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Jeremy Zawodny : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org - Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org: very cool work by Andy and Joshua
deusx : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org - "While most political blogs are extremely partisan, their biases aren't immediately obvious to outsiders like me. I wanted to see, at a glance, how conservative or liberal the blogs were without clicking through to every article. With the help
nelson : Political link colouring - Interesting hack: categorize blogs by conservative / liberal, then colour links accordingly
joshua : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - I did the heavy lifting on the math side
wearehugh : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org
Greg Storey : Visualizing political bias with Greasemonkey. - Waxy is the Bill Nye of the Internet.
Andy Baio : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Like the rest of the world, I've been completely obsessed with the presidential election and nonstop news coverage. My drug of choice? Gabe Rivera's Memeorandum, the political sister site of Techmeme, which constantly surfaces the most controversial stori
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philgyford : Major pirate website shut down | | Guardian Unlimited Business - This is even worse. Appalling reporting from Katie Allen, using FACT, Trading Standards and the British Video Association as her only source of quotes. (via Haddock)
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15 month ago
Andy Baio : OiNK shut down, 24-year-old creator arrested - very sad, it was one of the strongest online communities; also, saying it's "lucrative" is a flat-out lie
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Huge pirate music site shut down - OiNK is raided. *sigh*. /me expects RIAA letter in 5.. 4.. 3.. #
philgyford : BBC NEWS | England | Tees | Huge pirate music site shut down - The only sources of quotes are the police and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Could we have a bit more balance perhaps BBC?
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19 month ago
Linkorama : All The News That's Fit to Print Out - NY Times Magazine article on Wikipedia editing during breaking events
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19 month ago
Linkorama : Editing Wikipedia about your work - Dan Bricklin: I've run across a related issue -- writing about your work, which, of course, may affect your biography indirectly.
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20 month ago
Linkorama : The (Bayesian) Advantage of Youth - The principal asset a young tech entrepreneur has is that they don’t know a lot of things.
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24 month ago
plasticbag : My friend Kerry gets sent scripts for a living and received one recently about a guy who has to live with a gay guy for three months to get an inheritance... - You really have to read the rest to really get it. My thoughts: increasingly somehow gay stereotyping has been disconnected from apparent anti-gay sentiment. We've gained freedom but lost our dignity. And it's something that I find infuriating.
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jimray : Slant of media is driven by audience, not owners, U.S. study shows - Catering to the audience
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33 month ago
Linkorama : Wales Discusses Political Bias - The following is an edited version of that email discussion, which touches on political bias, transparency issues, and how articles get to be “semi-protected†and what that means.
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51 month ago
plasticbag : Microsoft's new beta for search isn't in any way biased towards their products - I mean God knows there probably is only one web page on the entire internet that has "Word" on it - and it's not Merriam-Webster's dictionary at word.com! This is just dumb - people are not going to use and trust a search engine that so blatantly deforms
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51 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : Jon Stewart on "60 Minutes" tonight - Maybe he'll call Steve Kroft a dick, too.
Adam Gessaman : Jon Stewart on '60 Minutes'
plasticbag : Even more Jon Stewart (swoon) because I bloody like him, okay? This time on CBS... - "[Dick Cheney] has been my favorite, because he just goes out there to a room full of supporters and says, 'You know we're all going to die, right?' You're going to die unless I'm in charge.'"
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