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PARIS Le deuxième tour décisif du vote des adhérents socialistes pour départager Ségolène Royal et Martine Aubry , qui briguent toutes deux le poste de Première secrétaire, a pris fin vendredi à 22H00. ...

Amazon is at is again with its ker-azy pre-holiday "deal voting" promotion. Like last year, customers have the opportunity to choose from various items presented in three sets; the "winning" item is offered at an extreme discount, in extremely limited quantities, to those who voted for it – and are very, very quick with a browser.

This year, gamers will want to focus their efforts on the three PS3 bundles up for grabs, two of which will potentially be offered at $199. The "Blu-ray Family Bundle" (pictured) is currently in the lead with 57% of the vote, and includes an 80GB PS3, Blu-ray Remote, LittleBigPlanet, and the Pirates of the Caribbean movie trilogy on Blu-ray. Original price: $567.

The two other bundles both include 80GB systems with BD remotes; the "Blu-ray Sci-Fi Bundle" comes with Firefly: The Complete Series on BD and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, while the "Blu-ray Action Bundle" ($229) packs a Blu-ray James Bond movie six-pack and Far Cry 2. Get out the vote ... and good luck!

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://promotions.amazon.com/gp/cv/vote?ie=UTF8amp;voteRoundId=A1P5TC6ARW18FQamp;round=1amp;voteItemId=A3R7LQD1P7U2UFamp;ty=1"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/amazon.ps3.199.490.jpg" //abr / div align="left"Amazon is at is again with its emker-azy/em pre-holiday "deal voting" promotion. a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/16/amazon-opens-voting-for-heavily-discounted-systems/"Like last year/a, customers have the opportunity to choose from various items presented in three sets; the "winning" item is offered at an emextreme/em discount, in emextremely limited/em quantities, to those who voted for it - and are very, emvery/em quick with a browser. br /br /This year, gamers will want to focus their efforts on the three PS3 bundles up for grabs, two of which will potentially be offered at $199. The "Blu-ray Family Bundle" (pictured) is currently in the lead with 57% of the vote, and includes an 80GB PS3, Blu-ray Remote, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/littlebigplanet"emLittleBigPlanet/em/a, and the emPirates of the Caribbean/em movie trilogy on Blu-ray. Original price: $567.br /br /The two other bundles both include 80GB systems with BD remotes; the "Blu-ray Sci-Fi Bundle" comes with emFirefly: The Complete Series /emon BD and emStar Wars: The Force Unleashed/em, while the "Blu-ray Action Bundle" ($229) packs a Blu-ray emJames Bond /emmovie six-pack and a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/far-cry-2"emFar Cry 2/em/a. Get out the vote ... and good luck!br / /div /divp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/vote-for-amazons-199-ps3-bundle/"Vote for Amazon's $199 PS3 bundle/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:30:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://promotions.amazon.com/gp/cv/vote?ie=UTF8amp;voteRoundId=A1P5TC6ARW18FQamp;round=1amp;voteItemId=A3R7LQD1P7U2UFamp;ty=1Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/vote-for-amazons-199-ps3-bundle/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1379881/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/vote-for-amazons-199-ps3-bundle/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Ha75uwSsAbtvpf4157US-VD2h7c/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Ha75uwSsAbtvpf4157US-VD2h7c/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=GSZTwKGP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=GSZTwKGP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=1OeNoc1k"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=1OeNoc1k" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/UU8beYPRwEU" height="1" width="1"/

