Slashdot: InterviewsNews for nerds, stuff that mattersSkewz.com Founder Vipul Vyas Answers Your Questions About Media Bias- April 14, 2008 You asked questions about Skewz.com on April 2nd and April 3rd. Here are your answers. This media bias stuff is tricky to deal with. Both Skewz and Microsoft's Blewz are trying, anyway. Skewz people say they want to jump into the conversation attached to this post, so if you have any follow-up questions please feel free to ask them.Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/270037350/article.pl Ask Skewz.com Founder About Detecting Media Bias- April 2, 2008 Skewz.com is not the Microsoft-funded Blews experiment that is supposed to help detect rightness and leftness in stories based on blogs that link to them. Instead of detecting blog links, Skewz relies on readers to submit and rate stories, and even tries to pair stories that have "liberal" and "conservative" biases so that you can get multiple takes on the same event or pronouncement. The Skewz About page explains how it works. The site has drawn a fair amount of "media insider" attention,...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/262782262/article.pl |