I have been tied up with other writing assignments to post on this blog lately. I saw this video on Facebook from Real Time with Bill Maher where he criticizes comic book fans and thought I should comment. I posted it on my Facebook and got one negative comment and one positive one. The negative […]
It has been one month since this online poll has begun. There have been 27 responses to the poll so far with a wide variety in the books receiving votes. Of the 112 books listed, 69 received at least one vote. The top vote receivers so far are listed below. Title, Author (Year) Votes (%) […]
My social media experiment did not work. Of the nine local and statewide races I followed, only 5 winners had the greater social media presence (see table below). In 2016 Facebook followings predicted the winner in 8 of the 9 races. Does that mean that Russia does not care about our elections any more or […]
On September 29, at the Homecoming parade for Shaler High School I met Lyndsey Williams who is running for the PA State Senate post for district 38. This is a district once held by Jim Ferlo who was an outspoken advocate for single payer/medicare for all for decades. In 2014 his district was redrawn […]
I have taken the plunge and bought a Domain name for this blog, https://alleghenyindependent.media/. For the time being I will stay with blogger to see how it influences the traffic I get. I will focus my first post on the upcoming 2018 election looking at the candidate’s social media followings. In the 2016 election I […]
I was planning a post on a published study that showed how cities and towns with local newspapers have greater government efficiency. Events in Annapolis, MD yesterday seem to have added significance to the post. A gunman who was angry at the Capitol Gazette for reporting on his harassing of a woman, went into their […]
Usually for my anniversary posts I look at the web traffic statistics for the site. This year I thought I would take stock of where the blog is and where it will go. Seven years ago I began the blog by conducting data driven journalism before I had even heard of the term. This year […]
PodCamp Pittsburgh is back for 2017 at the Point Park University Library. It is a social media unconference where practitioners share the tricks of the trade. It is free to attend and if you like you can propose your own topic to share your wisdom with the masses. I have presented at three previous PodCamps. […]
Correlation in the Gain in Facebook Followers and Poll Numbers for GOP Presidential Candidates in December Last week I summarized the change in Facebook followers pre and post Presidential Debate for a sample of the candidates in Pennsylvania. In the primaries I showed that there was a strong correlation between the change Facebook followings of […]
Trump Followers on PA Facebook Page I had originally planned to do a post looking at Facebook pages for candidates for Pennsylvania but recent events in the campaign have forced me to update the numbers I collected on Friday before the nasty video and debate occurred. Above is a graph showing the number of new […]
