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Commenting on Midas Oracle

As you know, some people commenting here told me they went into trouble, even when they were logged in. I found out why. The anti-spam plugin “WP Spam Free” does not exempt registered blog users from its anti-spam checking. It only exempts the administrator (me). That’s absurd. (See the WP forum.) The registered users of [...]

NewsFutures presidential widget

NewsFutures Widget

nfUsPrezWidget(“vertical”,”",”false”);
Source: NewsFutures widget
Bet2Give Widget

b2gUsPrezWidget(“vertical”,”",”false”);
Source: Bet2Give widget
[Technical Notes: The NewsFutures and Bet2Give widgets do not appear in the blog feed. For your information, my blog is powered by WordPress.org. I'm the administrator. The Exec-PHP plugin is installed.]
You can compare the NewsFutures probabilities with InTrade’s ones:

Bet2Give Presidential Widget —REDUX

It works, finally.

Bet2Give Presidential Widget – You can customize it. Excellent. If you want to insert it in a WordPress.org-powered blog post (like Midas Oracle), you should disable the visual editor, during the insertion of the code lines. And I bet you should have the Exec PHP plugin, or be the administrator of the blog [...]

Bet2Give Presidential Widget

Bet2Give Presidential Widget – You can customize it. Excellent. If you want to insert it in a WordPress.org-powered blog post (like Midas Oracle), you should disable the visual editor, during the insertion of the code lines. And I bet you should have the Exec PHP plugin, or be the administrator of the blog —or both.

b2gUsPrezWidget(“vertical”,”",”false”);

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Testing the Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin… and thinking aloud about a prediction market plugin.

UPDATE: I have completely re-written this blog post. I have just found out (at the bottom of a FAQ, which was itself linked from the bottom of a page!) that the Yahoo! Shortcuts only works when the WordPress rich, visual editor is disabled. That explains all. So I am now typing this with the raw [...]

Please, make WordPress a bit like Wikipedia.

Folks, here is my proposal to the WordPress developers:
Assign a great number of editors to some specific pages
Right now, if you are an editor in WordPress, you can edit any posts and pages. Hence, the administrator of a big group blog would not have many editors —because the blog posters would not like the idea [...]

Inkling Free Pilot Program

We try not to post directly about our platform or new clients on Midas Oracle, leaving it up to Chris to highlight the good… and the bad … but we thought people might be interested in a new capability we just launched this morning since it’s actually something everyone can try. You can [...]

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