As part of my research on the paper I am writing about milblogs, I have created a Google Custom Search Engine that searches some of the top milblog sites as rated by milblogging.com, ringsurf, and TTLB.  I plan to use this as a research tool for the paper.  So, to keep the number of results […]

Testing a widget from the prediction market called Inkling. Cool if/when it works. Seems a little difficult to use.
How might prediction markets be used for research and/or intelligence gathering?
Here’s one from NewsFutures on the probability of a U.S. attack on Iran in the near future:

Looks like those trading on NewsFutures have been feeling […]

An image uploaded using the built-in FTP functions of Performancing. It’s tough to get the text to wrap around the image though. Just doesn’t seem to be a good way to do it in Performancing without using Flickr first.  Annoying.  You gotta edit code and stuff…yuck!

So, I’m testing to see how the new style deals with posting an image to the site directly from Flickr.  It may be better to have the image on the left side that on the right.  Not sure how or if I can do that from within Performancing.  Although, it might […]

I have been working for most of the day to create a new template and stylesheet for the site.  The look and feel of the sight may change often over the next couple days as I finalize the new look.  Bear with me.