“Our sweepers were empowered to ‘dismiss’ certain reports.”* – Twitter Vote Report’s “Lead Sweeper” The Twitter Vote Report was promoted as a “non-partisan, all-volunteer network” in which voters with cell phones and accounts on the micro-blogging site Twitter could text message or post voting experiences. An analysis of the Twitter Vote Report shows, however, that [...]
November 4, 2008
I knew I was sunk when I went from a mental fence-sitter to a relatively quiet advocate of a certain presidential candidate. I didn’t set up a protest outside of my house, though. Despite my asserted virtue (however ill thought at times) of not taking sides in many matters, there are of course many things [...]
August 30, 2008
“The ideologies of the left and right took shape before Darwin, before Mendel, before anyone knew what a gene or a neuron or a hormone was. Every student of political science is taught that political ideologies are based on theories of human nature. Why must they be based on theories that are three hundred years [...]
November 9, 2008
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