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ePMedia February Newsletter

by ePluribus Media

Mon Feb 13, 2006 at 03:26:05 PM EST

So what did the groundhog see?

You all have been busy busy! -- no hibernating through winter among the ePluribus Media folks, that's for sure.

But before we get into listing what went on in January, a little "happy birthday to us" is in order.

Avahome, Kfred and Roxy have been cooking up some birthday cake and Luaptifer wrote, without even knowing it, a poem celebrating our birth. Come sign the birthday card we sent ourselves over at the Community site Happy Birthday to US!

If you have a blog and would like to put our birthday card up here's the link First Anniversary Card.

And, if you like, you can add a little "cake" to your signature. Here's the link sig_cake.gif.

Note though that Dailykos prefers that graphics not be used signatures, so consider adding a link to our donate page instead. For example, "Happy 1st Birthday ePluribus Media! Help us reach 2 with a <a(space here)href="http://www.epluribusmedia.org/donate.htm">donation< /a>.

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What's Been Happening?

Stories and Such:

Vivian Pettyjohn brought us coverage about what's been happening on the Arizona sector of the border with her brilliant piece Charged With Possession of a Conscience

BarbinMD extended the investigation of the Heritage Foundation's recommendations and looked at the human costs in her article FEMA decisions have a name

Rba has started a daily "Un-News" thread on the Community where folks can post links and snippets of articles and news that are important, but somehow slipped beneath the radar Check out what he is doing and post your links and news. His commentaries go up at the beginning of each day.

The research that Jill Lehnert and wanderindiana did for their Civil Rights Commission article about the Republicans packing the Civil Rights Commission has been picked up by Yahoo news in a press release from American Small Business League.

Aaron Barlow's review of Markos Zuniga and Jerome Armstrong's Crashing the Gate hit the front page over at the Orange Mothership.

Matt Boersma entered the frey with a terrific interview with Fighting Dem Bill Winter who is running against Tancredo for the Colorado Congressional 6th seat.

Great new commentaries on the community site include ilona's continuing series on our Veterans and PTSD, Jeff Huber's ongoing commentaries of all things military. Welcome to all for their wonderful commentaries -- Land of Enchantment, Renee in Ohio, Duke1676, Captain Future, Kfred, populistamerica, Welshman, wanderindiana, Silence, bronxdem, Cedwyn, Greyhawk, timroff, renarf, Kagro X,avahome, jeninRI, Vivian Pettyjohn, Penny Century, seenos, lichtman, polydactyl, txj, standingup, bozosRnot4Bush, Susie Dow,Jeff Huber, DEFuning,, ilona, BarbinMD, and Aaron Barlow

Stuff and such about our sites:

If you have not yet seen it, Leftylimblog asked Kos to link to us and Kos graciously put a link to us on his blogroll.

You may have noticed the addition of Google ads to the Community site as well as more spiffing up at the Journal and thanks to a tip from Bruce Wilson, we made some improvements to our server usage.

Coming Soon

ePluribus Media Timelines continues our in-depth examination of current events with 2 new timelines. The first will examine events relating to the Plame leak and on-going criminal investigations. The second focuses on the unfolding Medicare Part D debacle. If you are interested in contributing research or support to these initiatives or any of the Timelines projects, email us at timelines@epluribusmedia.org

There will be more improvements coming in the weeks and months ahead. If you like what we've been doing, don't be shy about volunteering to help with the timelines, write a review, post commentaries or comments on the Community site, or jump into an investigation. And of course, consider donating to keep the servers humming. If you have a tip, please submit it to leads@epluribusmedia.org.

If you have a story you'd like to submit for publication as an ePluribus Media article in the Journal (as opposed to posting as a commentary on Community), submit it to editors@epluribusmedia.org.

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