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=48ec2ee914b9b9e40054efe3maxX=300maxY=209" border="0" alt="ObamaMcCain_AP_10_07_08.jpg" title="ObamaMcCain_AP_10_07_08.jpg" width="300" height="209" /Now that the presidential election is over and Sarah Palin has skulked back to Alaska, we had wondered a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/how-politics-sites-plan-to-survive-post-election"how politics sites could survive/a a massive drop-off in post-election traffic./p pBut according to number-crunching whiz kid Nate Silver of a href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/"fivethirtyeight.com/a (itself a fledgling politics site), the predicted drop-off in traffic hasn't happened to everyone. A few politics-heavy Web sites (The Atlantic, Drudge, HuffPo) are even doing better./p pHere's a href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/friday-ecommerce-interlude.html"Nate's analysis/a of how well sites have done retaining their pre-election audiences (see his site for the full methodology). But big disclaimer up front: traffic numbers are based on Alexa, at best an imperfect tool./p pDoing well: (Percentage of pre-election traffic retained post-election.)/p ul liTheAtlantic.com: 125%/li liDrudgeReport.com: 124%/li liHuffingtonPost.com: 109%/li liNYTimes.com: 97%/li /ul pOf course, not everyone is surviving. Ouch:/p ul liElectoral-Vote.com: 30%/li liRealClearPolitics.com: 25%/li liRasmussenReports.com: 15%/li liGallup.com: 12%/li liJohnMcCain.com: 9%/li /ul pAnd fivethirtyeight.com itself? Retaining 59% of its traffic. But Nate, you have access to better analytics for your own site than Alexa. Why don't you give publish the real numbers so we know how accurate your analysis is?/p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/how-politics-sites-plan-to-survive-post-election"How Politics Sites Plan To Survive Post-Election/abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/three-reasons-political-sites-are-glad-the-election-is-over"Three Reasons Political Sites Are Glad The Election Is Over/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/R3xdvtBeqIjFC07pAlbLmb40HSY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/R3xdvtBeqIjFC07pAlbLmb40HSY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=kzzkhQRP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=kzzkhQRP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=IHudzL3h"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=VbZJ9mqk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=OWHtWOmO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=OWHtWOmO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=rqo7YXJn"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=UEXwMyyL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=66iqp0PU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=vGEX6z8B"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/2oS-9q7UPRE" height="1" width="1"/

Stephen Farrell / New York Times:
Protests in Baghdad on U.S. Pact  —  BAGHDAD — More than 10,000 Iraqis, mostly supporters of the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, gathered in Baghdad's Firdos Square on Friday to protest the security agreement with the United States that Parliament is scheduled to vote on Monday.

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pI tripped over a reference to artificial intelligence the other day. I guess I tripped because it's not a term I hear very much any more. Maybe it's because I hang around with a lot of geeky people, but it seems quaint and maybe a little pretentious./p pInstead, I hear about a lot of very specific techniques: Bayesian networks, collaborative filtering and the slope-one algorithm. I guess those fall under the artificial intelligence umbrella, but often it's really a matter of harvesting human intelligence and then acting on the results./p pGoogle has just turned on a change that reportedly has been a href=http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/20/google-makes-major-interface-change-to-search-searchwiki/ in a fairly wide test,/a giving logged-in Google users a chance to vote up/down specific items returned by search queries. /p pThis is a huge change for Google, which made its mark by observation-based harvesting of human intelligence. Both Google Search and Google News observe the results of human decisions and use those observations to recommend items. /p pGoogle Search places a high value on inbound links, which are considered to reflect whether a page is authoritative. If a lot of people link to a page, it must be good. This is why blog spammers prowl the net, posting comments that sneakily embed a link to their websites./p pGoogle News looks at the relative prominence that has been given to a story by editors at thousands of news-related websites, then uses that information to help design its top-level presentation. Rather than reflecting the news judgment of an editor at Google (there isn't one), Google reflects a sort of broad consensus among human editors./p pThe new Google feature -- which it calls SearchWiki -- switches gears and asks people to take an overt action to provide it with information about human judgment./p pLet me bring this home to the world of news sites. This is a good thing because the scale and impact of Google will significantly broaden the pool of people who are in the habit of explicitly evaluating items on the net. This is a habit we can use to our advantage./p pMany news sites are adding rate this item features, then using that to display lists of actively top rated stories, often paired with observationally ranked most emailed and most viewed. That's one way to use the information, but it's a fairly naive way./p pI'm far more interested in how we might use this information to generate personalized recommendations using collaborative-filtering principles and that mysterious slope-one algorithm that I mentioned. /p pAs so often is the case, there's a href=http://drupal.org/project/crealready a Drupal module for that/a, one that originated as a 2006 Google Summer of Code project. As we collect rankings, ratings and other overt evaluations on our websites, I'm looking forward to pointing the recommendation module at that data and seeing what comes out of it./p

Wall Street Journal:
Al Franken's Minnesota  —  More postelection funny business.  —  Al Franken's campaign takes exception to our recent description of the curious goings-on in Minnesota's Senate vote count.  We're delighted to hear his growing vote total is all routine.  But who needs to worry about votes discovered …

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