Risk

A few great quotes about risk from today's Quote of the Day email.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
- Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889 - 1964

It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
- Marilyn Moats Kennedy

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
- Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides), 1135 - 1204

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.
- Kin (Frank McKinney) Hubbard, 1868 - 1930

Super Bowl Twitterpation

One other cool thing I saw this morning was the twitter activity graph for Super Bowl Sunday it's interesting to see how tweets correspond with actual events. I didn't watch the game this year, but I did catch the highlights, and I still need to check out the ads on YouTube when I get a few spare minutes...any worth checking out this year?

Presidential Election Predictions and Resources

My guys at SEO.com recently spent some time analyzing Google Trends to predict the outcome of Super Tuesday. So far the results didn't quite match up (Google showed Obama on top after Tues), but it is interesting to look at how search popularity corresponds to the actual vote. We'll be posting a follow up to compared the trends estimates with the actual results within the next few days.

I've come across a few other interesting sites with data related to the election across the web including these:

Google Map/Twittervision mashup for Super Tuesday

This article on Search Engine Land with links to how voters and candidates are using the web this election season