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Microsoft Developing News Sorting Based On Political Bias
wiredog writes "The Washington Post is reporting that Microsoft is developing a program that classifies news stories according to whether liberal or conservative bloggers are linking to them and also measures the 'emotional intensity' based on the frequency of keywords in the blog posts." If you would like to jump right to the tool you can check out "Blews" on the Microsoft site.
Wait, breasts? o __ o
Totally off the main topic.... I have lived on the East Side of Los Angeles for 10 years and I am seeing a wide AND widening gap between the rich and the poor. A house here is literally 3 times as expensive as it was 6 years ago... and that is TODAY after the real estate market has crashed 20%. The manufacturing jobs like everywhere have disappeared and I don't think most Americans realized that Los Angeles has the most manufacturing jobs of anywhere in the country in sheer number and we have been hit just as hard as anywhere in the country to outsourcing to China. We have the largest homeless population, but at the same time have more households earning over $135,000.00 than anywhere in the US. If you are part of the middle class here it is like standing at the edge of a cliff as it starts to collapse.
I think the Los Angeles Times writes a lot on this story because it is compelling and it effects their readership (the poor are reading La Opinion and the rich are reading the New York Times). If you also think like many Angelinos that California is harbinger of trends throughout the United States (for better or for worse) then these stories are cautionary tales of what not to do./p?