Friday, September 24, 2004

Mudslinging Deadline

The deadline for voter registration is generally one month before the national election and thus is Monday, October 4, 2004. Register right off the L.W. Nixon Library website, a service provided by the American Library Association.

The Higher Education Technology Roundup of Converge magazine reports 9/23/04 that

"Arizona State University researchers developed an impartial judge to keep score of the mudslinging in this year’s presidential campaign. Professors Steve Corman and Kevin Dooley are using a computer to analyze the language in the news releases, speeches and Web logs put out by the campaigns of President Bush and his challenger, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. By looking on a daily basis for nasty comments that the software identifies through sophisticated language analysis, their computer generates the “ Crawdad Mud Meter” -- and also tracks how many themes the campaigns are generating."

Oh, and we've picked out the new carpet for the library, which will be installed over winter break. Should enhance the look of the library...

Singing,

Micaela

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