Patrickcooper.com is Patrick Cooper again, and it feels good
I'd like to announce the official end of the Birmingham mayoral election.
Yes, the legal challenges have been over for months, but I'm talking about the real issue. The search battle, which Amit first raised in October, is done. As of Saturday, Patrickcooper.com is once again Google's No. 1 result for "Patrick Cooper," with quotes or without.
Despite returning to the top, I don't plan to rest on my laurels — as comfortable as those laurels may be. (They're ticklish.) The fall's victorious candidate, SEC-probed Mayor Larry Langford, is still prone to mention his opponent. "According to Langford, the federal investigations into him are the evil machinations of his campaign opponent Patrick Cooper and, of course, the media," Birmingham Weekly's Kyle Whitmire writes this month. "It's all one great conspiracy. I'm still waiting on my black helicopter."
In greater seriousness, I'm also rooting for Birmingham's Terminal. After being kind and amused enough to link to this blog during the election, finances have run rough for the indie's efforts. I'm going to pick up a T-shirt. Please check out the site when you get a chance.
Nevermind on the search results
Update at 6:36 p.m. ET Wednesday: The quest goes on. Continuing his streak here, Amit brought me the bad news. My blogging about Cooper beating Patrick on the baby name list and the included mentions of other Patrick Coopers apparently put me over the top only temporarily.
May 27th, 2008 at 9:37 AM
Thanks for the kind words Patrick (and the t-shirt purchase).
I do hope that some of you take a moment to check out The Terminal. I also hope that some of you keep tabs on a conference that a few of us are working on down here for September called South by Deep South and in particular the WordCamp Birmingham track. There's a chance I may be living up there by then but I think it would be a great excuse to come on down and check out the Magic City for a minute (we may be having the first stages of an election again by then, you never know LOL).
Thanks again.
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:34 AM
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