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Help me beating David Pennock

Written by Chris F. Masse on June 15, 2009 — 2 Comments

Here is the problematic:
- Midas Oracle is updated many times a day, with interesting stuff about prediction markets, collective forecasting, and other topics. In all logic, the number of Midas Oracle feed subscribers is increasing slowly but regularly.
- Odd Head is updated each time the Catholic Pope contributes to the progress of humanity (that is, [...]

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Midas Oracle is the #1 blog on prediction markets.

Written by Chris F. Masse on November 3, 2008 — 2 Comments

Some web stats for the month of October 2008:
- about 950 daily feed subscribers – [by comparison, BetFair Predicts has only 5 feed subscribers according to Google Reader]

- 29,334 visits
- 49,424 pageviews
Stats for all the 3 Midas Oracle blogs.
Our guest authors do benefit from this formidable, unrivaled readership.

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At BetFair Predicts, they are technologically retarded.

Written by Chris F. Masse on October 28, 2008 — 2 Comments

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BetFair Predicts is a blog that aims at the Americans. In my view, it’s a big failure (once again).

BetFair listened to some snake-oil “social media” consultant. As an experienced and successful webmaster, I can tell you there are many flaws in their whole project and in its execution.
BetFair has hired some second-tier writers for the [...]

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Marginal Revolution vs. Freakonomics vs. Overcoming Bias vs. Midas Oracle

Written by Chris F. Masse on August 5, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Here are the stats about the feed subscribers to these blogs who use either Google Reader or iGoogle.
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To interpret these data, you should know that:

The web visitors are not counted.
The PC-based feed subscribers are not counted.
The Web-based feed subscribers who use other feed readers than Google are not counted.
In the case of Marginal Revolution, which [...]

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