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...house, this person of interest, John Burgess, but he’s not there, he’s missing at this time,” Daniel said. “This is the last person that we know she had contact with on the day of, through phone records. They’ve also contacted this guy’s friends—he’s involved in all kinds of crime, so they’re just questioning anyone he’s had contact with...
...down. But in the final stretch of the campaign, she was dispatched to Michigan, a state whose Catholic voters had longed to meet a Democrat they could talk to. In her first week alone, 72 people walked in the door and volunteered to help. Soon she had nuns doing phone banks, talking about the religious resonances of Kerry's positions. In the end, of course, Kerry lost the race. But he did 15 percentage points better with weekly churchgoing Catholics in Michigan than he did in other states...
...would a rational well phone-equipped person consider dropping a perfectly good device and plunking down $599 (because a 4 gig model is out of the question if an 8 gig model is available) for a new phone? With analysts estimating over 500,000 phones sold just last weekend, perhaps search term data could help us figure out why we've gone iPhone crazy...
...that contained "iPhone," the most common theme was cost, with five of the top 20 searches looking for pricing information. The 8th most popular (and optimistically naive) query confirms our suspicions from my last column, "free iPhone." The second most popular search mission is for reviews of the new phone. There were also a few disgruntled searchers - "problems with iPhone" was at #6, and "smashing my iPhone" in the #20 position actually led to a YouTube video that has had over 100,000 views since last week...
...best indicator of equipment-lust would be the top sites where people ended up after entering "iPhone" into their favorite search engine. A total of 56% of searchers landed on the Apple iPhone page or at AT&T's site; these individuals, like myself, probably just wanted the phone and wondered if it was worth the high cost. And 3% visited a MySpace page from an iPhone query, most likely to show off their bling to their cyber-friends, while 2.8% visited Wikipedia, perhaps having just come out of a cave, wondering what all this iPhone craze was about...