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Smoot to be interviewed during live blog tonight

Sheila Smoot campaign imageBirmingham, AL-based political blog The Progressive Electorate plans to interview congressional candidate (and current Jefferson County CommissionerSheila Smoot this evening beginning at 8 p.m. on Daily Kos.

They’ve already posted three questions they plan to ask during the chat and they’re asking for folks to consider submitting others to the thread (thinking it means you may be able to submit your questions as comments to the post announcing tonight’s discussion too).

Photo: Courtesy of the candidate’s Fan Page on Facebook.

Birmingham prepares for the Second Front

The Second Front logoKyle Whitmire introduced a new political news blog to Birmingham, AL earlier today. The site, called The Second Front , is the first of several blogs that will make up a new site called Weld for Birmingham.

It’s a new venture for Whitmire (an award-winning columnist formerly of Birmingham Weekly ) and his former editor at the Weekly Glenny Brock, who contributed to the site’s first day of stories with a post about last week’s Design Review Committee decision involving Walgreens.

This section of Weld has already collected a lot of fans via Facebook and Whitmire has been tweeting using The Second Front‘s account for a couple of months now.

Wade Kwon was able to catch up with Whitmire by phone to find out more about the new blog and the overall site and shared the answers over on Media of Birmingham while Ike Pigott wrote earlier today about whether or not it is the online newspaper that Birmingham’s been waiting for.

An online manifesto for Alabama’s Magic City

Magic City Manifesto headerOne of the newest blogs to grace computer screens around metro Birmingham is Magic City Manifesto. L.K. Whitney recently started the blog in December after moving here from Charleston, SC. She describes the purpose of the site via a manifesto that says among other things:

“Magic City Manifesto is a personal journey to find the very best this city has to offer.”

Take a moment to check out how her journey’s going. A recent post should remind folks that there’s never a good excuse for saying that there’s nothing to do in Birmingham. You may even want to check out Whitney’s Twitter account too…

Find out when the flu hits Birmingham

So what do they do with all of that search data at Google? Well, apparently one of the things that they do is use it to attempt to estimate flu occurrences around the world, including Birmingham, AL.

Flu Trends is one of the projects that exist on Google.org – the company’s philanthropic arm – that appears to be quite accurate in figuring out when different parts of the country come down with the flu. Eerily so – but it looks like if the trend won’t be that bad for the rest of the year (at least, so far).

Screenshot: from Google.org

Follow the Birmingham Roundtable debate

We’ll update coverage of the debate here on the site and welcome your comments…

The Birmingham Roundtable Mayoral Debate

We’re in Memphis today for BarCamp

Trolleys in Memphis. acnatta/Flickr

Yes, you read that correctly. A better way to say it is that I’m in Memphis, TN today to be part of a community blogging panel discussion with Elizabeth Lemmonds of Memphis Connect and Morgan Levy and Christy Frink of Nashvillest at this year’s BarCamp Memphis.

If you’re interested in seeing what’s going on at the conference today and you’re on Twitter, look for the hashtag #bcmem. There’s also a Posterous site set up and I’m assuming that the session will be live streaming starting at 1 p.m. CT – it’s supposed to be on the Room 106 feed.

Photo: Trolleys in Memphis. acnatta/Flickr

Travelogue: Coverage after the Langford verdict

Larry Langford at the BJCC. Bob Farley/f8PhotoWord of the guilty verdict against former Birmingham mayor Larry Langford has spread through the media in the last 20+ hours. This would include a story filed last night during NPR‘s All Things Consideredthis report turned in by The New York Times‘ Shaila Dewan (it was on page 19 of Section A); this piece filed by HULIQ.com; even The Huffington Post decided to add their voice to the coverage. Bloomberg News chimed in too – along with the folks from WAFF sharing WBRC’s story with visitors to their website.

But wait, there’s more…

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