Posts Tagged: liberal


3
Feb 10

Daily Links for January 15th through February 3rd

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


  • The Future of Search: Social Relevancy Rank – What we are about to get is a Social Relevancy Rank. Whenever you search streams of activity, the results will be ordered not chronologically but by how relevant each is to you based on your social graph. That is, people who matter more to you will bubble up. How does this work? Well, there will be a formula, just as there is a formula for Page Rank.

20
Nov 09

Daily Links for November 18th through November 20th

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

  • How Food Preferences Vary by Political Ideology – The data in this report shows a consistent pattern for conservatives to trend towards “homey”, familiar, comfort foods and meat-heavy options. They are more likely than liberals to indulge in fast food and enjoy splurges like cheeseburgers, hot dogs, deep dish pizza and sugar soda. Their idea of international food is a “mainstream” option such as Italian.Liberals are more likely to be adventuresome eaters, choosing international options such as Japanese or Thai. They eat fast food less frequently than conservatives, and when they do splurge on fast food they have a tendency to favor specialty, regional chains. Liberals are more likely to be vegetarians and to choose healthier options such as whole grain bread, darker greens of lettuce, and more frequent servings of fruit.

2
Aug 09

Daily Links for August 2nd

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


28
May 09

Daily Links for May 28th


4
May 09

Daily Links for May 4th

  • New Statesman – Caught in the net – The politics of the counterculture had long been eclipsed, but its central idea of bringing about direct communication between peers outside of the reach of authority survived intact. In the course of just a few years at the beginning of this century, as broadband connections became widespread and opened up a permanent window on the web, many of us took to zoning out at work or disappearing into the spare room at home to spend hours watching or communicating with one another online. No longer content with passively absorbing information on the internet, we began to set up our own castles on its turf.

28
Apr 09

Daily Links for April 27th through April 28th

  • mental_floss Blog » Flu Epidemic vs. Flu Pandemic: What’s the Difference? – A “flu pandemic,” however, does mean that Pestilence has moved in and is setting up shop. A flu pandemic has two main characteristics: That it’s a new strain of the virus, meaning that few people, if any, have resistance to it, and that it’s managed to work its way to more than one continent.

8
Apr 09

Daily Links for April 8th

  • How Obama Is Using the Science of Change – TIME – The existence of this behavioral dream team — which also included best-selling authors Dan Ariely of MIT (Predictably Irrational) and Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein of the University of Chicago (Nudge) as well as Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman of Princeton — has never been publicly disclosed, even though its members gave Obama white papers on messaging, fundraising and rumor control as well as voter mobilization. All their proposals — among them the famous online fundraising lotteries that gave small donors a chance to win face time with Obama — came with footnotes to peer-reviewed academic research. "It was amazing to have these bullet points telling us what to do and the science behind it," Moffo tells TIME. "These guys really know what makes people tick."

12
Mar 09

Daily Links for March 11th through March 12th

  • Pew Research Center: Candidate to President – America's impression of Barack Obama has changed substantially from his time on the campaign trail last fall to his current position in the Oval Office. When asked what one word best described candidate Obama in September 2008, the most-common response was "inexperienced." When asked for their impression of President Obama in February 2009, more Americans used words such as intelligent (the most frequently used one-word descriptor), honest, confident and smart, and fewer used words like inexperienced, young, new and change.

23
Oct 06

Is your Congressperson a Rubber Stamp for Bush?

There's a couple of great tables over at Congressional Quarterly that provide you with the results of 35 Roll Call votes, and demonstrate via scores for 2006 and 2005 the unity between that Representative or Congressman and President Bush.  There's some other data that can be gleaned as well. 


1
Nov 05

Air America::Eject! Eject! Eject!

WFMU’s BOTB (beware of the blog) discusses what looks to be more fatal missteps for Air America (liberal radio). Let’s be honest, the left doesn’t use the radio – that’s for the ditto heads – I’d rather read a blog, a newspaper, listen to NPR (dOh! Radio!), or watch the BBC then listen to some talking pundit shill – that’s for the dittoheads and freepers.

Point is, the left is bottom-up, and mass media radio IS NOT bottom-up distribution, it’s top-down, and it’s what makes lefties (or non-righties) cringe to think that they’re getting there marching orders out of their car stereo. I prefer radio programming that leaves me asking questions, not delivering me self-affirming answers. Air America, in it’s current format, deserves to, and will fail.

  • Meta

  • Pages

  • Statcounter


    View My Stats