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In my previous post, I used the Omgili Buzz Graphs to compare the buzz between John McCain and Barack Obama. There are many sites that are embedding the graphs on their pages. We wanted to create an easy way for anyone to embed the widget on their personal home page. Using iGoogle gadgets, you can now embed as many Omgili Buzz Gadgets on your iGoogle homepage. The graphs are updated daily and you can compare up to 5 terms in one widget.
Just click on the following link to add Omgili Buzz Graph to your iGoogle homepage.
And don’t forget to share…

Enjoy,

Ran

For the past year and a half we had this question on the front page of Omgili. We followed the hopefuls before anyone knew it’s going to be McCain against Obama, and the Pailin/Biden running mates. In three days we will all know the answer, but in the meantime we can bring our best educated guesses.
Every day new polls predict the victory of Obama over McCain. The problem is that people might not always tell the whole truth about their decision, (We’re all familiar with the Bradley effect) and so the results are certainly not definitive.
I was curious if I can find more clues about the out come of the elections. It is true that people might be too “Politically Correct” to tell the truth, but on online forums, anonymity might uncloak more accurate results.
I ran two sets of queries on Omgili Buzz Graphs – One for Obama vs McCain to see the detailed and overall buzz about the two candidates in the past month, and a second for discussions mentioning only one candidate without the other.

Let’s take a look at the first query graphs:

As you can see, the number of discussions about Barack Obama is indeed higher than about McCain. We can also see that the number of discussions is rising over time as we approach Election Day. I must say that even though the number of discussions is higher for Obama, the margin is quite small (20%-30%) for Obama. I expected a much bigger delta.

The real interesting figure is on the second query. It is only natural that when you speak of one candidate you will also mention the other. I wanted to see how many discussions are taking place around a single candidate Obama or McCain, in other words, who is more “interesting”?

Now these results have a much more distinct trend. First of all, there is MUCH more discussion about Barack Obama than about McCain. Furthermore, as we approach Election day, the number of discussions about Obama is increasing rapidly whereas with McCain the number is decreasing (up to 400%).
Brand Monitoring, and Web 2.0 based research is a very hot topic these days. I am not saying this is a qualified research, but it will sure be interesting to see if there is a correlation between the above graphs and the outcome of the elections.

Funny thing I came across today, on the daily buzz here at Omgili: The phrase “wolf in sheeps clothes” came up in a whole bunch of discussions. Of course I immediately assumed that they all refer to one thing, say some politician or another. But to my surprise, it is just a common phrase being used world wide in many discussions on various topics. In one discussion, the phrase refers to a sound system in a Saab car, in another it refers to a different car, a Mazda 3 this time, and in yet another discussion it refers to a cell phone, though the use of the term there is obscure… In other discussions it actually does refer to a certain politicians, namely Barack Obama, and I have seen references to Mike Huckabee as well. Interesting, is it not? How one phrase is threaded throughout so many different topics. As it turns out “a wolf in sheep clothes” is a popular phrase these days, who knew?

Another frequent phrase is: Spoiler Alert. For reasons anyone can imagine. I mean, everyone is talking about new movies, new television shows, new games, and when you want to mention something others may have not seen yet, it is just common Internet courtesy to provide fair warning. So it’s not such a mystery that this phrase shows up in numerous discussions.

And, oh, I almost forgot, Age of Conan, just a game… nothing special…. some idiot on a horse (in this multi participant game) blocked a bridge and bugged a whole bunch of other players for a couple of hours. The video made it onto youtube, which in turn created some discussion on the topic. Not very interesting unless you are a player…

I’m not.

Have a great week!

Hi! I’m Rachel! Nice to meet you!

I am the aspiring new blogger for Omgili.

Mom to one hansom baby boy. Married to Co-founder of Omgili.com, and filling my days of maternity leave by blogging for Omgili.

Anyway, I’m not whats interesting, there is so much more out there that is! Just look at all the new headlines creating jibber jabber over the Internet airwaves! I’m here to keep you informed and up to date on any and all discussions going on online.

How about that kid who slapped his mom? Simply awful! Omgili’s CEO, Ran Geva, asked me the other day what I would do if my kid ever did that to me and I answered without blinking that that would never happen to me! How do you raise a kid to act like that? It’s not just the public school system. It can’t be! You don’t learn to treat people like that in school! If you ask me it has to derive from examples at home, his mom is probably a battered woman and expects that kind of treatment.

No matter how you address a teacher or an adult (being first name or Sir), there is no excuse for a child with a mouth like that! As a child I would have been scared to address an adult in anything close to that manner. I assume that anyone who is not a sociopath would have that kind of common sense as well. (but you know what they say about assuming…)

Did you see that silly video about how the Internet is going to come to an end in the year 2012? It got a whole bunch of chat going on. But you know the real interesting thing about this video is that it probably would have hardly been watched by anyone if not for the boobalitious presenter, Athene. Athene has several posts on youtube, most of them with titles including the word “sex” and having little if anything to do with the act itself. I’m sure many a man (or a young boy) go in and watch in hope of catching a bare boob. Brilliant way to promote yourself online, if you ask me…

and yes, that’s why this post has the word boob in it’s title.

Another thing that caught my attention this week is the game Age of Conan. But I need to do more research on that topic before babbling on about it.

Did you know Bo Diddley died? Yesterday.

Did you know Bo Diddley?

I actually heard of him for the very first time today, and in a very random way. Apparently Nike used him in a recent commercial which is getting a lot of hype, I guess on account of Bo Diddley’s death.

But let me look into it a little further before babbling on about it…

O.K., So, Bo Diddley, whom I knew Diddly squat about 5 minutes ago was a great musician in the 50’s and 60’s, of the 20^th century. He actually took the name as a stage name instead of his real name Ellas Otha Bates. With a name like that I would a stage name too. (Which leads me to think I might need a pen name since my name is not all that easy to pronounce either…)

So how did Nike come to use Bo Diddley in their commercial? They were actually leading with a different Bo, Bo Jackson. A football runnerback, (whatever that means, I’m a girl, I pride myself in not needing to know such stuff).

Anyway, Nike commercials always entertaining, always ahead of their time, and today very much talked about in forums and blogs around the web since Bo Diddley’s death.

RIP Bo Diddley.