Oh, am I happy. Here’s where I’ll be, every day, for at least some little period of time: xRank on Politicians.
Every pollster and political consultant will like this – and okay, just plain political junkies anywhere, in this heightened political campaign year. Politicians themselves will also want to check out their up/down arrow (Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine was hot “with a bullet” for a while because of the Obama VP rumors, but he’s falling now; John Edwards love-child stories are hot-hot-hot! right now). Check it out yourself.
xRank has been live for a while with celebrities’ names – but who cared about that? Politicians – ah, good stuff. Maybe we’ll give geeks their Andy Warhol moment and add technologists soon 🙂
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Invisibility, Mind-Control, Great Coffee, and a New OS
http://www.MojaveExperiment.com
Lots of interest and blogoshere commentary beginning about “The Mojave Experiment.”
The reaction is reminiscent of one of those Obama or McCain provocative ads posted online, generating far more attention and buzz than the attention they get on the natural by being broadcast.
Sure, it’s a sales pitch, and pretty narrowly geeky at that (thanks GoogleFight!).
But at least it’s an innovative one – as the Wall Street Journal puts it today, “Give Microsoft people credit: They did it with humor, and they weren’t afraid to air the negative stuff.”
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