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et al.: compare Clinton and Obama CNN opening statements

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Back by popular demand (I actually have gotten a lot of hits on my prior word clouds of Presidential campaign and bin Laden statements…), here’s a comparison of Clinton’s and Obama’s opening statements for the Thursday night CNN debate.
Obviously, in such short statements (Clinton, 104 words; Obama, 79) you ain’t gonna get any incredibly insightful […]

et al.: if things are as grim as they are here, the solution!

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Don’t know how things are in your neck of the woods, but here in the Hub of the Universe, it’s a cold, miserable, rainy day. My initial impulse was to put the blanket over my head and go to sleep (OK, I actually did for a while), but then my 12-yr. old turned me on […]

et al.: Google search

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Oops. Just checking my hit counter, and found that someone had clicked through after a Google search for  Stephenson scandal.  Ummm, none that I’m aware of….

et al.: desperate plea for help: please help me increase truthiness

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Yes, the rumors ARE true: my favorite Patriot (no, not those Patriots..) and erstwhile presidential candidate, Stephen Colbert, is now “following” me on Twitter.
A high honor, indeed, but one, dear reader, that entails effort on my part. I refer, of course, to the imperative that I increase this blog’s TRUTHINESS. Lord knows, I have […]

et al.: lest we forget why today is a holiday

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Lest we forget why today is a national holiday (not to mention MLK’s less-remembered leadership in opposition to the Vietnam War !)– and you can bet that if he’d lived, he’d be in the front lines of opposition to the Iraq travesty.
Tell a friend:

Technorati tags: Martin Luther King Jr. civil rights racism March […]

et al.: Site redesign courtesy of Lolinator

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

I belatedly realized, due to the good people at Lolinator, that my blog design was both “cat-hostile” and was poorly edited.  Now it’s been redesigned, and I hope that you (not to mention your cat) will appreciate the changes.

et al.: Oh happy day!

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

I’m so grateful: my son has returned from Iraq (of course, if McCain is elected, there’s a good chance that he’ll go back during the 100 years we’ll be involved there…), and starts at the Pentagon in strategy and policy on Feb. 1.

et al.: that’s my boy!!

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Oops! just popped the buttons on my shirt, burstin’ with pride about my first-born, Major Alexander Stephenson, who the Boston Globe profiled this Sunday in their West regional edition.
They did it because of the Soldiers Helping Those in Need-Iraq program to buy new blankets (come on, folks, who can’t afford $6.75??) which volunteer troops then […]

et al.: Neat: real-time, blog-based primary coverage!

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Thanks to Blue Gal for passing this on: real-time, blog-based primary coverage! Hope it includes Twitter tweets from the polls, as in Iowa. Real-time is the name of the game in everything from voting to homeland security and publicdata
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Technorati tags: e-democracy crowd-sourcing wisdom of crowds crowdsourcing smart mobs swarm intelligence […]

et al.: word cloud comparison of Obama/Clinton Iowa remarks

Monday, January 7th, 2008

I thought it might be illustrative as we head into the last day of the New Hampshire campaign to do a side-by side comparison of Many Eyes word clouds (vs. tag clouds…) I created of Obama’s and Clinton’s remarks after the Iowa caucuses, to see which words they emphasized. This, in turn, might highlight differences […]

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