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Tag Archives: journalist
The John Edwards Non-Affair… is making Memeorandum (twice), again.
Slate’s Jack Shafer (my favorite libertarian journalist –both small “L” and capitalized “L”): [...] visiting the woman who recently gave birth to the out-of-wedlock child of a married campaign aide is completely OK. But meeting her at a Beverly Hills … Continue reading
Max Keiser’s politics is controversial. But, as a journalist, he is a genius. Market-based probabilistic predictions (whether it’s play money or real money) are now part of his daily punditry toolbox.
Max Keiser looks at what the prediction markets are predicting the outcome will be at the Geneva talks on the Doha Round. Here’s the link to the HubDub prediction market which Max Keiser plugs in this video segment. -
Forecasting Principles should index BusinessWeek.
Andreas Graefe, Please, index the BusinessWeek news article (see the page #2, too) on your IIF webpage. – I believe it’s an Earth-shattering piece featuring major thinkers of the field of prediction markets, who were interviewed by that bright journalist … Continue reading
The NewsFutures website has been revamped —well, very superficially.
They just changed the layout of their website and of their blog. Same content —and same reliance to, what Jakob Nielsen calls, “marketese”. Triple alas. – Emile Servan-Schreiber says smart things to journalists —but, unlike Adam Siegel, he is incapable … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Siegel, corporate prediction markets, Emile Servan-Schreiber, enterprise prediction markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, internal prediction markets, Jakob Nielsen, journalist, NewsFutures, prediction markets, private prediction markets
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Journalists and bloggers have difficulty discovering the full URLs (the “deep links”) of the BetFair prediction markets.
It’s well hidden. You have to go on the right side of one prediction market, click on “Rules”, and spot the deep link at the bottom of the text. – - Spot the mentions of TradeSports and BetFair at the … Continue reading
Set up a blog, get yourself a mobile video phone, and, hop, you’re a journalist competing with CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FBN, and the BBC.
IT blogger Robert Scoble (on the left), holding his Nokia, interviewing Michael Dell at Davos (WEF): Michael Arrington of TechCrunch took the pic. — Here’s a Davos video taken with a mobile video phone:
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Tagged BBC, blog, blogger, CNN, Davos, Journalism, journalist, Michael Arrington, Michael Dell, Robert Scoble, video
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Amateur and Professional Bloggers vs Professional Journalists
Felix Salmon (the best finance blogger on Earth): [...] It’s true that blogs are capable of bringing down politicians, just like newspapers. But financial blogs don’t have anything like the same kind of influence that the big political blogs have, … Continue reading
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Tagged bloggers, daily newspaper, Felix Salmon, Finance, finance blogger, finance bloggers, Jesse Eisinger, Journalism, journalist, journalists, mainstream media, mainstream media journalists, Open Media, Samuel Beckett, using web technology, web technology
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If the British legal betting companies offer bets on the sport, it is because there is demand for bets on the sport —and if that demand were not offered in a regulated environment, it would be filled in an unregulated one (like what we see with TradeSports-InTrade and MatchBook in the US market).
Mark Davies of BetFair (PDF file): International Leaders in Sport conference, Auckland, New Zealand. April 3-4th 2008. Keynote speech, April 4th. Mark Davies, Betfair. “New Understandings in Sports Betting” Minister, ladies and gentlemen… Thank you very much for your kind … Continue reading →