Ok, so you can’t really resist the temptation of the lates poll data on the presidential race? Nate Silver breaks down each of the 8 national tracking polls, and what time of day they’re released. It’s something special.
I’m still waiting to see the tightening, and Pollster’s average says maybe a little:

But the tastiest bit for [...]

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Online ads not the license to print money they were for a while, so the internet is doomed. Right?
In the UK:
Enders, a research group, estimates that the UK online display advertising market was at best flat in the third quarter, compared with the same period last year. Growth rates in recent years have been double [...]

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I’m not sure what to make of this. Got an email notifying me of a new Follower on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/VirtualPodium
Who does VirtualPodium turn out to be?
Turns out it’s a promotion, using the Daily Show/Colbert Report, with cooperation from Viacom in a promotion for Comcast, the cable company so beloved of the 27 million US households [...]

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This is the oped, as filed, in the 13 July 2008 Irish Mail on Sunday. The things I didn’t have space to get into in this column include thoughts on a slight gender split that will be a caveat, but it doesn’t affect the main point: the difference between conditions in Ireland and the rest [...]

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Boy meets phone. Boy loses phone through third party interference, miscommunication and misunderstanding. Boy wins phone back with help from commenter on blog.
A happy ending. Until the sequel.
It’s Mamma Mia!* crossed with WALL-E.
Took Herself to this last night as a — gift, penance, masochistic act? — and I laughed in spite of myself several [...]

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Front page comment from the Sunday Independent on the economy (13 July 2008):
“We are, it’s true, caught in the economic cataclysm that has hit the developed world, but this dreadful cycle will, in time, come to an end, though nobody can say when…
The onset of the recession was, however, eminently predictable. Mr Cowen and [...]

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Oh dear. Dalkey’s pending Starbucks must really be a lot scarier than the regular sort if it’s actually turning other traders into stone.

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I think John McCain’s economic adviser, Phil Gramm, has been spending too much time hanging around Ireland in the last couple of years. Everything’s fine. And it’s your problem if you think there’s a problem.
“You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession,” he told the Washington Times, saying of America, “We have sort [...]

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Well - I never thought I’d say this but I was glad to see someone defend Irish banks yesterday. Because John Hurley of the Central Bank did so without the usual lashing out that generally accompanies such statements - the wild, defensive, emotional lashing out being the things that (far more than any analyst report [...]

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Well, the forecasts get worse and worse. But I think that Dermot O’Leary from Goodbody has it pretty much right:
Sharply declining output in the construction sector, coupled with a consumer in retreat, is expected to contribute to a fall in output in the Irish economy in 2008 for the first time since 1983. We now [...]

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