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 Gabriel, Katie-Jay, Joshua and Jeremiah are still in N’djamena. Fighting has broken out in the capital, it looks like a revolution is happening. Some humanitarian staff have been evacuated, and we’re waiting for more news. UNHCR vehicles were stolen and the capital is under attack. Amidst all the chaos, our team is still uploading video and journals. Read more of the story at stopgenocidenow.org and check out the latest on their Flickr stream. Read more...

11:20 AM Feb 05, 2008 - 0 comments permalink

The Wisdom of the Crowds, Political Junkie Edition

 Our friends at Politics and Technology ran a "punditology challenge" asking readers to pick the winners of all the January presidential primaries, Republican and Democratic alike. The winners are here, (gosh, an A-list political blogger wins ... but it wasn't all favorites this weekend). So, here's the bullet point for that wisdom-of-the-crowds slide you need to update with fresh data:
Our collective picks scored 117 points - and were better than 96.2% of the individual punditologists.
Out of 563 entrants, "collective picks" would have tied for 20th. We saw much the same thing (in a smaller sample) for last year's Oscar pool. (Dear readers, should we reprise this?)  

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01:39 PM Feb 04, 2008 - 1 comments permalink

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