Part of our mission at Reuters.com is to help our readers anticipate what’s around the corner. We do that through expert analysis of complex stories, factboxes laying out possible scenarios for milestone events and insight from columnists such as James Saft.

Now we’re trying out a new tool to help our readers figure out what’s next, and have some fun along the way. It’s a tie-up between our Reuters Lab team and Hubdub, a news prediction site where users compete at predicting the outcomes of   news stories. Hubdub is an example of a news prediction market that quotes prices for the likelihood of an event occurring. You’ll find some links to the theory behind such markets on the Hubdub FAQ . We’re not making any claims for the accuracy of these markets, but we think our readers will find Hubdub an interesting way to participate in the analysis of news events.

You’ll find Hubdub questions from Reuters sprinkled throughout our blogs in the form of the live graphs show below and on the Reuters page on Hubdub. If you sign up for a Hubdub account, send us a friend invite and we’ll let you know whenever we post a new question.

Who will use the word “regulation” most in the first presidential debate?

Will the National Bureau of Economic Research announce in 2008 that the U.S. is in recession?

Will the U.S. unemployment rate rise in September from August’s 6.1 percent?

Photo: Talk show host Tyra Banks offers Barack Obama a crystal ball during a taping of “The Tyra Banks Show” shown October 1, 2007. REUTERS/Jason Kempin/Warner Bros/Handout

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Amid the anarchists, pro-life picketers and anti-war protesters at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Reuters reporter Ed Stoddard talks to a fervid anti-birdwatching activist.

Yes, you read that sentence correctly. The shadowy organization “Stop Bird Porn “ is concerned that birdwatching is a “gateway” to voyeurism: “If people start with birds, they move on to squirrels, bears, mountain goats and eventually humans.

[Editor’s note: Our highly attuned sarcasm detectors have determined that there may be a bit of satire going on here.]

Last week at the Democratic National Convention, Columnist Dave Barry took on the Stop Bird Porn crowd in Denver.

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Reuters Inside the Tent has more than 40 delegates and other attendees in St. Paul and Denver, equipped with video cameras to capture the conventions from the ground up. Irvine is not a Reuters employee and any opinions expressed are his own.Click here for a full list of contributors.Click here for more Inside the Tent blogs.Click here for more Reuters 2008 election coverage.

The following video was made by Kelly Nuxoll of Huffington Post’s Off the Bus, a partner in the Reuters Inside the Tent project.

Inside the Tent has more than 40 delegates and other attendees in Denver and St. Paul, equipped with video cameras to capture the conventions from the ground up. Nuxol is not a Reuters employee and any opinions expressed are her own.

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