Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
I remark briefly on the commentary “how smart is Palin,” noting her mispronunciation of “verbiage” and “pundit.” I’d suggest that observers be wary of assessing qualifications based on this kind of thing. Example: one very well-educated person I know, whose IQ is high enough to qualify enough for Mensa, mispronounces several words because he was [...]
From triumph to terror—that’s the likely emotional rollercoaster of the denizens of the “/b” message board on the 4chan website who hacked into Gov. Sarah Palin’s email account earlier this week. The toasts of the left-learning Internet on Tuesday, by this morning they knew themselves to be in the crosshairs of the FBI and Secret [...]
< p style=”text-align: left;”>In the beginning, there was Obamamania: < p style=”text-align: left;”>Then there was Palinmania: Poor Joe Biden. He gets fewer Google searches than that Jesus guy–whatever he‘s running for. Google Trends is a nifty proxy for measuring public interest in a very narrowly defined subject. The examples above show ”Search volume” (the total number of [...]
February 13, 2012
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