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		<outline text="DaveNet: &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2000/11/08/florida&quot;&gt;Florida!&lt;/a&gt;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://quadoshock.editthispage.com/2000/11/08&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/worryAboutDubya.gif&quot; height=&quot;101&quot; width=&quot;75&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot; vspace=&quot;10&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Last night's story: First the networks said Gore won Florida, then Pennsylvania and Michigan -- the key &quot;battleground&quot; states. Bush said no way, Florida is too close. They took it back. Later they called it for Bush. By that time it was the margin, the candidate who would win Florida would win the presidency. Gore calls Bush to concede. A Florida vote counter calls Gore while he's on his way to give his concession speech. &quot;Wait a minute Al, it's not over yet.&quot; Gore calls Bush and says &quot;Dubya, I changed my mind.&quot; Less than 2,000 votes separate the two in Florida. We await a recount. &lt;i&gt;What a mess!&lt;/i&gt;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/questionMark.gif&quot; height=&quot;45&quot; width=&quot;35&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;12&quot; vspace=&quot;8&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;How did the networks &lt;u&gt;all&lt;/u&gt; get it wrong in Florida &lt;u&gt;twice&lt;/u&gt;? Just listened to PBS's News Hour; they interviewed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=Warren+Mitofsky&amp;btnG=Google+Search&quot;&gt;Warren Mitofsky&lt;/a&gt;, the statistician who advised CNN and CBS on their projections last night. The networks pool a lot of resources. We have so much faith in their projections. It seems safe to assume that in the future we won't believe these reports so readily, and let's look to the networks to separate their processes. What will the statisticians learn from the experience of making two mistakes in one race? Could it possibly have been more confusing? It's Y2K, and Murphy is having a blast."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://mailpages.scripting.com/2000/11/08&quot;&gt;Mail&lt;/a&gt; starting 11/08/00."/>
		<outline text="Upside: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3a089a8b1&quot;&gt;The Tech Vote&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="It's time for a survey: &lt;a href=&quot;http://surveys.userland.com/surveys/run/dave@userland.com/theDayAfterSurvey&quot;&gt;Who will win?&lt;/a&gt;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2000/LAW/11/columns/cossack.election.11.06/&quot;&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The reason we have an Electoral College is that the founding fathers thought there would be several candidates for president and that the Electoral College would narrow the field to two or three. Then the House would make the decision. But the party system made the Electoral College a rubber stamp and the process simply didn't work out the way the founding fathers thought it would.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bricklin.com/log/ballotusability.htm&quot;&gt;Dan Bricklin&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Larger-than-expected Buchanan numbers in some areas known to have only elderly, Democratic-leaning voters, along with complaints about ballot usability by those people, brought this to national attention. I heard about it from a relative in Florida before the voting closed.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Valdosta State University is doing a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.valdosta.edu/survey/2000election/&quot;&gt;survey&lt;/a&gt; on politics and the Web. &quot;The purpose of this survey is to examine the Internet’s influence on the U.S. political process. Although we recognize that the Internet is a global medium, we asked that only those individuals who are eligible to vote in the U.S. participate in this survey.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="CNN: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/results/FL/index.html&quot;&gt;Florida vote count&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="NY Times: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/08/politics/08CND-CAMP.html&quot;&gt;Florida will prove decisive&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;The outcome of the presidential race between Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore balanced early this morning on no more than a few hundred votes in the closely contested state of Florida.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://search.editthispage.com/?q=dubya&quot;&gt;Search&lt;/a&gt; for &quot;Dubya&quot; on UserLand-hosted Manila sites."