August 2008
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What is more accurate - polls or the Wisdom of the...
Polls about US Presidential elections are notoriously inaccurate - that’s what Swiss newspaper NZZ (Neue Zuercher Zeitung) says in an article in yesterday’s issue. While Barack Obama is still leading his competitor John McCain in the polls by 3 to 6 percentage points, this is far less than the 15 points with which the Democrats lead the Republicans in the senatorial elections....
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Streetparade - Swarm Creativity of another kind
Today (Aug 9, 2008) was again streetparade in Zurich, arguably the second largest Techno party in the world (the largest seems to be the Love Parade in Dortmund), with over 800,000 participants. This has now been happening every year since it was started by math student Marek Krynski in 1992. A huge swarm, and hugely creative. About 30 love mobiles, huge trucks as mobile dancing platforms, and...
The end of the Federer era - is it close?
The answer seems to be yes, at least when looking at the wisdom of the crowd through Web coolhunting with Condor. There the longtime number two, Rafael Nadal, is ahead of Roger Federer by Web buzz for the last four days. It has been a masterful four and a half years for Roger Federer, but now it seems there is not much that he still can do to defend his number one position, at least that’s...
