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

Chris F. Masse — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:58:37 +0000

“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, accurate, and timely as we can possibly make it.”

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/signal/

PredictWise — [LINK]

Chris F. Masse — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:55:48 +0000

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 occurring, and to have that information presented in a manner that is easy to comprehend. This website is managed by David M. Rothschild and Andrew S. Leonard.

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

Chris F. Masse — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:58:20 +0000

Good idea put up by Steve Waldman at the Econ Blog Forum.

I am all for.

Very few women have made History. — [LINK]

Chris F. Masse — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:15:42 +0000

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

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

Chris F. Masse — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:06:27 +0000

[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.

2011 Q1′s economic blogger survey – [POLL]

Chris F. Masse — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:22:55 +0000

Kauffman Foundation – PDF file.

Blog commenters should be selected.

Chris F. Masse — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:12:36 +0000

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 had an agenda. The only folks who told the real story were the anonymous background sources. So, here at least, I think it would be a mistake to force people to comment under their own names.

We publish anonymous sources only when it is truly necessary, but we prefer that people disclose their identity. Otherwise, some P.R. people hide under pseudonyms to puff their wind.

The Best Economics Blogs

Chris F. Masse — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:34:48 +0000

WSJ.

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

Great interview of WordPress’s Matt Mullenweg

Chris F. Masse — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:45:19 +0000

The interviewer asks all the good questions.

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

Chris F. Masse — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:19:01 +0000

The new URL of his blog: http://www.markxdavies.com/

His Twitter: http://twitter.com/markxdavies

A portrait of him (BetFair circa).