Everyone's a Winner... (unless you bet on Nom de Jeu)

First of all congratulations to the United states and President Obama - here's to a better world!

Secondly an apology to anyone who followed my link to the 'Telstra Bigpond' Melbourne Cup coverage.  If your experience was anything like mine and the coverage lagged when your horse was winning, cut back in as soon as the race was over and you ran out of your Dorm in your Swedish halls of residence, jumped on the couch and started whooping  'show me the money, show me the money' before realising much to your embarassment (wow a triple Homage to Tom Cruise!), that your horse had come no where near winning... then I am truly sorry.

So it turns out the Melbourne Cup was not as an exact a predictor of the US election as I thought it might have been but I should point out that neither the 'Red Lord' (although this particular horse did make a very eloquent concession speech)  or the 'Prize Lady' came in anywhere near winning but neither did the horse in the blue jersey Nom de Jeu (much to my disappointment).  

However, I was not completely wrong not only did Obama win the US election (You have all probably seen it but in the interest of fair and balanced coverage and because it is a great speech, here is the link), but it also turns out that the Australian media cares more about the winner of the Melbourne Cup.  The heading picture was taken from a great little website called Newseum which catalogues the front pages of Newspapers around the world (for a Wikinomics perspective on this click here).