Plead the First

ConvergeSouth is coming soon. Ben asked if I’d be interested in creating a short promo video for it. At first I said “no” because while I enjoy making home movies, I’d never made a video that didn’t involve small babies and family members. Eventually, I decided to give it a try. Here’s the result: I’m […]

The second annual ConvergeSouth blogging conference will be at NC A&T State University in Greensboro on October 14th. I had a great time at last year’s conference, and am going to try to make it again this year. Head on over to the official ConvergeSouth website to get more info and register.

Ok, I’m finally going to bite the bullet and try to upgrade to WordPress 2.0 tonight. So if things get flaky, that’s why. Wish me luck. Update: What? That’s it? That was too easy. Surely something must have gone wrong somewhere. Please let me know if you see my blog implode or otherwise act up.

Bubba, longtime commentor at Ed Cone’s blog and the News and Record LTE blog now has his very own blog: Noteworthy. It’ll be nice to have another conservative blog around – Greensboro area blogs do tend to lean left a bit, so it’s good to have the other side represented a little more. However, it […]

The onslaught of spam was getting to be too much, so I’ve installed Spam Karma 2. If you comment on a post and your comment doesn’t show up in the thread, please send me an email using the “Email me” link on the right side of the page.

The May 16 edition of the show with zefrank included a challenge to viewers to create an Earth Sandwich by placing a slice of bread on the ground, and having someone on the exact opposite side of the Earth do the same. The cool part about this is the “Find the opposite tool” provided to […]

I’ve gotten a great response to my local political cartoons here at Plead the First. Starting on Sunday, they’ll have a wider audience, as they’ll be appearing on The News and Record’s Sunday editorial page. (Yes, the “Anthony” mentioned at that link is me, for those of you who were until now unaware of my […]

Here’s the latest version of Greensboro’s Political Comapss: I find it interesting that many of the results that fall into the center and the lower-left quadrant seem to be “bunched up” in many places – specifically there are four groupings towards which many of the results seem to gravitate. Compare that to the upper and […]

Thanks to everyone who added their results in the earlier thread. I was right – a smaller font size was definitely necessary. I made some other minor changes to the graph, including adjusting Cara Michele’s marker to reflect her actual score, which she sent to me via email. Everyone else should be in the correct […]

Last week I posted a link to politicalcompass.org, a site with a quiz that expands on the traditional “left vs. rightâ€? political spectrum. Several local Greensboro-area bloggers took the quiz and posted their results. I’ve plotted them on a handy dandy chart to see how everyone compares: An explanation of the chart can be found […]