| November 8, 2006 | Elex Success |
Even though I've been awake and working for most of the last 48 hours, I'm definitely excited about the Elections results, AND  I'm excited to point out that SearchEngineWatch just published a post titled "In the Elections Results Race, Yahoo!'s the Winner," saying that Yahoo!'s Election Day 2006 coverage was better than Google's, MSN's, and AOL's. They called out this interactive map that Chris built in the post. Considering this is pretty much one of the only positive pieces of press I've seen about Yahoo! vis a vis Google in the past year (see this Drift post "The Swift-Boating of Yahoo!" for more info), I'd say it was a smashing success.See, just as I pointed out two years ago in my post and flickr photoset describing how the 2004 Presidential Elections as covered at Yahoo! there are benefits to having actual human journalists taking care to gather and present information, rather then computer algorithms choosing and presenting news -- especially about important, controversial, and complicated topics. Labels: chris, elections, google, journalists, map, media, news, reporting, yahoo posted by Jess Barron @ 2:58 PM 
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| November 7, 2006 | Turning Away from Jackson's Breasts for a Moment... |
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For this Election Day, I turned my focus away from topics such as purses and Janet Jackson's breasts to something slightly more important -- and political -- for the Yahoo! Top 5 segment on ABC News NOW. In today's special political video segment, I spoke about the Top 5 Political Blogs and the Top 5 Hot-Button Ballot issues. This wasn't my best segment. I was talking way too fast, and also my neck and chest broke out in a rash from the heat. (It was 92 degrees yesterday in Los Angeles when we taped this segment and there's no make-up person on-hand to save me from unsightly redness.) I'll try to look past my disturbing appearance, and take comfort in the fact that we got some more serious info out there. Did YOU vote today? Why or why not? What's the big issue for you this election? Labels: abcnews, elections, politics, video, vote, yahoo, yahootop5 posted by Jess Barron @ 1:23 PM
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| November 6, 2006 | The Politics of Searching... |
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Tomorrow's U.S. midterm elections look like they're gonna be close. Please go out and vote. And if you need to do any online research about the ballot measures in your state, check out the Buzz Log post I wrote about the hottest ballot issues, according to the searches people are doing on Yahoo! What do YOU think is the most important issue this election? Labels: ballot, buzz, elections, politics, voting, yahoo posted by Jess Barron @ 2:17 PM
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