About

Yes, ’tis the season again.

The political season, that is, and we here at NextStage have a long history (going back to 2004) of knowing more about the candidates than they want you to know we know about them. You can read some of the background on this in Reading Virtual Minds V1: Science and History or BizMediaScience’s Political archive.

Originally FindMeFaster CEO Matt Van Wagner suggested we use our tools to analyze and post political campaigns back in the 2003-4 cycle. We posted on who said what and where they said it every day. It was a blog before people really knew what a blog was and we got great reviews, two that I remember fondly are ClickZ New Media columnist Rob Graham‘s “This is the closest thing to a crystal ball I’ve ever seen.” and Democratic National Convention Knight Ridder blogger Adam Smeltz’s “For political junkies, a slice of heaven.”

Since then we’ve been interviewed on TV, in print and in podcasts about our ability to predict outcomes weeks if not months in advance.

So here we are, at it again.

We’ll be using our NextStage Political Analyzer tool to evaluate material sent to us and other things that catch our fancy during the 2012 political cycle.

Enjoy!