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[Oldfashionedpatriot.blogspot.com] Old Fashioned Patriot: The polls, this year, are more important than most because many communities have bought the Republican Diebold machines without a paper trail so the only validation they have to the easily hackable Diebold systems are opinion polls. That, sadly, is why opinion polls matter more now than in the past and why a biased poll is dangerous;
[Radar.oreilly.com] O'Reilly Radar > Tim O'Reilly: Chris Anderson famously named the long tail-- the idea that in the internet era, success belongs to companies that can address the end of the demand curve that is populated by millions of low-volume products, rather than a small number of high-volume products. Last year, noodling on the long tail concept, Rael Dornfest somewhat waggishly pointed out that there's an analogous phenomenon on the front end of product creation, which he called "the long snout." That is, there are millions of emergent products and technologies that may or may not catch on (consider the fact that there are over 100,000 projects on sourceforge alone), and that we needed a lightweight way to document and present information about those projects, so we could start publishing about them early on, and track them up the development curve as well as the demand curve.
[Polybius.blogs.com] The Command TOC: War in Iraq: In the national debate over whether we should be in Iraq or not, the right wing has done a masterful job of redirecting the conversation to a minutia/semantic discussion that has little to do with the big picture. For example, rather than acknowledging that the US has engaged in a horrible display of torture and mistreatment of prisoners (Gitmo, Iraq and Afghanistan prisons), they misdirected the national discussion to whether Newsweek was accurate or not when they said a Koran was flushed down the toilet.
[Freerepublic.com] Keyword: are warbloggers in the Middle East, like Michael Totten, who blogs from Beirut, with occasional sidetrips to Egypt, Turkey, and Iraq, or Michael Yon, who served as a war correspondent via blog, or Bill Roggio, who embedded himself for a while with a U.S. combat unit in Iraq. Back here in the States, there are plenty of people making money the older-fashioned way, without being shot at.
[Yourish.com] Archives | January 11-17 2004 | Yourish.com: Ya'alon noted during a visit to the Armored Corps School on Tuesday that the American offensive in Iraq had caused Iran to agree to reveal its nuclear capabilities, Libya to relinquish its weapons of mass destruction projects, and was the driving force behind Syrian President Bashar Assad's call for peace.
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Iraq, Iraq Reviews
