I have published the video, and it has now appeared in Google Reader (contrary to my fear due to the technicality of this CSPAN video embedding).
Prof Schuyler Moore made a good impression on US Representatives.
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PubSubHubbub + PuSHPress
I have just installed the PuSHPress plugin, and this post is a test to see whether it works. If yes, this post should be indexed quickly by Google Reader (and other feed readers).
Filed in “-Real-Time Web“-.
UPDATE: I am so impressed, I could lay an egg. A brand-new post appears in Google Reader within seconds. I can’-t believe it.
UPDATE 2: Any small editing is immediately fetched by Google Reader (provided it is done on the last 10 posts). Amazing.
Still no embedded YouTube videos to be seen in my feed reader(s).
Problem with my WordPress 2.7, my embedded YouTube videos, and my feed reader(s).
Still a mystery.
No word yet from the WordPress authorities.
A tipster tells me that the plugin “-Smart YouTube”- solves the problem.
I won’-t install the plugin before I get reliable info from the WordPress authorities.
UPDATE: If I embed the YouTube video in the “-HTML”- area, and don’-t click on “-Visual”- before publishing, all is fine —-the YouTube video will end up in the feed reader.
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Problem with my WordPress 2.7, my embedded YouTube videos, and my feed reader(s).
In my last post, I have embedded 7 YouTube videos on prediction markets (featuring Emile Servan-Schreiber of NewsFutures). While they work fine on the post within my web browser, they can’-t be seen when that same post is displayed within a feed reader (such as Google Reader or Sage).
At this moment, I have no idea where the problem comes from. I would blame WordPress 2.7. (All was fine with the previous versions of WordPress.) Let me investigate that technical issue. I will post an update to this post, later on.
UPDATE: Still a mystery. A tipster tells me that the plugin “-Smart YouTube”- solves the problem.
UPDATE: If I embed the YouTube video in the “-HTML”- area, and don’-t click on “-Visual”- before publishing, all is fine —-the YouTube video will end up in the feed reader.
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Marginal Revolution vs. Freakonomics vs. Overcoming Bias vs. Midas Oracle
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 was one of the defaults proposed by Google Reader until recently, many feed subscribers do not actually read this blog.
- A vertical blog like Midas Oracle, which deals only with prediction markets, is necessary far less popular than more horizontal blogs, which can publish about everything (including sex, as it has been the case in the past with those 3 economics blogs).
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Become friend with me on Google E-Mail so as to share feed items with me within Google Reader.
Connect with me on GMAIL:
chrisfmasse |-at-| gmail |.|-com-|
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I have just done something really stupid. I accidentally deleted almost all my friends at GMAIL (except the prediction market people). I want to slap my face. If you don’-t see me anymore within Google Reader, please re-connect with me. (By defintion, I lost your e-mail address, so I cannot reconnect with you on my own.) I’-m an idiot, I know.
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Folks, you are reading this within Google Reader, ARENT YOU??
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How to use the Midas Oracle feeds…-
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Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse:
- A second look at HedgeStreet’s comment to the CFTC about “event markets”
- Since YooPick opened their door, Midas Oracle has been getting, daily, 2 or 3 dozens referrals from FaceBook.
- US presidential hopeful John McCain hates the Midas Oracle bloggers.
- If you have tried to contact Chris Masse thru the Midas Oracle Contact Form, I’m terribly sorry to inform you that your message was not delivered to the recipient.
- THE CFTC’s SECRET AGENDA —UNVEILED.
- “Over a ten-year period commencing on January 1, 2008, and ending on December 31, 2017, the S & P 500 will outperform a portfolio of funds of hedge funds, when performance is measured on a basis net of fees, costs and expenses.”
- Meet professor Thomas W. Malone (on the right), from the MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence.
Google Reader now lets you jot down a note about any feed item that youve just read, before you share it with your acquaintances and friends (so they can sense how you feel about the news of the day). So, now, we know what Googles Bo Cowgill thinks of the CFTC announcement: ITS COOL.
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Here’-s the Google Reader announcement about this new functionality. (My thought: it’-s “-cool”-. 
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Robert Scoble thinks it’-s lame.
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– To share items with me (Chris Masse) within Google Reader, go to GMail, and under “-Chat”- (on the left pane), click on “-Add Contact”-. Paste my e-mail address there (chrisfmasse +++at—- gmail +dot—- com). Once I receive your invite, I’-ll accept it. You will then see my shared items and I’-ll see yours within Google Reader.
– Advanced tips on how to share items with friends within Google Reader
– Chris Masse’-s Starred Items at Google Reader —- Many things there.
– Chris Masse’-s Shared Items at Google Reader —- Only the most important things.
More info about site feeds and feed readers.
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And, remember:
- Life is “-cool”-.
- Parachute jumping is “-cool”-.
- Prediction markets are “-cool”-.
- Google is “-cool”-.
- Google Reader is “-cool”-.
- Midas Oracle is “-cool”-.
- God is “-cool”-.
- Robin Hanson is “-cool”-, too.
- Let’-s all be “-cool”-.
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The true numbers of the BetFair blog readership
They do poorly, as of today. Not surprising, since their content is not interesting (to say the least, and to stay correct). The only traction in the feed readership stats (compiled by the Google Reader, the world’-s most popular feed reader), right now, is the portion of the BetFair blog that is written by a female professional Poker player (”-Annette 15″-). She is sponsored by BetFair Poker.
Read the previous blog posts by Chris. F. Masse:
- WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg is my hero and so he should be yours.
- InTrade-TradeSports has seen more than $50 million wagered on the U.S. presidential election.
- Prediction markets on who is going to win an election are more accurate then the final Gallup poll.
- LinkedIn will be data-mining its database of millions of users to find potential experts.
- Britons can’t get enough of Yankee’s politics.
- TURNING POINT: BARACK OBAMA EVENT DERIVATIVE NOW AHEAD FOR BOTH DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION AND NOVEMBER’S ELECTION.
- Five reasons Hillary Clinton should be worried
Do use Google Reader.
About feeds:
- I recommend reading any blog within a Web-based feed reader and I recommend Google Reader.
- You should be able to scan-read quickly the items within your feed reader —-classify them, tag them, share them, and search them.
- Read your feed items starting with the oldest items. Google Reader: Click on “-View settings”- and select “-Sort by oldest”-.
- Create a main folder for your most important items, and set it as your “-start page”-. Put your less important feeds in other folders.
- Tag the important items that you want to star and share.
- Share items with people who have good taste.
- Perform searches in your archived items —-in all of them, by category, by tag, or by feed.
- Advanced tips on how to use Google Reader.
- Advanced tips on how to share items with friends within Google Reader.