Posts Tagged: election


10
Nov 09

Daily Links for November 8th through November 10th

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).

  • Top 50 US Craft Brewers by Sales (MAP) | Sloshspot Blog – You may have seen the map we created earlier this year using the data from 2007 sales, and we now present the updated version with figures for 2008 sales. Once again, to be very clear, the rankings are determined by sales of those breweries that fit the criteria: small, independent and traditional (see the Brewers Association definition of Craft Brewers here). This is not a list of the best beers, so you won't see your local monastery that receives 101 bottles from Heaven each year. We also included some interesting information regarding recent brewery openings and closings.

23
Jun 09

On Twitter, the FTC, and Politics…

A couple of observations, which on the surface are barely related.

First, Twitter has really done nothing for the Iranian people, save giving them a place to speak.  The only other outcome has been dead Iranians.  Twitter alone is making the Iranian government do nothing other than crack down.  Hard.

In other news, the FTC is contemplating investigating blog payola, where some bloggers make compensated messages as advertising without disclosure.  The thought is that the few bloggers who are compensated have a disproportionate impact as opinion influencers.


12
Jun 09

Daily Links for June 12th


22
May 09

Politics, Threat Levels, and Torture

I’d really like to see how the developing torture timeline correlates to the historical political climate (with Bush’s approval ratings, news coverage, and web sentiment as proxies) and the periodic raising and lowering of the threat levels

Someone should make a chart or something.


7
May 09

Daily Links for May 7th


25
Mar 09

Daily Links for March 25th

  • Schneier on Security: Election Fraud in Kentucky – I think this is the first documented case of election fraud in the U.S. using electronic voting machines (there have been lots of documented cases of errors and voting problems, but this one involves actual maliciousness[.]
  • Great photographs of the economic crisis. – - Slate Magazine – Last week, Slate launched "Shoot the Recession," a project in which we asked our readers what the economic crisis looks like to them. The response on the photo-sharing site Flickr, where we set up a group page to collect your contributions, has been bullish. As of this writing, our Flickr pool is home to more than 160 pictures.

4
Dec 08

Daily Links for December 3rd


15
Nov 08

The ‘New’ New Math

A friend of mine forwarded me an email from a columnist by the name of Jack Tymann, detailing the share of votes Obama and McCain received from a variety of constituencies.  The gist of the numbers was that McCain LOST every demographic EXCEPT white males.

I thought back to Karl Rove’s interpretation of ‘the math’ and why he expected an outcome extremely different than the 2006 mid-term electoral results, famously quipping the following on NPR (via the Raw Deal):

“You may end up with a different math, but you’re entitled to your math,” Rove said. “I’m entitled to ‘the’ math.”

What led him to make the assumptions he made, and why were they wrong?  Rove believed that voters would respond to allegations of Democratic corruption, so that was the campaign he ran.  It also plays a role in the US Attorney Scandal as well as the prosecution and conviction (and subsequent appeal) of Alabama governor Bud Siegelmann.  It is quite possible that Rove was correct, and that the electorate did recognize corruption; Unfortunately, they had come to associate lawbreaking with the majority party and minority party.

I’m going to say that there may be far more simple indicators than black-box explanations of voter behavior. 


10
Nov 08

Daily Links for November 9th


6
Nov 08

Daily Links for November 5th

  • Obama’s Seven Lessons for Radical Innovators – Umair Haque – Barack Obama is one of the most radical management innovators in the world today. Obama's team built something truly world-changing: a new kind of political organization for the 21st century. It differs from yesterday's political organizations as much as Google and Threadless differ from yesterday's corporations: all are a tiny handful of truly new, 21st century institutions in the world today.

    Obama presidential bid succeeded, in other words, as our research at the Lab has discussed for the past several years, through the power of new DNA: new rules for new kinds of institutions.

    So let's discuss the new DNA Obama brought to the table, by outlining seven rules for tomorrow's radical innovators.

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