Cameron Marlow of Overstated.com and Blogdex is giving a lunchtime talk at the Berkman Center. It’s on Political Hacks, i.e., hacking politics. (His slide is here.)

He gives lots of examples of people using the Net to take advantage of information that’s already been there. e.g., www.FundRace.org. Don’t miss his analysis of the debates here and here. (That second link goes to an auto-summary of the debates. I once did the same thing for the book of Genesis.)

We played around a bit with a tool Cameron wrote that maps the frequency of phrases in the two candidates’ stump speeches, mapped across time. Some surprises. Try searching for saddam, osama, health care, vietnam, lawyers, and teresa.

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