Many readers have expressed their unhappiness over recent months with the fact that you currently need to have an account with this or that social network to comment at TPM — currently only with Facebook.
I wanted to let you know that we are planning to move to a new system that would allow you to register and login directly with TPM. I anticipate this will happen prior to the election.
I want to give a big shout-out to our TPM2012 convention coverage team. You can see them on location here (from left to right: Benjy Sarlin, Sara Libby and Evan McMorris-Santoro).
A great job this week in Tampa and I’m looking forward to week two next week in Charlotte. I hope you are too.
As I’ve mentioned many times before, the tech usage of our readership skews significantly from that of the population at large. Still, the trends are notable and in line with those broader movements.
Along those lines, August 2012 was the first month in TPM’s almost 12 year history when the percentage of visits coming from computers running on a Windows Operating System fell below 50%.
Relatedly, the percentages of users using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser has fallen to just 16.8%.
To give some perspective, this time in the last presidential cycle (August 2008), the Operating System percentage was 72% and the browser number was 39%.
TPM Reader JB mulls the liar issue …
I am beginning to think that the major undercurrent of this campaign is the use of lies, false quotes, and fabrications surrounded by a covering of nonspecific bromides against a sitting President with a below average economy.
Chair’s national stage debut overshadowed by fellow peformer’s epic fail.
From the official Twitter account of Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) last night: “Nothing like 80’s coke addicted James Brown to close out a Republican convention #GOPconvention”
Apologies ensued.