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GOP Social Studies
It’s not that retail politics is for losers in the Republican presidential primary race, but the candidates stumping hardest in Iowa and New Hampshire – Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry – are generally polling lowest. (Exception that … Continue reading
Romney-Vous Français?
An outfit called AmericanLP has launched an ad campaign sure to please the Freedom Fries set. The liberal Super PAC’s TV spot features footage of Mitt Romney speaking French in a promotional video for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Superimposed at … Continue reading
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Tagged 2002 Winter Olympics, AmericanLP, freedom fries set, Le Figaro, Mitt Romney, TechPresident, TJ Walker
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Open Softwar Over Anti-Piracy Legislation On Capitol Hill
Wednesday’s New York Times and Wall Street Journal featured this full-page ad opposing the PROTECT IP Act and Stop Online Piracy Act currently being considered by Congress. And it’s not just those Internet bigwigs who are protesting the proposed legislation. … Continue reading
World Without Facebook
Via techPresident: Artist Ian Wojtowicz has created the UnFacebook World Map, a composite of the NASA Earth at Night map and Facebook’s Friendship Map (Click to enlarge.) Those were the days, eh?
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Tagged Earth at Night, Facebook, Friendship Map, NASA, TechPresident
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The Warren Watch (pat. pending)
Lots of media action around Elizabeth Warren – good, bad, and . . . unattractive (ugly is such an ugly word). The good: This largely laudatory profile in Vanity Fair. The bad (for Tim Geithner): This flashback via techPresident. This … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Viral Video Edition)
Up to now, the hardworking staff has limited The Rumpus to paid advertising in print or on television (still waiting on our first radio spot). But as this piece from techPresident notes, online video advertising is a growth industry in … Continue reading
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Tagged Beloved Leader, online video advertising, Politico, Rick Perry, TechPresident
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“Is Rick Perry Gay?”
Plug “is rick perry” into the Googletron, techPresident says, and “is rick perry gay” is the top search phrase in Google Select: Fun! But true? The hardworking staff tried it ourselves and came up with the same result. TechPresident even … Continue reading
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Tagged Google Select, Googletron, is mitt romney mormon, is rick perry gay, TechPresident, Web Seer
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Facehook In Missouri
Last year the hardworking staff noted the controversy over what the Boston Herald called on its front page: ACEBOOK FLAP Herald lede: Teachers could be disciplined or fired for friending students on Facebook and school administrators would be encouraged to … Continue reading
‘Twistory’ Lesson For UMass Professor
From TechPresident: University of Massachusetts political science professor Stuart W. Shulman has built software for doing textual analysis on large amounts of data. So when he saw an explosion of Twitter activity around the death of Osama bin Laden, he … Continue reading
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Tagged Library of Congress, Stuart W. Shulman, TechPresident, textifier, The New Yorker, Tweets from Tahrir, Twistory, Twitter
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