When John Hawkins ran his first look at conservative women and dating, I sent a note asking if I had missed a memo and not realized it was sweeps week. It was such an odd post that I assumed our sites were being judged on sex appeal that week. The response
During our trip to London a week ago, Micah Sifry and I were invited to sit in on a live webcast by Brian Paddick who is running for Mayor of London as a Liberal Democrat. The Lib Dems, despite the name, are really not the equivalent of the progressives in
A bill on its way to the President’s desk will prevent employers and insurance companies from using genetic indicators in hiring or coverage. The President is expected to sign it.
The legislation’s passage could make consumers and patients more willing to have their DNA tested for disease-indicators, which could swing the door wide-open
I’m heading to a lunch time meeting today and jumped in the back of a cab. The driver of said cab is clearly agitated. We begin chatting and he quickly explains the reason for his consternation. It seems he’s the target of accusations of racial discrimination.
While doing his rounds one afternoon,
I’ve spent most of the last 12 hours listening to various pundits predict this protracted Democrat campaign will weaken the eventual nominee in the fall. Some sort of voter fatigue will befall the electorate who will then be less inclined to vote for the Democrats in November. The Democrats, fractured by the race,
One thing I found interesting about the UK is their soft drink selection and the specific contents of those drinks.
I have found Coke products everywhere, but have not seen any Pepsi. As I’m a rabid fan of Pepsi, this was one of the few downsides to the trip.
Forced to drink Coke
I’m sitting at Heathrow waiting for my flight. It’s been an interesting few days in England and I’ve had a really good time. The conference was really interesting for the odd dichotomy that it was – an exploartion of web 2.0 by people firmly entrenched in a 1.0 world.
I find London to be quite nice.
(cross posted at TechPresident)
I’m in the second morning session at Politics: We 2.0. Paul Zube from Michigan State is walking us through an analysis of candidate use of MySpace versus their own websites. His assumption was the campaigns, which are control/image oriented would be able to serve less interactive content via
(cross posted at TechPresident.com)
Micah Sifry is busy covering the session focused almost entirely on the 2004 Dean campaign, so I decided to pop into a session focused, at least in theory, on analyses of practical applications of technology.
Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon explored the ways in which web sites – primarily blogs in her analysis
(cross posted at TechPresident.com)
Gaines & Mondak: The Friend of My Friend is My Friend? Ideological Clustering on Facebook
Session 1 of the Politics: Web 2.0 Conference brings us to an examination of Facebook and clustering of ideological types and research done by Brian Gaines and Jeff Mondak