Tag: The Albany Project

(Let’s do this thing! – promoted by James L.)

(Adapted from a post at the albany project)

We are very, very excited to announce “Raise New York”, a “blograiser” for SSD-07 candidate Craig Johnson featuring Governor Eliot Spitzer! And when I say “we”, I am referring to, amongst many others, The Daily Gotham, Rochester Turning, Democracy In Albany, onNYTurf, WNYMedia.net, Swing State Project and, of course, us here at TAP.

Raise New York will take place on Thursday, February 1st at Prey in NYC. The event will also be liveblogged here and at Daily Gotham and DailyKos. There will be photos, audio and video in near real time for those who for whatever reason can’t attend in person. It’s gonna be a hoot.

What is so exciting about this event for me is that, besides raising some much needed money for Craig Johnson, it represents a real opportunity for partnership building between the progressive net/grassroots and a state Dem Party establishment  that hasn’t always been so interested in such things. There exists some very real potential for some mending of fences and and some trust building amongst all these groups as they fight for a common goal, namely reforming our joke of a state government.

The very nature of how this event came about is unprecedented as far as I can tell. This has never been done, or done in this way, ever before.

It also represents something potentially very special for the progressive NY blogosphere. It’s a demonstration that we can and will work together towards that common goal when we choose to do so. That’s never happened before and these new relationships could turn into something pretty freaking amazing. In fact, this may be what I find  most exciting.

So please join us for this amazing event! Join us in person or online and let’s do all we can to make ol’ Joe Bruno’s majority one seat more tenuous.

The Albany Project is very excited to announce the launch of TAPopedia, project very much inspired by both dalyKos’ dKosopedia and SSP’s own race tracker wiki. It’s a heck of an ambitious project and we’re gonna need all the help we can get to turn this into a useful resource for everyone.

Here’s the announcement as it was posted at the albany project:

Introducing TAPopedia!

We here at the albany project are very excited to announce the launch of a new wiki dedicated solely to New York politics. We feel that this tool can fill a very large gap and can, with your help, become a very powerful resource bloggers, journalists and, most importantly, for the citizens of New York.

We’ve built the skeleton, now we need to flesh it out. that’s where you come in.

It’s a wiki, so it will take time and and it will require the participation of plenty of folks to make it into what we hope it can be. We invite everyone to participate and hope you will consider adopting your Senate and/or Assembly districts, your reps, your whatever and pour your knowledge into this project. The wiki will be as good and as useful as we can make it.

Having all this data in one place in an ever growing, searchable pile has a lot of potential in our view.

We are also in the process of working up prototypes of some pretty sophisticated GIS maps that we hope to add soon. This stuff will blow you away.

Let’s build something amazing, people.

You in?

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The more folks we can get involved with this thing, the better mousetrap we will build. We can use everyone’s help and I so hope you’ll want to come out and play as well

There’s code for a button at the site, if you are so inclined.

Forward!