Blog to Congress
Don Marti has created some code that makes a blog entry into a letter to Congress. Anyone want to make this for WordPress? Justin, Corey?
It’s a familiar complaint. “You web weenies blog until your hands fall off from carpal tunnel syndrome, but when it’s time to write a letter to Congress, you don’t have the time or you’re all elbows with the word processor.”Well, it’s time to stop that sorry situation right now. Here’s a Blosxom flavour to turn any Blosxom entry into a letter to the appropriate member of Congress. Preview, print, and stick it in an envelope. Thank you.
- Don Marti www/blog2congress.html
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[...] My former colleague, Ruby, points to some new code (currently just for Bloxsam) that allows you to print an entry out immediately and send it to your congress-critter. [...]
Pingback by Smallblog » Blog Archive » Mail Your Blog Post to Congress?! — November 19, 2005 @ 12:53 pm
geez, i’d rather it allow me to email a blog post to my congressman.
but this has got me thinking out inefficient this whole “representation” thing is.
Comment by Justin — November 19, 2005 @ 7:44 pm
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Ruby Sinreich, of lotusmedia consultants in North Carolinas Orange County [the other OC], blogs lotusmedia 2.0 [formerly, Rubys Rants and Randomness]. In a post this week, Blog to Congress, she has a bead on code [currently just for Bloxsam] to…
Trackback by Blogmandu — November 20, 2005 @ 11:49 am
Justin, every organization with a decent web budget has an “email your Representative and Senators” form. Everyone in Congress is getting deluged with email. A postal letter counts for more.
With the right “theme” or “flavour” you can use the blog tools you normally do, then when you’re near a printer, just view as letter, print, sign, and send.
Comment by Don Marti — November 21, 2005 @ 2:00 am