Red County: One of the Balls in the Air

OK, so I mentioned yesterday that I'm dropping the Pub due to time constraints (apparent here, this being my first post today-- less than an hour before the close). Here's one of the balls in the air: www.redcounty.com

The plan behind Red County has always been to make it a national network of local political content...some national commentary to tie it together, but the thing that should make it unique is its sweeping local coverage, and if can grow to 100+ active local blogs, we should have a traffic monster on our hands.

I also happen to be one of the original investors in it. Well, its founder and the other investors there approached Jim Slagle and me late last year to see if greenfaucet would be interested in taking it over (it wasn't exactly flourishing). At first we said no-- too busy. They re-approached us a few weeks later and because we had been chewing on it in the interim (and how well it would fit with greenfaucet), we said yes the next time around.

So, we had to put a big effort behind a redesign (if you've never seen it before, the old RC website was more than a bit disjointed). And we've had to put some effort/thinking into the entire business which is fairly sprawling given the number of contributors, relationships, etc.

Anyway, I'm still devoting some of my time to Red County--despit the fact I currently have no time to spare-- and probably will be for a bit. I'm the guy here with the political connections, and I need to make use of them on behalf of Red County at this early stage to be sure we get all of the national hitters on board.

I invested similar time in greenfaucet when it was young, but now I interact with it very little because Slagle runs it and has it humming. Red County will eventually get to that point, too, but for now it needs my attention.

Check out Red County, both now and over time to see how it evolves. It will become one of the most important political websites in existence.

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