11 month ago
Andy Baio : 4chan manipulates all 21 top results on the TIME 100 Poll - not content to just push Moot to the top, they rearranged the results to spell a message
deusx : Precision Hacking « Music Machinery - "Not only has the poll been swamped to promote Moot (the pseudonym of the creator of 4chan, an image board and the birthpace for many internet memes) as the most influential of people, the poll crashers have manipulated the order of all the other nom
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philgyford : Doodle: Easy Scheduling - Another way to arrange group events. (via Haddock)
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Rod Begbie : If the World Could Vote | ForeignPolicy.com - How the electoral college of "the world" would vote. Unlike most of the other online polls, this at least has an ounce of statistical rigour to it. Also interesting: Which countries think the US presidential choice will have an effect on them. [via] #
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22 month ago
Andy Baio : FiveThirtyEight, weighted electoral projections - from a guy who specializes in baseball stats; looks like a good dashboard [via]
Greg Storey : Electoral projections done right. - There are several principal ways that the [our] methodology differs from other poll compilations.
Linkorama : FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right
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34 month ago
gleuschk : One-Third of Americans Believe the Bible is Literally True - down slightly from 25 years ago, but still an embarrassingly high number
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43folders : Poll: 'IM-ing' divides teens, adults - Yahoo! News - "About a fifth of teen IM users have used IM to ask for or accept a date. Almost that many, 16 percent, have used it to break up with someone."
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64 month ago
plasticbag : Vaughn pulls out of these new weblog award things because he doesn't like the company - Like much of what's been happening online, I've completely missed the '2004 weblog awards' (no relation to the Bloggies). I think this one emerged from the mostly right-wing ex-warblogger politico community/ecosystem...
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66 month ago
Nelson Minar : Kerry: 291 Bush: 247 - Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004
Rod Begbie : Election 2008: Presidential, Senate and House Races Updated Daily - electoral-vote.com is back up and running, and tracking polls prior to the primaries. I'm now following it with approximately the intensity I was tracking the AL East in September! #
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