easter or enjoys their sunday, and lets try to bring some life back to this board and cause...

what does everyone think about me linking to this board...would it let too much newbie-blood into the system....meaning would the ## of referrals not knowing the past 4 months of posts @ DU get to be too much to handle?

-Peace
CC

In particular, I saw that Christopher Hitchen's Vanity Fair article on the 2004 elections. When I first saw mention of that on DU, I went out and bought that magazine. I've since lost it, and am glad to see that it's now available on the web.

pnorman

give you a heads up for another article that, according to another DUer, will be in the April edition of Harpers Magazine. It's about social security (equating it to a Ponzi scheme), written by Michael Hudson. I'm real interested in that but have so far been unable to find this magazine in any stores around here, though haven't gone to B&N. Not on their website either. But, like the Vanity Fair article, this will undoubtedly be food for discussion. Also, any info on PNAC to edumicate the masses is recommended, if only to show what we're up against!

Good luck with your site!

unearthed on the internet about the rethugs' TRUE intent for this country (i.e., on dismantling Social Security, etc.).

Thanks for your work and I'd say that you've contributed very nicely! I'll look forward to visiting some more later.

going to take Classified Ads in College Newspapers? Not sure what you would put in the first line ( a hook to get them to your website)

Got Democracy?
www.democracyreborn.org

Not a great hook --I'm sure you could come up with others that reveal the contents of your site or make people go to it to find out more -- When you are ready, you could also do a press release and send it to College Newspapers and your local papers -- some of them might bite and publish a blurb about it.

Good Luck!

I hadn't seen that before.

The site is pretty good though the text could be a little more eye-grabbing. The text color on your sub-pages isn't so great.

But great job and good luck with the site.

online editor...and for simplicity of editing reasons i'm not using dreamweaver
thanks :)

"I smell a rat" got me started searching the web way back when. It was the catalyst in finding DU.

Thanks again. :thumbsup:

I agree the Vanity Fair article is a good. It's an excellent intro article. It opens the mind for those wondering and starts the process to look at more. I remember how I got sucked into this slowly. It's very tough to start looking at TIA's (DU's TruthisAll) doc so keeping is simple is good. And as they look for more then add the heavier stuff. I think reference links to foreign election that were questioned by exit polls are very helpful. And I like to review Roman history or German history. Seriously! Roman history is a good example that great democracy can loose there way. It's not like it's never happened before and not that long ago either.

Thanks for posting this!

...needs a new background color or new text color! Otherwise, it looks pretty good!

Also, it wasn't just minorities who were disenfranchised in OH (e.g., Kenyon College). You might want to mention that.

As far as linking to DU, I think you should do it, with an advisory to lurk for a while before posting, and to read some of the archives from Nov/Dec and particularly before or immediately after Jan 6. Also, link to the video made by DUers! And also, put something about Jan 6 on the home page. Maybe link to the CSPAN Jan 6 debate videos, which I and others posted soon after they aired (assuming they still work). What do you think?

Oh, and THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!

search, though...

matthew siegel? he gave testimony on voting problems

"Hearing panelist Matthew Siegel, a Kenyon College student, testified that there were only two voting machines for the 1,300 voters on his campus and one machine was broken for more than two hours while a student fainted and others got sick from standing in line for up to nine hours when suburban precincts would have had 8-10 machines for the same number of voters."
-http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20041213140402925

You might find the video of this in CSPAN's...

On edit, this is it!:

rtsp://cspanrm.fplive.net/cspan/project/c04/c04120804_conyers.rm

A.k.a Kenneth Fraudwell the biggest instigator of illegal fraud in the Ohio Votergate, with the Dominionist agenda of Knight of Malta George Voinovich and a total cascade of thousands of religious fundamentalists?

"We're very confused that you have a Republican Party platform, and yet people running for higher office pay no attention to it," said Phil Burress, the leader of the Issue 1 campaign, who is also helping organize the Restoration Project. "Why don't they just become Democrats?" he asked"

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/politics/27OHIO.html

Answer: Opus-Dei controlled state and senate, and one hell of a jesus network re-writing the whole bill of rights.

is the testimony by an Ohio college student in the Conyers' hearing, the first one, I believe.

In fact, linking to the entire testimony might not be a bad idea.

have a title in the Heading code. Not sure what editor you are using. You should be able to add a title with an editor -- or, if you can't find out how to do it, if you can access the code then you can change the title in the HTML yourself.

The very top of your HTML page looks like this

<head>
<title>title</title>
<meta name=description content="">
<meta name=keywords content="">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">

If you can -- where it says <title>title</title> it needs to Have a Title where the bold word is. I would use something that is distinctive (not just the name of your website). When someone saves/bookmarks a site, it's the word or phrase that it is saved under.

Just be sure to save after you change the code if you do it that way.

The Title Tag also helps with Search Engines.

I'd heard about it, its now downloaded and i'm gonna play around on it after some homework, last time I tried to mess with with the code it ended up messing up the whole template (don't where this online html editor gets off only letting me edit inner code...while not using frames) but thats besides the point, i'll just back stuff up before I mess w/anything
thank you
-CC

p.s. Found how to edit meta tags...duh and updating the title-less pages, good find

has written some of the most convincing stuff I 've seen. Much more convincing to skeptics when a conservative repub is freaking out about e-voting. My favorite fraud article bar none is this one:
http://www.chuckherrin.com/ConservativeEmpathy.htm

Empathy Training for Compassionate Conservatives: Why the Democrats Are Still Whining About the Election (and Why Maybe We Should Be, Too)