Paul Krugman has his doubts about it – No deal, on the main story  of a $700 Billion Is Sought for Wall Street in Massive Bailout, or 2,000 dollars for every person this year.

I’ve been getting a few readers who are critizing me for having poltical views and writing about them in a Web Analytics blog.  On the other hand, we’re whitnesses to  what appears to be the collapse of the global financial system.   Why would that be off limits to talk about in a Web Analytics blog?

Ok, so it it needs to be about Web Analytics, what are the influencers here – at least, let’s put Social Media on it, and that’s running now – it’ll be ready in a few hours.

One thing I noticed about Radian6, is that ranking news stories based on “Engagement” works better if the story is a few days old, as you need that much time to get a lot of comments on stories where a reader can leave comments.

It seems to me that we’re living in historic times, in a lot of ways, and it’s all of our responsibilities, I think, to process what is happening around us and comment on it, as we can.

More, later.

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