My short piece in today’s Boston Globe – which, I should note, they ended up giving a great title – is here. It’s nothing major: just a use of Wordle to pull out the most prominent words from the official McCain and Obama campaign blogs, and then some brief analysis of a few of the most interesting ones. But it is sort of fun, and I do think it’s genuinely revealing of at least some important aspects of the state of the debate. (Short take: yes, Michael Goldfarb still won’t stop talking about Barack Obama, whose blog for its part is largely eschewing counterattacks and instead going on and on about hope and change.) Anyway, check it out.
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Found that piece via StumbleUpon. I thought it was an interesting way to gauge what the campaigns put the most stress on and comparing them to others generated later has been a fun way to watch the evolution of the campaigns. I was wondering, do you remember when did you generate those Wordle graphics or would you still have the Wordle gallery generated links to those graphics? Anyway, I want to thank you for revealing Wordle to me.
[...] John Schwenkler , professeur de philosophie à Berkeley (et soutien de Bob Barr), l’a fait, et le Boston globe en a tiré une page fort instructive. Prenons par exemple ce graphique : [...]
The original images are here and here; I think they were put together – by a member of the Globe staff, not by me – on Thursday afternoon, using whatever was in the blogs’ RSS feeds at that point.
Thanks, I appreciate that. I was needlessly defending you on StumbleUpon. By the way, your piece was JUST (8 minutes ago) mentioned on Race For The White House guest hosted by Rachel Maddow. So, as far as I’m concerned, you’re now the most famous person who’s written something to me without having
slavesinterns do it.Whoa. That almost makes me wish I had cable.
No no, don’t wish that. You can hear your honorable mention by listening to the end of the first part of today’s The Rachel Maddow Show which simulcasts The Race For The White House. It’s starting again at 5 at the “listen live” link on Air America 620 KPOJ, although I’m sure you COULD actually find a video of today’s Race For The White House. Or you could forget it and take my word for it, but then you can’t add a screenshot of the frame in which you’re mentioned to the “when I became famous” scrap book that I would totally have if I were you.
Cool, thanks, I’ll give it a listen. And I’ll definitely try to find the video …
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This is awesome. I thought it might be interesting to see word clouds of their speeches, too: http://nosugrefneb.com/weblog/538