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3 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘technology’

What If It’s Not As Close As (The Media Wants) You (to) Think?

By Denis Campbell • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics
The infamous Daily Tracking Polls the media treat as Gospel, are missing several chapters. From Gallup to Zogby these polls are of ‘likely’ voters in the upcoming election. A ‘likely’ voter is defined as someone having voted in the last two Presidential elections.
That means the youngest possible poll participant voted in his/her first election in [...]


26 Days in a Row!

By Denis Campbell • Aug 12th, 2008 • Category: Business
The price of oil has retreated from its all-time nose-bleed inducing high and prices at the pump have declined in the US to $3.80 a gallon ($8.26 in the UK) but not at the same rate at which they rode skyward. Part of the UK number also includes a 5% drop in the currency exchange [...]


Somebody’s Watching Me and You!

By Denis Campbell • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Features
I’ve become hyper-cautious with Internet click-through ads. Unless I know the website to where I am being pointed, I just say no. Back in ’00 I pulled a team out of a web development contract because of