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

4 comments ↓

#1 Smallblog » Blog Archive » Mail Your Blog Post to Congress?! on 11.19.05 at 12:53 pm

[...] 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. [...]

#2 Justin on 11.19.05 at 7:44 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.

#3 Blogmandu on 11.20.05 at 11:49 am

Roundup for Nov 14 - 20, 2005

Ruby Sinreich, of lotusmedia consultants in North Carolina’s Orange County [the other OC], blogs lotusmedia 2.0 [formerly, Ruby’s Rants and Randomness]. In a post this week, “Blog to Congress,” she has a bead on code [currently just for Bloxsam] to…

#4 Don Marti on 11.21.05 at 2:00 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.

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