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Wikipedia Edits Forecast Vice Presidential Picks
JimLane writes "The Washington Post reports on the findings of Cyveillance, a company that 'normally trawls the Internet for data on behalf of clients seeking open source information in advance of a corporate acquisition, an important executive hire, or brand awareness.' Cyveillance decided 'on a lark' to test its methods by monitoring the Wikipedia biographies of Vice-Presidential prospects. The conclusion? If you'd been watching Wikipedia you might have gotten an advance tipoff of Friday's announcement that McCain was selecting Sarah Palin. 'At approximately 5 p.m. ET (Thursday), the company's analysts noticed a spike in the editing traffic to Palin's Wiki page, and that some of the same Wiki users appeared to be making changes to McCain's page.'" The article goes on to say that watching Wikipedia pages for the Democratic VP hopefuls would have tipped Obama's choice of Biden, as well. NPR also has coverage (audio).
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Palin is still a ReThuglican Jew Puppet cunt!
Another 4 years of that Jew Puppet Bu$Hitler Chimpy McHaliburtin
I am sure her down syndrome kid will make a good ReThuglican. It is already smaller than Chimpy the Jew Boy.
Vote for Hope
Vote for Change
Vote for Obama.
McCain: " I'll let you be the vice president if you fuck me. Hold on while I get my Viagra."
Palin: " Okay, but don't go too deep. George W. Bush gave me the same promise last time and the kid came out retarded. The bastard didn't even let me be an intern, much less vice president.
McCain: " Hold still while I hand-feed it into your butt while mah lil' blue pill kicks in."
Palin: " UNH!"
I can't understand this obsession with politics. It doesn't make any difference (I's white, so I don't use the double negative before the word difference) to most people who is their 'leader' in Washington DC. I wish that they would all simply disappear. Or at least, just shut up. There are so many things that are more important and more interesting than DC politics. Political reporting of the same non-story over-and-over day-after-day is a cheap but acceptable way to avoid doing any real reporting on real stories.
Fox is the worst, of course, but they are easy to avoid. NPR radio can be really hard to take sometimes with their endless number of over-educated middle-aged white women with grating metallic voices (shit, I almost said Jewish, but I didn't, caught myself just in time. My problem is with over-educated, over-bearing, insufferable middle-aged middle-class women of all ethnicities on the radio. And yes, that includes you, Ms. Elaine Butterworth-Berkowitz-Hernandez of WGBH Bahstahn, even if you were so hot in high school in Amherst back in the 1970s And the women come and go, talking of Michelanglo...)
NPR spent MILLIONs of hours in the 1990s endlessly covering the Israeli-Palestine thing. They were under the illusion that that (note the conjuction vs. indirect pronoun transposition, grammar Nazis) was somehow important. And they completely missed the biggest story of the decade, the rise of Asia and especially Shanghai from a dumpy seaport to one of the most important cities in the world.
So what are they missing now? What's the opportunity cost of all this insufferable coverage of minor insects like Joe Biden and this Alaskan twit? What's the big story of the decade that we're not hearing about?