Built to win: Deep inside Obama

Built to win: Deep inside Obama’s campaign tech
Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com

The reelec­tion of Barack Obama was won by peo­ple, not by soft­ware. But in a con­test as close as last week’s elec­tion, soft­ware may have given the Obama for Amer­i­ca orga­ni­za­tion’s peo­ple a tiny edge—mak­ing them by some mea­sures more…

RT @NathanMattise: This is beautiful, classic @arstechnica: Inside @BarackObama’s campaign tech team http://flpbd.it/3c2no #Obama2012 http://flpbd.it/YRtJi

UK puts entire government on the web, others to follow

Government’s digital services portal Gov.uk comes out of beta
By Ian Steadman, wired.co.uk

Technology

The gov­ern­ment’s cen­tralised por­tal for all its online ser­vices, Gov.uk, final­ly launched today after two years of devel­op­ment.

It rep­re­sents the flag­ship of the gov­ern­ment’s “dig­i­tal by default” pol­i­cy, an idea fir…

http://flpbd.it/VuGse

A Disappointing Presidential Debate For Energy And Climate

A Disappointing Presidential Debate For Energy And Climate
By Climate Guest Blogger on Oct 5, 2012 at 10:30 am, thinkprogress.org

by Bill Beck­er

If Mitt Rom­ney and Barack Obama had been able to look through the tele­vi­sion cam­eras at who was watch­ing their first debate, it undoubt­ed­ly would have been more inter­est­ing than the debate itself.

Rush Lim­baugh…

http://flpbd.it/w7ZfQ

Report says 15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes

Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts,...
Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, 2008 US presidential candidate. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Report says 15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes

Dan Goodin, arstechnica.com

More than 15 per­cent of Mitt Rom­ney’s Twit­ter fol­low­ers may be gen­er­at­ed by paid ser­vices that use fake accounts to arti­fi­cial­ly inflate the num­ber of peo­ple sub­scribed to the pre­sump­tive Repub­li­can nom­i­nee for US Pres­i­dent,…

http://flpbd.it/BNd2F

gringoes.com: great site for South American, Brazilian nomads

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English: de:Bild:Brasilien_topo.jpg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

gringoes.com – Brazil Travel, Brazil Guide, Brazil News.

Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS)

Developing countries excluding Least Developed...
Developing countries excluding Least Developed Countries (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

via www.ushahidi.com

My friend Bill told me about this company which uses crowdsourcing to address crisis situations in developing countries.

National Science Foundation (NSF) databases for science information

 

Best database for government science information:

nsf.gov – National Science Foundation – US National Science Foundation (NSF).

 

gringoes.com – Brazil Travel, Brazil Guide, Brazil News

Brazil: Muriqui Hills
Brazil: Muriqui Hills (Photo credit: Rhys Asplundh)

gringoes.com – Brazil Travel, Brazil Guide, Brazil News.

From maverick to misguided renegade: Inside the McCain campaign

Left to right: Todd Palin, Sarah Palin, Cindy ...
Left to right: Todd Palin, Sarah Palin, Cindy McCain, and John McCain. Rally in Fairfax, Virginia on September 10, 2008. Photo by Rachael Dickson. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

From maverick to misguided renegade – The Boston Globe.

Interesting summary of the media tactics of the current McCain campaign.

Bio-Link: a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education Center for Biotechnology

 

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English: Logo of the National Science Foundation (NSF). For NSF logo information visit: http://www.nsf.gov/policies/logos.jsp (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Bio-Link.

 

Bio-Link is a National Science Foundation NSF Advanced Technological Education ATE Center for Biotechnology.