Website review

Which Senate Candidate has the Most Popular Website?

Erin had a little free time today so we decided to build on our campaign study and do some quick research to see which US Senate candidates had the most popular websites.   Please note that the site rank and reach per million data included in the table below is taken from Alexa.  We included the blog column based on our own research....

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Political Junkie? Check out Pollster.com

Mark Blumenthal, the man behind last election cycle's Mystsery Pollster blog, has a new site called pollster.com and it is fantastic.  There is a blog that provides analysis of the latest polling data as well as a section called The Polls that aggregates all the various polls for each Senate and Gubernatorial race and select House races. ...

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Internet Regulation Around the World

With the recent news that the Iranian government has decided to limit ADSL bandwidth above 128 kbps for all ISPs (BoingBoing reported it before Reuters) without giving a reason, it makes sense that this is an opportune time to take stock of state-mandated Internet regulation (including content filtering and surveillance) schemes around the world....

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Using blip.tv for Free Video Hosting

In the wake of the purchase of YouTube by Google, there has been a lot of discussion about online video and the various companies trying to gain market share in the space.  When you look at the various players, you’ll see a lot of different approaches.  Some focus on viral video. ...

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When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth

eKarjala inspired me to take the time and dig up some fossils of today's most popular websites using the Wayback Machine. Click on the images to be taken to the archived websites and the text link to see today's versions:

APPLE (December, 1998)

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