Poli-Techno Memeorandum Colors

If you’re running Firefox and you’ve installed Greasemonkey, you can now view memeorandum in full living “political-bias” colors.

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 of del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter, we used a recommendation algorithm to score every blog on Memeorandum based on their linking activity in the last three months.

So… I’m now running the script w/ my browser, and I see The Moderate Voice showing up on memeorandum as dark blue. Evidently, TMV links to a lot of stories that liberals seem to find interesting.

Note: 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 bloggers linked to before, relative to all other bloggers, and groups them accordingly.

Things that make you go Hmmmm….

As an aside… my personal blog is in the data set also, but since I’m no longer linked by memeorandum, I haven’t got a clue what color I’d show up as. The data points they used surpass my ability to interpret…