Election 2008

After the first day of games, my brackets are doing OK but not great with my “wisdom of the crowds” methodology.  (See here for an explanation of this experiment.) The crowd did make 3 mistakes however: #7 Texas Tech lost to #10 BC, #7 Indiana beat #10 Gonzaga, and #11 VCU beat #6 Duke.  So…

Patrick Ruffini draws attention to President Obama’s election pledge to shed some light on the legislative process by posting legislation to the White House web site and permitting 5 days of public comment before signing.

The page view is (nearly) dead.  That’s the drum that Steve Rubel has been beating for some time.  And he’s right, but for the wrong reason.  His argument is that new technologies like AJAX and less new ones that are used more frequently today, like Flash, prevent most web analytics programs from accurately accounting for…

I recently wrote “8 Ways to Maximize Media Monitoring ROI” that we’re distributing for free on behalf of CustomScoop.  The subtitle is “How PR and Marketing Pros Can Go Beyond Tracking Company Mentions and Press Release Coverage to Improve ROI.” And that’s really what the guide is all about.  In the 7 years that I have…

Greg Mitchell offers an excerpt of his new book Why Obama Won at Huffington Post. In it, he attempts to explain the new state of politics. This excerpt poses the essential question that Mitchell attempts to explore: How did sites with names like Politico and FiveThirtyEight and Eschaton and Crooks and Liars and “HuffPo” collectively…