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Why InTrade CEO John Delaney, TradeSports acting CEO John Delaney, BetFair CEO David Yu, HubDub CEO Nigel Eccles and NewsFutures CEO Emile Servan-Schreiber should supplicate me to develop my prediction market journalism project

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- 200 web visitors (coming from Google) reached my John Edwards post, published yesterday afternoon (ET). – 10% of them followed my links to the 2 HubDub prediction markets on John Edwards. – - Remember that those web stats count … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Midas Oracle Project, Midas Oracle Statistics, Prediction Journalism | Tagged acting CEO, BetFair, BetFair CEO, bloggers, brand-new media organization, CEO, David Yu, Emile Servan-Schreiber, Google, HubDub, HubDub CEO, InTrade, InTrade CEO, John Delaney, journalists, Justin Wolfers, mainstream media, Media, Midas Oracle Project, News, NewsFutures, NewsFutures CEO, Nigel Eccles, Open Media, prediction market journalism, prediction markets, The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, web stats, Web visitors | Leave a comment

Yet another guy, writing about prediction markets in the mainstream media, who does not master what he is talking about.

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Via Adam Siegel of Inkling Markets, John McQuaid of Wired. It’s incoherent to start a rant against prediction markets by this upbeat line, “Prediction markets can be spookily accurate.” He blames the New Hampshire upset on poor liquidity. Where is … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Meta), Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Leading & Lagging Indicators | Tagged accuracy, Adam, Adam Siegel, Barry Ritholtz, Collective Intelligence, event derivative markets, event derivatives, John McQuaid, mainstream media, New Hampshire, prediction markets, the New York Times, Wired, wisdom of crowds | 15 Comments

Prediction market journalism can’t be practiced by the “mainstream media”. What we need is a revolution.

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

The eyes-wide-opened Alexis Perrier notes that many “mainstream media” do talk about political prediction markets, these days. But that’s a superficial coverage —basically, explaining to morons (surfacing from their Afghan cave) what InTrade does. The real thing is prediction market … Continue reading →

Posted in Prediction Journalism | Tagged Alexis Perrier, Justin Wolfers, mainstream media, Media, Open Media, prediction market journalism, prediction markets | 2 Comments

Only bloggers do link to the prediction markets —mainstream media, like ABC News, never do.

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Can NewsFutures Really Predict the Future? … asks ABC News (4 pages): [...] NewsFutures creator Emile Servan-Schreiber believes that prediction markets like his are the “future of journalism.” [*] “It gives people the news of today and lets them give … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Meta), Exchanges & Markets, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities, Prediction Journalism | Tagged ABC, average player, basketball, Bet 2 Give, Bet2Give, Emile Servan-Schreiber, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Florida, golf, Hockey, Journalism, mainstream media, Microsoft, Mike Linksvayer, NewsFutures, Player, prediction market journalism, prediction markets, soccer, sports prediction markets, tennis, Yahoo! | 4 Comments

Hedge your taxes –and forecast them too.

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

The mainstream media continue to show interest for Jason Ruspini’s tax futures markets. Previously: Video.

Posted in Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets, Finance | Tagged event derivative markets, event derivatives, InTrade, Jason Ruspini, mainstream media, prediction markets, tax futures, tax prediction markets, tax rate futures, tax rate prediction markets | Leave a comment

WordPress powers the MSM’s blogs: NY Times, WSJ, CNN, Fox, Time and People.

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Pictured above is Matt Mullenweg (the co-founder of WordPress), holding a Crunchie award (designed after a famous scene in Stanley Kubrick’s movie, Space Odyssey). WordPress is now used to power the blogs of many mainstream media (NY Times, WSJ, CNN, … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Information Technology, Prediction Journalism | Tagged Andrew "Bert" Black, Automattic, CNN, co-founder, David Pennock, Jed Christiansen, Justin Wolfer, mainstream media, Matt Mullenweg, Mike Smithson, New York Times, prediction markets, Software, Stanley Kubrick, the New York Times, WordPress | Leave a comment

Amateur and Professional Bloggers vs Professional Journalists

Posted on December 5, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

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 →

Posted in Prediction Journalism | 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 | Leave a comment

Too humble to be honest?

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

QUESTION: What is missing in Tyler Cowen’s profile? The answer just after the visual… — — Achievements: I created (with Alex Tabarrok) the world’s premier and most popular group blog on economics. Contrary to my “F” counterpart, I managed (as … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, People, Resources - References | Tagged Alex Tabarrok, mainstream media, Marginal Revolution, Premier, Tyler Cowen | Leave a comment

Blogging is not as easy as people think.

Posted on November 5, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Kottke.org: Joel Turnipseed: That’s really funny. In another interview I did, the one with Ted Genoways, he said something that I hope a lot of people pick up on, because I think it’s incredibly important to this discussion. What Ted … Continue reading →

Posted in Prediction Journalism | Tagged blogging, Cory Doctorow, Joel Turnipseed, Kottke Enterprises Ltd, mainstream media, Open Media, South America, Ted Genoways | Leave a comment

Blogging Software = Freedom to write in any form and shape you want

Posted on October 27, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Harvard University professor Edward Glaeser: [...] Blogs and columns are quite different, and The Marginal Revolution illustrates what can make blogs exciting. Mr. Cowen and his collaborators post to the website with astonishing regularity. Their blog posts are often brief … Continue reading →

Posted in Prediction Journalism | Tagged author, blogging software, Cowen, Edward Glaeser, Felix Salmon, Harvard University, HTML, mainstream media, Professor, software packages, the New York Times, web publishing, web publishing tools | 1 Comment

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