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Bill Tancer is general manager of research at Hitwise, and author of Click: What Millions do Online and Why it Matters...
...earlier era, the author would have been a pollster. Now, as the general manager of global research at Hitwise, an online intelligence firm, he sifts through a database that reveals what more than 10 million Internet users do every day. With this digital treasure trove, Tancer (who is also a columnist for TIME.com can aid traders by gauging the market's direction on specific issues, as well as answer pressing questions such as which day of the week is most popular for porn websites (Friday). The author assures the reader that the user data he analyzes are "anonymized and aggregated...
...Schmidt is the candidate's drill sergeant, Mark Salter is his purported soul. A brooding writer who wears a goatee, faded Levis and a cigarette on his lips, Salter is known as the author of the McCain myth, the pen behind five of the Senator's books, the chief deacon in the Church of John. His soaring sentences are said to have been forged from experience, from a youth that had him pounding Iowa railroad ties and dating Miss USA. But neither man has too much patience for his own reputation. Salter, the writer, knows how the game works...
...remaining wines, 21 were pretty decent and 12 were bad. In general, the wines were better than I predicted, given the newness of many operations, but all the people who tasted with me thought the U.S. had let them down. "Overall, there were some stinkers," said Gary Vaynerchuk, author of 101 Wines Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight and Bring Thunder to Your World, who joined me in trying to guess which bottles were from which states. "That being said, the wines showed the potential of better things to come over the next five to 10 years...
...series of high-minded town-hall debates and the usual open access, but Barack Obama refused the debates, and the Obama-smitten media decided that the campaign is all about their new darling. "The race is as we found it," says Mark Salter, a close adviser and the co-author of McCain's five books. "We're not going to do anything dishonorable. But we are going...