Elias Torres

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Pundit’s Monitor

This is an experiment blog monitoring tool written for my last class project at Harvard. We are monitoring at the moment 30,000 political blogs that mention candidates in this 2006 Races (elections). Everything is grouped by state and it shows for each race blog entries on each candidate from the past few days. I plan to keep running this page with up-to-date information until a few days after the elections on November 7th. If you have any comments or suggestions, please make sure to leave them at the bottom of the page. If you are interested in the technical details, please read my post on the monitor.

1. Elias Torres » Blog Archive » Pundit’s Monitor 10.31.06 / 2am
   [...] Proceed to the Pundit’s Monitor.These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
2. Brandon Erik Bertelsen 10.31.06 / 3am
   This is really interesting. I wonder what the possibility of combining this and this (http://www.wefeelfine.org/) to create some type of ranking system for the candidates. The possibility of using their visualization methods for this geographical targeting would be, well, neat.
3. Richard Cyganiak 10.31.06 / 10am
   Impressive. I don’t follow U.S. politics, but if I did then I would suggest to turn this into a permanent service with per-politician and per-state RSS feeds, and to display the name of the source next to each post.
4. ~wingerz » Political blog tracker 10.31.06 / 4pm
   [...] Posted in development, web, technology at 4:26 pm by wingerz [...]
5. Elias Torres » Blog Archive » Pundit Monitor Feeds 11.01.06 / 7pm
   [...] Pundit Monitor Feeds For those of you lurking, we now have feeds in our Pundit’s Monitor thanks to Wing for adding RSS support and to Sam Ruby for submitting the Atom patch.These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
6. ~wingerz » Pundit’s Monitor: Afterthoughts 11.09.06 / 1am
   [...] The elections have come and gone (I voted), and the Pundit’s Monitor has left me thinking about how much better it could have been had the content sources been marked up with simple, barebones eRDF or RDFa. Elias was searching for full names (like “Arnold Schwarzenegger“) in the text of blog posts, so he would have missed references to informal names (like “Ahhhnold” or “the Governator“); clearly these would have been the most amusing entries to read. There were a also few false positives lurking in the results for the candidates with more common names. And the world probably would have come crashing down around us had their been two candidates with the same name. [...]

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