Ex-Yahooer and Delicious founder Joshua Schachter has created a GreaseMonkey script and Firefox plugin that displays the political leanings of blogs and news sites on Memeorandum, a news aggregator.

Based on linking behavior, sites that are shaded blue are supposedly Democrat oriented, while sites shaded red are Republican oriented. Presumably, sites with no shading are either neutral or sites for which not enough information is known.

I’ve just gotta try this out…

Source: Michael Arrington, “Delicious, Upcoming Founders To Show You Political Bias Of News Sites”, TechCrunch, October 10, 2008

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