One Clue To Romney's Veep Pick

Summary

August 7, 2012: The author proposes examining the frequency of Wikipedia edits of possible vice presidential candidates for Mitt Romney to determine who will be picked, noting that back in 2008, the Wikipedia entry of Sarah Palin experienced a flurry of edits before she was announced as a candidate. At the time of writing of this article, the leader was Senator Rob Portman of Ohio.

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Game and Story Use

• In a realistic near future setting (including Cyberpunk), this kind of data mining is likely to be extremely common. Make referrals to such "unusual net activity" when the PCs are doing online research on something.
• In a setting with postmodern magic, such as Unknown Armies, this might be an entirely new form of divination - searching the net for "random noise" to detect deeper activities of the Occult Underground.