Libertarian Politics, Facebook Videos & Much Much More

by Chris Johnson

Instigator, anthill kicker.

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It’s going to take a decade, at least.  Probably longer.   But, we’ll reclaim this country in word and deed…without being corrupted or corruptible.   I have hope….because I know what side I’m on.

It starts and ends with education: overcoming the crap that’s poured into our heads about the nature of the world, overcoming the “pseudoeconomics” .  It starts with me continuing to educate myself, pointing out ideas to others.

I’m in with both feet.  What I did before prepared me for this.  3 weeks ago, Jeremiah Arn and I were talking.  How fast could we get quality stuff done?  How cheap.  He was shocked, as NetBoots quoted him $2500+ for baseline functionality.  I can do what they can do cheaper–partly because WP has a bigger community than Drupal, partly because we’ve done this for a while, and partly because Flat Rate Web Jobs has built ton of sites and has a decent system in place for at least that portion of the experience.  Cloning that and focusing on speedy delivery is key.

So, now, I make libertarian campaign websites for a living.  We’ll deliver five this week. First one off the line was last week  We were faster than their people were ready with copy.  That never happens.   For you Austinites that never read BHB, please vote for liberty minded Glen Mayes for school board starting April 26th.

Campaigns need speed–period.  That’s what they have to have to win, you recruit a candidate, you get them ready for primaries, then you have 50-60 days, tops to do everything.  Each day is a big portion of the total time, and waiting a week for a website is a killer.  When I worked on my campaign vendor delays were the #1 source of stress.

And there’s no excuse for that: with SQL every frollicking thing we do is a database entry.  See?  WP/Thesis/all of it.  It boils down to one database that we can re-use, re-deploy and set all the variables for with one form.  Call me a vendorslut already.  Whatever. We make it fast and we make it better with every iteration.  You know, a loop.

We can use the same open source-ish shopping cart over and over–again a database that we had to hack to do some campaign compliance things.  We can make it inherit the styles of our sites which are muy flexible.  So we can deploy a functional site as fast as a domain can propagate, have design and copy done in 2 days.  And, we can beat the going rates while still earning.

Oh, yeah, and I don’t really have to charge for most of the function of WP.  That’s the best part.  I built PC on WPMU (soon to be WP 3.0) and I can give away libertarian group websites.  Sure, they’ll have a .patriotconnect.com address, but, ya know, hopefully I’ll fare better than Greg did.  Since I’ve partnered up with Dix and her warm & fuzzy hosting, I’ll be fine.  I certainly don’t have any of that info in my brain.

Anyway little venture was on its way before the Health Care vote.  And now that that’s happened, my phone is blowing up with orders.  In one sense, I’m happy about that.  But in the other, I grieve.

Sean Purcell: I got on you for wasting time in politics.  Or on tinfoil fun.  Probably becaushttps://www.bloodhoundrealty.com/BloodhoundBlog/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=11618&message=10e it chaffed my soul.   I knew I needed to be there.   Just watch, friends.

This video is basically a Keynote presentation with a couple of edits in Screenflow.  Music comes from Video Copilot’s stock and royalty fee stuff.   I hate the way FB takes down the quality, we’ll fire it up on Youtube or Amazon’s S3.

Remember:

I. Am . Not. A. Republican.