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Visualizing political bias.

An extension that color-codes the blogs at Memeorandum.

Memeorandum is my favorite place to start when looking for political stories to blog about. It's a (somewhat lazy) way to see what everybody's talking about at the moment. With this extension you can see... well, what exactly are you seeing?

The colors don?t necessarily represent each blogger?s personal views or biases. It?s a reflection of their linking activity. The algorithm looks at the stories that blogger?s linked to before, relative to all other bloggers, and groups them accordingly. People that link to things that only conservatives find interesting will be classified as bright red, even if they are personally moderate or liberal, and vice-versa. The algorithm can't read minds, so don't be offended if you feel misrepresented. It's only looking at the data.

The Moderate Voice notes its dark blue identification. And I come out bright red. [CORRECTION: I'm merely pink.] So, what to do with this information? Maybe I'll try, when I go to Memeorandum, to pick more "blue" stories...

Full post as published by Althouse on October 10, 2008 (boomark / email).