After reading a TechRepublican Second Cup every weekday and the bloggers briefing round-ups for the past few weeks I felt it appropriate to promote Joe Mansour as the new managing editor of TechRepublican. Fortunately, he's accepted.

For his "day" job, Joe works alongside me at DAG helping manage projects, clients, setting up (and playing) the Wii, bills (and other paper with numbers), sub-contractors, office things that I still don't want to know about, intern screening, and everything else that falls in between. Of course, I'd be remiss not to note that he still finds time to volunteer for Slatecard.

The TechRepublican community is always shifting and changing with regard to its contributors and that's important. It keeps the contributions and the voices fresh. The value of TechRepublican is the low-barrier of entry it offers to any Republican who wants to be a participatory voice in our ongoing effort. If you want to be a contributor, shoot me a note (david.all AT techrepublican.com).

However, promoting Joe to serve as the managing editor will help add another long-term consistent voice to the discussion which will add value to the effort.

Hi, Joe. Keep up the good work. (Yes, we've noticed.)