Akkam’s Razor

• perspctv - A political dashboard for the 2008 Election across various online properties.
• Wordle - Kerry Speech - A word cloud from John Kerry's unexpectedly tough speech on McCain from the DNC.
• Daily Kos: State of the Nation: Word Clouds - Check these word clouds from the DNC speeches of Hillary, Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden.
• McCain+Bingo.jpg (image) - Make sure you have this available for the convention!
• Washingtonian’s Best & Worst of Congress - Capital Comment Blog (washingtonian.com) - Capital Hill aides rank the members of the House and Senate on criteria such as 'Meanest', 'Most likely to star in a scandal', and 'best and worst dressed'.

• Twelve Ways to Sell Social Media to Your Boss - You probably already get social media, and see its value, and think it’s really nifty cool. But if you can’t articulate the benefits and the return on the effort, and several other little details to the folks upstairs, it’s going to be hard to get your ideas moved from “wouldn’t this be great?” to “let’s assign a project manager and get started.” First and foremost, you have to jump over the fence from where you’re thinking, and get into their mindset.

In light of the first of the stimulus checks being deposited into Americans accounts, it is high time we discussed the previous old next new conservative outrage - Freeloaders!

Our friends on the right have quietly been condemning the freeloaders who will be receiving stimulus rebates, despite having paid no income tax, previously referred as Lucky Ducks in the Wall Street Journal (note how Awesome it is to be making $12k annually and paying no Federal Income Tax).

The Tax Foundation describes it thusly:

• Stephen on Drupal: Tutorial: Creating a group collaboration community with Drupal
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• Welcome, watchdog.net (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
  The goal is to be a hub, connecting citizens, activists, organizations, politicians, programmers, and everybody else who’s interested in politics.
  (tags: politics socialsoftware activism blogs social)
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  watchdog.net lets you find out what’s going on in politics and make your voice heard about it.
  (tags: politics government visualization activism)
• Pew Research Center: Where Trust is High, Crime and Corruption are Low
  Over the last two decades, social scientists have repeatedly suggested that good things tend to happen in societies where people tend to trust each other
  (tags: trust society social research politics government)

Michael Barone said the following as posted in an article on Real Clear Politics: