Look at an electoral map such as those at CNN, New York Times, or Pollster, and it looks like America is a sea of red (for Republican) with pockets of blue (Democrat). The problem is conventional maps based on landmass do not accurately reflect the Electoral College. Instead they are an unwitting manifestation of media bias.

To remedy this, I approached Personal Democracy Forum founder Andrew Rasiej and we jointly commissioned web design firm StudioE9 (who donated a portion of their time) to create a map to accurately reflect each state’s electoral vote value.

It is, in essence, America as it really is. Click here to see it.

Have you ever wondered how Web 2.0 stalwarts like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter and the rest grew so fast? They went viral, of course. To use their products induces you to spread them. (What’s the sense of being on Facebook or Twitter if none of your friends are?)

My forthcoming book, the VIRAL LOOP, looks at how many of today’s most successful companies are being built to facilitate viral growth. But don’t confuse all this with a viral marketing campaign, which may yield an impressive one-time cascade of online traffic. Viral loops by definition must be replicable and are engineered to grow at staggering rates—far beyond any viral ad or Mentos-Diet Coke video. Reproducibility, in turn, suggests anyone should be able test features of a viral loop.
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