Jeff Jarvis has written an interesting post writing off polls and listing a number of new ways to take the pulse of the nation during US election campaigning. They include:

• Google searches
• AdWords demand
• Mentions of candidates in blogs
• Textual analysis
• Web traffic
• Video traffic
• Microblogging traffic (Twitter)
• Social sites
• Prediction markets
• Bookmakers odds

William Henry Bonser Lamin is a First World War English soldier and his blog is proving to be a surprise hit in 2008.
William made notes or sent letters almost everyday from the cold, damp trenches of a WWI front line … and his descendants have been posting them to a blog, exactly 90 years to the day.

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