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The usage of Website ranking tools to predict the outcome of an election. Called “Wolling” (pronounced Wohl-ing)

Despite its ‘flaws’ it is a very interesting look into the way people might vote in 2008.

Problems with Wolling (Wolling Flaws)
-Over represents the younger population.
-Describes World Ranks.

Alexa Rankings

3 Month Alexa Average [08/16/08]
JohnMcCain.com: 10,005 - USA RANK: 1,953
BarackObama.com: 1,449 - USA RANK: 522

Compete Rankings

Compete Ranks [08/16/08]
JohnMcCain.com: 1932
BarackObama.com: 760

Quantcast Traffic Comparison:

Nonquantified Ranks [08/16/08]
JohnMcCain.com: 1096
- 44% Female// 56% Male
- 25% 18-34// 30% 35-49// 31% 50+
- 88% Caucasian// 3% African American// 3% Asian// 4% Hispanic// 1% Other
- 71% No Children// 29% Children (in house age 3-17)
- 18% 0-30k// 27% 30k-60k// 28% 60k-100k// 27% 100k+ (annual income)
- 36% No College// 45% College// 19% Graduate School

BarackObama.com: 516
- 58% Female//42% Male
- 34% 18-34// 33% 35-45// 30% 50+
- 63% Caucasian// 28% African American// 3% Asian// 4% Hispanic// 2% Other
- 74% No Children// 26% Children (in house age 3-17)
- 18% 0-30k// 24% 30k-60k// 28% 60k-100k// 30% 100k+ (annual income)
- 29% No College// 46% College// 25% Graduate School

One interesting thing about Quantcast is that it offers “Demographics”
Though it is probably the least accurate of the three options since it is based on if the website embeds code linking back to Quantcast. If the person browsing the website has 3rd party cookies turned off (as many mac and pc users do) it skews the results making the numbers dramatically lower and less accurate.

McCain Visitors Tend to be: Johnmccain.com is a top 5,000 site that reaches over 1.4 million U.S. monthly people. The site appeals to a slightly male slanted, more educated following.The typical visitor reads gop.com.

Obama Visitors Tend to be: Barackobama.com is a top 1,000 site that reaches over 2.7 million U.S. monthly people. The site caters to a more African American, fairly wealthy, skewing older, more educated, somewhat female crowd.The typical visitor reads democrats.org and subscribes to New Yorker.

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TROPICAL ISLAND — 08/16/08 — A few weeks ago, our very own W9cae passed out some business cards to people at an Apple event in Australia!

It took until now before the statistics caught up and revealed what W9cae’s efforts to promote AGc in Australia actually did. Lets start by saying before his efforts Australia was #4 on the list of countries loving AGc. Right now Australia is #2 on the list and inching closer and closer to the United States of America.

#1 AGc City: Melbourne, Australia.
#2 AGc City: Sydney, Australia.
#3 AGc City: London, England.
#4 AGc City: New York, USA.
#5 AGc City: New Jersey, USA.
Australia would be #1 if it had the resources the US has to access Apple products and AGc.

So great work W9cae! Thanks for helping us get to where we are in the Aussie heart! (slightly noticed, which is better than in America where we are barely noticed)

You can now Digg posts made on AGo! Pretty sweet I know! give it a shot and lets see what happens!

To view click on the title and scroll to the bottom of the post!

 Heath Shaw and Alan Didak

The Collingwood Football Club has suspended both Heath Shaw and Alan Didak for the rest of the 2008 season as a result of the fact they lied to the club about a drink-driving incident that occurred on Sunday night.

These suspensions include both the home-and-away portion of the season and potential finals matches.

As a repeat offender, Alan has been fined $5000, while the original fine to Heath of $10000 remains.

As part of the club’s further investigations, it was established that Rhyce Shaw, while injured, was drinking over that weekend, and as a result he has been suspended for two matches and fined $5000.

All three players will continue to train with the team, and as contracted players, will be bound by the same standards and disciplines of every player at the Collingwood Football Club.

The incident involving Heath Shaw and Alan Didak took place on Sunday night.  Shaw crashed his utility into two parked cars, returning a 0.14 blood alcohol reading when later breath-tested by police.  Didak was a passenger in the car.

CEO Gary Pert described the situation as, “extremely embarrassing”.

“I don’t accept at all that there’s a drinking culture at the Collingwood Football Club, he said.

“We absolutley do not.  We have got a player group that isn’t playing like that, that lives everyday disciplined and focused on winning a premiership”.

Chief of football operations Geoff Walsh hinted to the proposition that with the loss of three key players, it will give some of the younger boys a chance in the senior side.

“We may unearth Chris Dawes, we may unearth John McCarthy.  They can come in and play cameo roles and they (can) galvanise the senior boys and get (us) over the line” Walsh said.

He added that there was nothing to be read into the fact that president Eddie McGuire, coach Mick Malthouse or captain Scott Burns was not in attendance, adding that Pert was the right man to be at the media conference.

“It could easily be Eddie or Mick, it could easily be Scott Burns or the players themselves … but Gary as the CEO of the organisation, carries out the policy and administers the policy as set by the board.

“I would’ve thought, in my humble opinion, that there is no better person than the CEO to be sitting [here].”

Pert was adamant it was “absolutely not” a problem at Collingwood, in the wake of the suspensions imposed on Alan Didak, Heath Shaw and Rhyce Shaw for their off-field indiscretions.

“I don’t accept at all that there’s a drinking culture at the Collingwood Football Club,” Pert said, who fronted a 45-minute media conference with chief of football operations Geoff Walsh at Lexus Centre on Tuesday.

“Unfortunately, yesterday and today, we are focused on two players that have made really poor decisions that have affected their behaviour, which I think they’ll regret for the rest of their lives.

“We forget about the Collingwood players that are disciplined and focused and doing the right things by the code of conduct at the Collingwood footy club.”

Today reading over on Hackint0sh I found this very funny thread you might also get a great laugh out of ?

http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=48268

Additional commentary is still going on and it would be hard to post besides the thread link.