Well, ok, part of the internet. Twitter in particular: Pew compared traditional public poll results with Twitter sentiment data around eight of the most significant political events over the last year, often finding significantly divergent results. According to Pew, in some instances — Barack Obama’s reelection, the first presidential debate and a federal court ruling…
In a big win not just for Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli but for Virginia taxpayers (to the tune of $300 million), the EPA has decided it will not appeal a court ruling that prohibited it from regulating stormwater as a pollutant: On January 3rd, federal judge Liam O’Grady accepted the arguments made by Attorney…
Politico: Are hashtags a political #wasteoftime? – More thought was probably put into the article than was needed for all of the hashtags it covers. Let hashtags happen. They’re attempts at political bumperstickers in a short attention span medium. For every twenty that flop one starts to trend. Gigaom: Can evil data scientists fool us…
The Jeffersoniads Blog Alliance Launces New Website Site to curate leading right-of-center political thought from Virginia bloggers Richmond, Va – March 4, 2013 – The Jeffersoniads Blog Alliance is pleased to announce the launch of its new website, The Jeffersoniads. The new website, launching Monday, March 4, 2013, will serve as a hub for The…
I was pretty blown away by this 6 minute clip. Watch it in full… and bear with me, because it makes a point: (1) Does the CEO of a major firm really work 380x more than folks on the lower end of this scale? (2) Wouldn’t a more robust and independent middle class inspire a…