Pollsters Turn to Introspection in Face of Results that Surprised Them

"American Association for Public Opinion Research, the national professional organization for pollsters, convened a committee to study what went wrong with these pre-election polls and how to bolster future accuracy. The team of industry leaders plans to release its findings...

"Net Neutrality" bill is introduced into U.S. House and a snappy movie to boot

Use the Internet to save the Internet. On my sabbatical, I'll be doing research on the life of Harry Skornia, a media reform pioneer, and in the meantime, I've sent this to my elected representatives. The trouble is, I live in the bluest of the blue part of a blue state, and...

Distilling the Wisdom of the Crowds...

Jeff Jarvis, buzzmachine.com set up a down and dirty survey using Google forms. This will be an interesting app to experiment with. Jeff's about journalism has some interesting results though it isn't tabulated well. He says it only took him a couple minutes to set up, so...

Wonkette's take on Ron Paul's departure from the race

I'm with Wonkette. Wondering about all the money his supporters donated. What did they get for their money? Where does the money go? "The note was posted at 10:14 p.m., probably Central Time. It starts with an old-fashioned freedom-loving salutation (“Whoa!”) and ends...

Mr. Dippy Recommends this and I do too

I suppose I'm the last one to "discover" this video of Obama's words put to music. Mr. Dippy said it was good, as did my pal Mindy, so I looked. See for yourself. ""      

This is where my site needs to go next. How about yours?

Rob Curley, news website visionary wrote this in a longer piece that is part of a recent Nieman Report. The giant relational database and geocoding are what http://creatingcommunityconnections.org needs next..."An interesting attribute of these local guides is that the entire...

RFID : Promoting efficiency or Stealing our Privacy?

Wired has a rather long story about RFID or radio frequency I.D. tags and technology. Passive tags might become the new barcode and be an efficient way to control inventory and production. The RFID tags with power transmit all kinds of information to anyone with a "sniffer"...

Research Details the Impact of Blogs on MSM Journalism

Blogs speed up the news cycle and influence the tone and editorial direction of stories according to a survey of US journalists conducted by Brodeur. The study notes that "“It appears that reporters are using blogs more for ethnographic research than they are for...