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/elections/surfer2000.htm&quot;&gt;Washington Post&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;All the major television networks have declared Republican George W. Bush the 43rd president of the United States, based on the Texas governor's victory in Florida.&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/washPostOoops.gif&quot;&gt;Screen shot&lt;/a&gt;.)"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/bushWinsAthriller.jpg&quot;&gt;This year's&lt;/a&gt; Dewey Defeats Truman front page."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/cnnOooops.gif&quot;&gt;CNN's&lt;/a&gt; Dewey Defeats Truman home page."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theonion.com/onion3640/bush_or_gore.html&quot;&gt;The Onion&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;In one of the narrowest presidential votes in U.S. history, either George W. Bush or Al Gore was elected the 43rd president of the United States Tuesday, proclaiming the win 'a victory for the American people and the dawn of a bold new era in this great nation.'&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldlink.co.uk/2000/11/08&quot;&gt;WorldLink&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;On this extraordinary post-election morning, spare a thought for those of us in a European time zone.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="The best site?">
			<outline text="I'd like to give an award to the news site that did the best job of covering the US presidential election from a technical and user interface standpoint. "/>
			<outline text="If you want to nominate a site, post a message in the discussion group, in response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://discuss.userland.com/msgReader$21956&quot;&gt;this message&lt;/a&gt;. Then I'll run a survey, and ask the Scripting News readers, who are some of the best Web designers in the world, to choose one. "/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://rc3.org/cgi-bin/archive.pl?year=2000&amp;month=11&amp;day=8&quot;&gt;Rafe Coburn&lt;/a&gt;: \&quot;The best election Web site I found last night was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.voter.com/&quot;&gt;Voter.com&lt;/a&gt;.\&quot;"/>
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		<outline text="Non-election links">
			<outline text="Sun's &lt;a href=&quot;http://java.sun.com/features/2000/11/dot-net.html?frontpage-banner&quot;&gt;analysis&lt;/a&gt; of Dot-Net. &quot;Is .NET a radically new and innovative platform, as Microsoft claims? Or is it another migration path for Windows developers who have not yet embraced the Java platform?&quot;"/>
			<outline text="PC World evangelical &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pcworld.com/news/article.asp?aid=32724&quot;&gt;piece&lt;/a&gt; on Mac OS X."/>
			<outline text="Low End Mac: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lowendmac.com/myturn/2k1108.html&quot;&gt;OS X Dooms Apple&lt;/a&gt;."/>
			<outline text="Apache's Turbine framework &lt;a href=&quot;http://java.apache.org/turbine/features.html&quot;&gt;includes&lt;/a&gt; XML-RPC support."/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://bluetooth.weblogs.com/&quot;&gt;The Bluetooth Weblog&lt;/a&gt; continues to impress."/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.userland.com/zopeNewbies/discuss/msgReader$857?mode=day&quot;&gt;Zope performance&lt;/a&gt; benchmark pointers."/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flasharcade.com/urinal.html&quot;&gt;A little game&lt;/a&gt; to test your maleness."/>
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		<outline text="Interview on weblogs">
			<outline text="A major US newspaper found EditThisPage.Com and got excited. Fun interview. Why are weblogs happening now? Answer -- they're not new, but they're exploding now. "/>
			<outline text="After the dot-com euphoria, the dust settles and people are doing it for love. Amateur journalism. All these ideas worked in the interview."/>
			<outline text="BTW, I told the reporter about our competition and gave her links to their sites. This is the proud way to do it. The readers deserve the chance to hear about our competitors."/>
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		<outline text="Localization">
			<outline text="Manila is popular in Germany, Italy and The Netherlands because &lt;a href=&quot;http://frontier.userland.com/stories/storyReader$4491&quot;&gt;it's localized&lt;/a&gt;. The Managing Editor of a Manila site can choose the native language of the site. Then all prompts and messages, the entire user interface, is in the user's language. "/>
			<outline text="So far most of the press has come from English-speaking countries. This is probably because the reporters don't know about Manila's European-friendly features."/>
			<outline text="An example, here's a French language &lt;a href=&quot;http://jiz.editthispage.com/&quot;&gt;weblog&lt;/a&gt; for Zope developers."/>
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