Author Archives: Stuart G. Hall

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Track the US 2008 elections with Wonkosphere

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If you like following the US election, you’ll love this:

“We are happy to announce the launch of  Wonkosphere.com, a free web service which helps you stay on top of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Race. Wonkosphere tracks over 1000 political blogs and web sites to provide timely and unbiased analysis of the 2008 Presidential race. Wonkosphere measures the buzz share and tone for each candidate every four hours, and highlights the most representative and influential posts. Crawdad’s patented text analysis technology provides the engine behind Wonkosphere.”

Related Reading

Analysing the Bush team’s words after 9/11
A previous blog post on this blog which also references a report from Crawdad Technologies, who produce Wonkosphere.

Facebook founder apology over ads

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“The founder of social networking site Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to users for the way it launched a social advertising system.”BBC.

Seems odd that this mistake was made when surely the avowed core philosophy of a user-centric social networking site like Facebook is that it’s ‘user-driven’? I hesitate to say this but if they can make such an obvious error it doesn’t bode well in the long run.