Sunday, October 12, 2008

Thing 7: Feed Me!

Wow - this is great! It was easy to add all of you to my reader since I am "following" many of your blogs, and they were automatically added to my reader. I just finished dashing through your comments much faster than when I was clicking on each one at the "26.2 Things" homepage. I miss seeing the personalized touches we've each given to our blogs, but the convenience of reading this way is a real advantage.

As many of us described in our blogs, I have struggled with this concept - not really "getting it" and not utilizing either rss-feeds or blogs and other information outlets as much as I could have. Now that I've done this exercise, I wonder why it has taken me so long.

In addition to all of our blogs from class, I've added several library-related blogs that I've had book-marked for some time but not been reading and one political blog that I've been reading since it was recommended by a pol-saavy faculty-member at my school.

If you're not totally sick of politics by this time, the political blog is "http://www.fivethirtyeight.com" (that is the number of votes in the electoral college) and it is both generally unbiased and really good at exploring the statistical aspect of all the elections - not just the executive but the House, Senate, and Gubinatorial Races as well.

Here's a cut-and-paste of the rest of my friend/faculty-member's comment of political blogs, for anyone who might be interested:

"Here are the blogs I read every day:

www.electoral-vote.com (it posts only in the morning)

http://www.swingstateproject.com/frontPage.do
(that’s a great site for keeping up with house races)

http://senateguru.com/
(that’s the best site for the senate races)

http://mydd.com/
http://openleft.com/frontPage.do
Www.dailykos.com
Www.americablog.com

(4 just liberal blogs that keep track of good daily news, Kos being the biggest with lots of posts)

A good place to keep track of the daily state and national polls:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/

Congressional Quarterly has a great site with interactive maps of all the races:
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5

Huffington post is great but also has non political stuff, but mainly a political blog: Nice columns
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Then the graddaddy of the new 2008 blogs:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
(this has all the stats and modeling and trying to predict the election after rocking the primaries using models similar to what he uses at Baseball prospectus to predict future stats for players)

Some others:
http://cookpolitical.com/ (predictions and fun maps on all levels)
http://rothenbergpoliticalreport.blogspot.com/ (another political handicapper)
http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/ (great blog for keeping track of conventions but who knows what it’ll do now)
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/
http://www.politicalwire.com/
http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/

How the other half lives:
www.redstate.com (but be prepared to get mad reading here [if you are liberal])
http://www.electionprojection.com/index.shtml

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