Three Third-Party Tools We Use to Build Better Websites (1)
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At NMC, we pride ourselves on providing our clients with powerful websites...I think our homepage headline makes that pretty clear. In building powerful websites, we recognize that it's not always necessary for us to "reinvent the wheel." By being willing to plug in other applications to our sites, we avoid having to custom develop certain complex elements of the site, thus saving us time and saving our clients money. It's not necessary for us to ...
Web Traffic Spikes: When You Need Attention NOW | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network (9)
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Jonathon D. Colman, The Nature Conservancy So tell me if this scenario sounds familiar: Your ED wanders into your office asking that you build an online marketing campaign to publicize a large-scale announcement. When's this big announcement taking place? Tomorrow. What's the marketing budget? Nada. But don't worry: thanks to online social news networks, you've got the perfect hammer in your tool belt for this crisis. The rise of "web 2.0" has forever changed the ...
Management Secrets Of Barack Obama (7)
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Why is there not In the land of Obama only more than A hint of drama? Barack Obama's presidential campaign is a sight to behold for many reasons, but among the least appreciated is its allergy to the disunity and spatting that generally convulses even the most successful of endeavors. Obama, who never managed so much as a newsstand, has turned out to be a fairly remarkable leader of a what's becoming a billion dollar ...
McCain Campaign Uses Online Spider To Ambush Obama (41)
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The politicos' mutual stalking has reached unprecedented new levels this year: At least one side has started to spider the other's campaign web site to track that campaign pages' precise word changes up to an hourly basis. John McCain's campaign published a side-by-side comparison of Barack Obama's Iraq War policy web pages on Tuesday using a new automated online tracking service called Versionista. The service, which launched two months ago, allows users to track and ...
Google's Cool Campaign Tool (4)
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Check this out -- Google's speech recognition technologies will now scour YouTube's politician channels for specific words or phrases. So if you want to look up Barack Obama's promise to withdraw troops "immediately," just search for it.
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sc said:
pretty awesome, except the fact that it's a gadget is annoying.
"In their own words": political videos meet Google speech-to-text technology (87)
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Posted by Arnaud Sahuguet and Ari Bezman, Product ManagersIn this U.S. election year, what information could be more important than the candidates' own words to describe their views, actions and platforms?Our teams have been working to develop tools to make it easier for people to track election-related information. A few months back, YouTube encouraged everyone to participate in the discussion process through the CNN/YouTube debates, Google Checkout offered an easy and fast way for individuals ...
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Today, the Google speech team (part of Google Research) is launching the Google Elections Video Search gadget, our modest contribution to the electoral process. With the help of our speech recognition technologies, videos from YouTube's Politicians channels are automatically transcribed from speech to text and indexed.
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Jarvitron said:
This is unbelievably great.
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annacoder said:
yet to try this.... but, boy O boy O boy!
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Ans said:
way to cool...
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Jorge said:
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm Speech-to-text. Tendrá asistencia humana? (todos los productos de este tipo que conozco la tienen).
The Table: Iraq, McCain, And Independence (1)
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Labour Cynically Exploit Tributes to Gwyneth for Data Mining (1)
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Guy Fawkes' blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy (10)
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The readiness of New Labour to cynically exploit the goodwill of Gwyneth Dunwoody's constituents (where she had a significant following) hit a low with the hasty announcement that Labour will rush the election in record time. Now they have been caught milking tributes for partisan advantage.The official local party website invites you to leave a tribute to her - nothing wrong with that. Guido cynically wondered why the online tribute form asks not only for ...
Kick in the Balls (1)
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This is pretty addictive - a role playing game. Once you master the keyboard skills you (as Jack Straw) can head butt, kick, punch, round house, upper cut, right hook, elbow on jump on Ed Balls. The parliamentary web-servers are overloaded with players this morning...This game has been produced by Her Majesty's Official Opposition. The Guidoisation of democracy continues...
