See the Bias in the News (Courtesy of Microsoft?)
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch reports:
Microsoft Blews [ralph says: weird name, and from Microsoft?] is a news aggregator that goes beyond mere clustering of stories to show what’s important right now based on who’s linking to what in near real time. Blews, which is only looking at political news, also tells you the bias of the links in to a story.”
Here’s what is looks like:
“Liberal links are blue (blueberry) and on the left, conservative links are red (cherry) and on the right. The middle is the story itself in white (lemon). The dots around the edges suggest the emotional charge of the commentary.”
Arrington noted Microsoft’s visuals reminded him of a RocketPop:
Agreed. While this is still in the R&D phase, I’d like to know: hey Bill Gates, where does disinformation lies on the RocketPop spectrum…?
