May 18, 2012 - 6:52am
Peter tweeted "RT @SpiegelPeter: This could well be the epitaph 4 whole crisis. RT @ekathimerini: French PM: 'We waited too long before helping Greece' ..." 6:52am#May 16, 2012 - 11:10pm
- Peter tweeted "RT @BreakingNews: Report: JPMorgan's trading loss rises at least 50%, sources say - @dealbook http://t.co/gW2G4ZcI" 11:10pm#
May 15, 2012 - 7:10am
- Peter tweeted "RT @hblodget: OH, PLEASE, NO: This Guy Wants To Bet His Daughter's College Fund On The Facebook IPO http://t.co/fbPcMrkw" 7:10am#
May 12, 2012 - 8:44pm
- Peter tweeted "RT @AP: In quirky Portland, candidates for mayor compete in doughnut-eating contest: http://t.co/kZ0FP6Qk -CC" 8:44pm#
May 9, 2012 - 7:13am
- Peter tweeted "RT @economistmeg: The path forward for Greece is unclear, but even the best possible scenario doesn’t look good. http://t.co/Adekbrtb" 7:13am#
May 8, 2012 - 7:21am
- Peter tweeted "RT @angeIamerkel: Writing reference letters for Sarkozy. #Merde" 7:21am#
May 6, 2012 - 9:09pm
- Peter tweeted "RT @Nouriel: French and Greek vote against the Austerians as the Eurozone recession becomes deeper and more severe" 9:09pm#
- Peter tweeted "RT @DanielAlpert: #Greece2012 "One is the Loneliest Number" ND + PASOK = 1 seat majority in Greek parliament. Unstable and likely unsust ..." 3:51pm#
May 5, 2012 - 1:35pm
- Peter tweeted "RT @chucktodd: and there's the use of the campaign slogan, "we are not going back, we are moving this country forward." -- POTUS" 1:35pm#
- Peter tweeted "RT @hblodget: THE TRUTH ABOUT TAXES: High Tax Rates On Rich People Do Not Hurt The Economy http://t.co/JN7ihmle" 12:01pm#
Newsclips
The Beautiful Emotions of the Paris Marathon
The folks at the Paris Marathon & Asics have assembled an outstanding video capturing the full gamut of emotions of the 2012 race.
CBS 6 Best of the Blogs: "Boulevardizen.com - Check it Out"
Richmond CBS affiliate WTVR 6 features Boulevardizen.com as its blog of the week:
RICHMOND - THE FAN - Time for this week's Best of the Blogs, our weekly segment on Virginia Tonight featuring local bloggers doing the best writing and reporting in their Richmond community. Our pick this week is boulevardizen.
Boulevardizen.com covers neighborhoods on and around "The Boulevard" in Richmond's Fan District. Boulevardizen is the blog formerly known as 10SBoulevard - made up of former apartment building tenants.
The blog has since renamed itself and taken on all the happenings around this historic street.
Micro News
Style Weekly reports on my Hyperlocal news projects: 10SBoulevard.com and Boulevardizen.com
Peter Feddo’s first-floor apartment on the Boulevard doesn’t look like the future of news. But the modest two-bedroom place just might be.
You might not recognize Feddo’s name. But if you follow local news and politics you might recall the building’s street address — 10 S. Boulevard — as the inspiration for Richmond’s only “super-hyper-local” Web site, 10sboulevard.com.
There, Feddo and the site’s co-founder, Joe Schilling, have reported on the news and events of the blocks around the building for the past two years: fires, car crashes, rabid raccoons, bad drivers, assaults, murder.
Armed with a Dell laptop, a smart phone and a Nikon D60 digital camera he bought for the site, Feddo prides himself on covering his neighborhood.
“If there’s crimes and fires or whatnot we race the local news affiliates out there,” Feddo says. “If there’s a fire, I’d IM [instant message] Joe and say, ‘Hey, you want to go?’” Usually he’s the first to the scene (“We know the alleyways,” he explains) — so often that he got a first-aid kit in case he arrives at a car crash before the rescue squad.
Get the full story and more from Style Weekly's feature on the future of news.
Peter & Joe Crash Fox News Channel's Coverage of the Shad Planking
Fox News Channel's Hannity show sent a crew to Virginia's political rite of spring, the Shad Planking and obviously their news team realized that Joe and I are experts on matters of beer, politics and shad. Watch the stunning excerpt from their segment below or catch the whole clip on Fox News Channel's website.
Poop Police Patrol the Boulevard
WRIC 8 in Richmond reports on canine feces vigilantes after 10SBoulevard.com broke the story:
And I Approved This Instant Message
The Democrats' embrace of the Web may simply be due to the fact that there appear to be more viable Democratic candidates for the White House, and all of them are trying to distinguish themselves from the pack.
Some of these Web gimmicks border on the absurd. For instance, Clinton's Web site has a selection of 30 "HillaryBuddies." They are icons – ranging from "Cat Lovers for Hillary" to "International Union of Painters and Allied Trades for Hillary" – that supporters can use on their AOL Instant Messenger. Web-based tricks like these are leading to a rather unusual political smackdown: Candidates are going out of their way to declare their geek appeal.
In late February, Clinton's Web site posted a press release claiming that VoteHillary.org had logged more than 1.7 million page views over the previous few months. Those page views, combined with the fact that the campaign was launching a new marketing campaign by buying selected Google Adwords, compelled Clinton campaign operative Peter Feddo to declare that "there is no doubt that Hillary Clinton is the candidate of the Internet savvy in 2008."
When a Draft Group's Candidate Announces, What Comes Next?
After months of work, the momentous day for Peter Feddo and his colleagues at the "draft Hillary" movement had finally arrived: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's formation of an exploratory committee meant a presidential run was imminent.
So what now?
Draft committees are a peculiar political animal; they exist to start building excitement for a presidential candidate who hasn't even decided to run. They launch Web sites, collect names of potential supporters and raise money in anticipation of a presidential bid.
Draft Obama! Why Bother?
VoteHillary.org, the "draft" website for Hillary Clinton, was created three years ago by Peter Feddo, a 23-year-old technology consultant in Richmond, Virginia, who says he spends more than twenty hours a week on the effort. He believes Clinton "acknowledged the grassroots call for her candidacy" by entering the race this weekend. While Feddo is generally upbeat about people getting active for any potential candidate, he did contrast Hillary's supporters with a more synthetic description of Obama's high-powered boosters. "It's certainly helped the draft Obama people to have Astroturf layers out there, but we've got the real deal," he said.
With Tactical Itinerary, Mrs. Clinton Skirts Iowa
Even at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, where former President Bill Clinton made what was widely viewed as a proxy appearance for his wife, the most visible show of support for Mrs. Clinton came from Peter Feddo , a 23-year-old who runs a Hillary Rodham Clinton for President Committee from Richmond, Va. Mr. Feddo had flown into Des Moines with thousands of “Hillary for President” stickers and signs that he passed out at the door; the best news, he said, was that some guests asked for two. “So that’s a sign of momentum for Hillary,” he said. “People not only want to support her, they want to tell their friends.”
Democrats, Republicans Gear Up for Hillary '08
The event was organized by Peter Feddo, the leader of the Hillary Clinton for President Committee, an organization dedicated to supporting a Clinton presidential bid that is wholly unaffiliated with the senator
He said his goals for the first MeetUp were to "introduce guests to our movement, our goals, and get them to take action for Hillary and sign petitions to deliver to influential DNC members."
Attendees also went home with freshly made "Hillary for President" bumper stickers and signs, he said.
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