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Obviously there's been a difference of opinion bringing Democrats into power in 2006. How much of this has been due to sites like Reddit and Digg posting Republican unfriendly articles? What were the most effective articles? While those sites themselves are in the best position to datamine, a meta site could extract data from all news meta sites, and (by reviewing users historys which are largely public) figure out at what time a poster's (or voter's) opinion changed. And what articles they were reading around that time. By being a meta-meta news site, we'd have an advantage of collecting data from both "neutral", left and right leaning meta news sites. The valuable data is pinpointing what articles are the most effective, and what users shifted positions and when. Most data is public, and some will be private, for sale only. Political organizations would pay for distilled analysis.

I thought of this idea when I was...

Wondering how much of 2006 election was impacted by digg and reddit stories, and wondering if the effect could be amplified.


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Merman
Merman Posted: November 17, 2006, 7:49 pm

I'd like to think that it wasn't posting unfriendly articles about Republicans that made a difference in bringing the Democrats to power in 2006. That the American Democratic system really does work. What I do think would make your idea top notch Gordon, is a meta site that brought together foreign newspapers that are published in English on various aspects of the American political scene. It seems to me that there is a greater degree of objectivity about politics when it is viewed from different cultures than the American view. I think that would make your site absolutely fantastic...I know I would be a regular visitor. What do you think?

Merman
Merman Posted: November 17, 2006, 7:51 pm

We really could use an edit function on this posting...I did not intend to click Suxorz...I really meant above "Kool" but can't get back to change it.

GordonMcDowell
GordonMcDowell Posted: November 28, 2006, 9:22 am

That's an interesting thought. Just a meta news filter, but one that pulls in news everywhere except North America. Hoping for something easy to implement, that could be done as a DIGG or REDDIT approach (but then is a bit derivative) otherwise you've got the meta news site editors spending all day filtering stories. Probably the easiest implementation would be location tags on DIGG or REDDIT that could be filtered out. Those sites seem to have a lot of self discipline in keeping their features limited, but I'd like to see such experiments take place.

Brenden
Brenden Posted: April 30, 2007, 12:44 am

oh gord... stay with comedy animal porn

 

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