LA-06: Republicans seriously concerned (1)
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At least, that's what the Wall Street Journal is saying. Apparently, the GOP is unhappy with nominee Woody Jenkins, despite his solid right-wing credentials (with endorsements from the Club for Growth and Family Research Council), and they're debating how strongly to back their special-election nominee in an R+6.5 district. Still, there is little enthusiasm for Mr. Jenkins among congressional Republicans, who view him as a second-tier candidate in what should be an easy victory for ...
The Angriest Man in the Blogosphere (1)
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The title of this post derives from: a) a somewhat unfair Mark Bowden essay in The Atlantic criticizing “The Wire” Creator David Simon, and b) Simon’s reputation for showing up in the comments of blogs that discuss his show. Simon is probably far too busy preparing his next HBO project — “Generation Kill,” set for July — to respond this time. But if he reads this, he should know I consider his conflicted love letter ...
Lost in McCainSpace (1)
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A little over a year ago, I wrote a deservedly unkind and undeservedly lengthy post about John McCain’s social network-in-name-only. It was essentially just a personalized donation page, glorified by its socnet-ish name: McCainSpace. Or MyMcCain. That part hadn’t been sorted out by its launch. In any case, that was then. I hadn’t been back since (who thought back then there would be a McCain campaign right now?) and recently decided that a follow-up might ...
The Fall of the Report of Drudge (1)
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This morning I spoke to a group of journalism interns at the Washington Center for Politics and Journalism, along with David All. Now in its 19th year, the program run by Terry Michael is a special one for me: it’s what brought me to Washington in the first place. I’m not sure whether I’m a success story or a cautionary tale, as I’ve heard Terry ruefully note how many of his alumni eventually leave traditional ...
My Top 75 Political Books (1)
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GQ Magazine has published it's Top 100 political books (not online), so I thought as it's Easter I'd follow suit. These are all books I have read and enjoyed, many of which will be familiar to you, but some may not be. The list includes some political fiction too. If you click on the title of each book, you'll get through to the Amazon page about the book. Do feel free to discuss your own ...
Governor PBJ wanted Ethics Board Chair to be Exec. Counsel (1)
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The Reduct Box caught it, and CenLamar fleshed it out a bit. They key information, as pointed by CenLamar, and written by The Reduct Box: As the Jindal administration fights to strip Ethics Board Chief Hank Perret and his board of the power to adjudicate ethics charges, Jindal transition leader, treasurer, fine pony-upper and secret 527 front group head Rolfe McCollister courted the very same Hank Perret for the job of executive counsel, a post ...
Will Database-Driven Targeting Help Campaigns Connect and Survive? (1)
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e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics (9)
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Hidden in a Post article today on the presidential campaigns’ precarious financial shape was this remark: Ken Mehlman, who helped plan President Bush’s reelection strategy four years ago, said each campaign is trying to isolate demographic groups and geographic areas to target with phone calls and mail. Think about it: if you’re running out of money, one way to save (besides cutting the press plane) is to microtarget your outreach so that you can get ...
LA-04: With McCrery Out, Democrats Can Seize Opportunity (1)
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CenLamar: On Life in Louisiana (4)
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During the first week of December 2007, Louisiana Congressman Jim McCrery (R-Leesville) announced that he will not be seeking re-election in 2008. When he was first elected in 1988, McCrery was only the sixth Republican to represent Louisiana since Reconstruction. District 4 encompasses all of Northwest Louisiana, including, most notably, Shreveport, Natchitoches, and Bossier City, and although the district has remained under Republican representation throughout the past twenty years, there is ample evidence to suggest ...
Awesome Dragonslaying (1)
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The city hands out yet another management contract to a politically connected firm for basically performing the functions of downsized city departments and that champion of Ethics In Government, Clancy Dubos rushes in to tell us why this is a "Smart Move".Clancy's point here seems to be, "Well somebody has to do this job" and that's hard to argue with. But there are reasons why we've reached a point where they can say that. Plus, ...
