Tag Archives: blogs

Knowns and unknowns of the 2012 presidential elections — [LINK]

“We gather information from a variety of sources (some of which are themselves information aggregators), including prediction markets, polls, web search, social activity, games, and historical precedent, and combine it together to produce a Consensus Prediction that is as unbiased, … Continue reading

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PredictWise — [LINK]

A blog on market-generated predictions: PredictWise aggregates, analyzes, and creates predictions on politics, sports, finance, and entertainment. We created PredictWise because we thought it would be interesting and informative for people to better understand the likelihood of certain major events … Continue reading

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Steve Randy Waldman wants to create a bloggers’ think tank. — [IDEA]

Good idea put up by Steve Waldman at the Econ Blog Forum. I am all for.

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Very few women have made History. — [LINK]

There are 39 women on the list of the top 1,000 economist. None of them blog.

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Nick Denton of Gawker Media about their website redesign — [VIDEO]

[Download this post to watch the embedded video, if your feed reader does not show it to you.] Nick Denton mentions this during his talk: – Blogonomics: The End of Micropublishing? – by Felix Salmon.

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2011 Q1′s economic blogger survey – [POLL]

Kauffman Foundation – PDF file.

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Blog commenters should be selected.

I fully agree with Henry Blodget. We also screen commenters, here, on Midas Oracle. As for anonymity: One thing I learned about business journalism when I was actually in business (Wall Street) was that anyone who went on the record … Continue reading

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The Best Economics Blogs

WSJ. Congrats to Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution —and all the other ones cited. {They forgot Freakonomics.}

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Great interview of WordPress’s Matt Mullenweg

The interviewer asks all the good questions.

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Ex-BetFair’s Mark Davies –> His new blog URL.

The new URL of his blog: http://www.markxdavies.com/ His Twitter: http://twitter.com/markxdavies A portrait of him (BetFair circa).

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