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World Blogging Month (WoBloMo)

Our fearless conductor Chris Masse has mastered the art of blogging, including the key ingredient of consistent daily posts. He knows what Stephen King knows: quantity and quality can be friends.
For a pseudo-blogger like me intimidated by those seven letters “P u b l i s h”, I could use some prodding from ludicrous and [...]

Midas Oracle thanks these guys for participating (by publishing posts and/or comments) in our ongoing discussion about the social utility of the prediction markets.

Tom W. Bell – Tom Bell – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – Professor – Law (Chapman University) – Blog: Agoraphilia – California, U.S.A.
Caveat Bettor [pseudonym] – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – Event Derivative Trader – Blog: Caveat Bettor – North America
Bo Cowgill – Post Archive at Midas [...]

“The Beacon” is an excellent blog published by The Independent Institute.

The Beacon
David Theroux, one of the bloggers, is the founder and president of The Independent Institute.
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WORDPRESS: In favor of self pings

Serra Dinho:
No one has been able to tell me what the purpose is behind WordPress sending pings and trackbacks to itself if you link to an article located in your archive.
It’s a great feature.

Google (and the other search engines) send web visitors to your old stories.
If you want those web visitors be become aware that [...]

How to optimize your prediction market blog (e.g., Midas Oracle, Caveat Bettor) or prediction exchange website (e.g., InTrade, TradeSports, BetFair, NewsFutures, HubDub) for Google Web Search —and all the other search engines out there.

Interview of Google’s Matt Cutts by USA Today.
The basic SEO tips.
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Xpree Blog

http://xpree.blogspot.com/
They picked the worst possible blogging platform: Blogger. — Completely crappy. — And their blog layout is ugly. — Awful.
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GOOD NEWS: Ron Paul is now blogging. — THE CHERRY ON TOP OF THE CAKE: Ron Paul is using WordPress.org… just like Midas Oracle does.

Campaign For Liberty
Campaign For Liberty – Blog
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WordPress.org
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HubDub’s Nigel Eccles is the man.

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He didn’t sign Bob’s petitions.
He is experienced.
He is well versed into prediction markets and journalism.
Just after HubDub’s inception, he realized they fucked up their chart widgets. Five months later, they managed to correct that birth defect.
He is a guy humble enough to ask for pointers and feedback —and he does listen up (see [...]

Midas Oracle keeps a list of 600+ external web links, and each of them is now automatically embedded into its text anchor.

Here’s our list of links.
Here’s the WordPress plugin I’m testing: Cross-Linker by Jan Hvizdak
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Now, let’s test it. I’m writing a list of people and organizations, and the plugin will automatically embed a link into each text anchor:

Robin Hanson
InTrade
InTrade Forum
Inkling Markets
Inkling Markets Blog
Inkling Markets Forum
Justin Wolfers
Michael Giberson
Slate
Koleman Strumpf
Prediction Market Industry Association
Midas Oracle .ORG
Marginal Revolution
Cato Institute
Chicago Mercantile [...]

Ecominds is a specialist financial markets consulting company focused on wholesale markets and automated trading systems.

Ecominds
They love us so much that they put Midas Oracle TWICE on their blogroll. If that’s not pure love, then I don’t know what pure love is.
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