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Okay, it’s not space-related (and it’s not technically PPC, since he’s there on National Review’s nickel), but my People’s Press Collective co-conspirator Michael Sandoval is on the scene at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver. Rick Santorum and Rick Perry spoke this evening.  Santorum focused (utterly predictably) on gay marriage, using the issue as an (utterly predictable) cudgel against Perry, while Perry’s keynote focused on the 10th Amendment and the importance of voting ‘liberals’ out of office in 2012.

If Rick Santorum thinks that gay marriage is the defining issue for 2012, he will (and will deserve to) go down in flames rather quickly once the primary season starts. He reminds me of the candidate forum I attended in early 2010, when all three Libertarian Party candidates asserted that the most important issue facing Colorado and the nation was the legalization of marijuana. Sometimes there just isn’t a cluebat big enough.

Posted on July 29th, 2011 under Colorado Politics, politics. Tags: Colorado Politics, denver, gop, People's Press Collective, politics, PPC, Republicans, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Western Conservative Summit. Comments Off

A short, choppy featurette by our neighbors on the press riser on election night. I wish I had thought to do something like this when I had my hands on the big Sony we were using for interviews. (Yes, Michael self-identifies as National Review Online, but he’s still one of us.)

An amusing aside: Bob Zubrin (who is quite active in at least the rank-and-file level in Colorado Republican circles) was at one point examining our setup quite intently. Unfortunately, I had two interviews teed up and by the time I was through, he was gone.

Posted on November 6th, 2010 under politics, Useful Technology. Tags: election night, interview, new media, People's Press Collective, webcast. Comments: 1

A simple illustration of the difference between old media and new media:

The camera on the left was used by C-SPAN to tape (on a separate tape deck and 8″ CRT) the appearance by Ambassador Paul Bremer at the recent Leadership Program of the Rockies annual retreat. In regular definition. For later uploading to the DC headquarters for editing and broadcast.

The camera on the right is a consumer camcorder, which we at People’s Press Collective use to broadcast events like last week’s Congressional District 4 Debate live to the internet. In high definition. And did I mention we do it live?

Posted on March 19th, 2010 under Miscellaneous, PPC. Tags: colorado, CSPAN, Grassroots, new media, Paul Bremer, People's Press Collective. Comments Off

Yeah, I know I said I was going to be posting more frequently. Unfortunately for my vow, I got caught up in the long-delayed overhaul of People’s Press Collective for most of the past two weeks. Now that it’s nearly finished (which, websites being what they are, is a Xeno’s Paradox-based perpetual condition), I’m back again.

And ye gods, I hate it when people write blog posts promising that they’ll write more blog posts. Well, other people…

Posted on January 25th, 2010 under Meta. Tags: People's Press Collective. Comments: 1

Some of my co-conspirators at People’s Press Collective have been having a little fun with the “global warming insurance” video…

“It’s not like you’re gonna give up your whole paycheck, it’s just a few bucks a month [that you're gonna give up]“.

Dude…it’s not your money to take.

[hat tip: WhoSaidYouSaid]

Posted on December 8th, 2009 under Economics, Luddism, PPC. Tags: Bill Dube, Boulder, environmentalism, moonbats, People's Press Collective, Progressive Democrats of Colorado, satire, WhoSaidYouSaid. Comments Off