TruthAtLast
03-19-2008, 03:26 PM
Friend of mine showed me this new political site. Seems like a digg type site for political news. Not sure exactly how it works yet but it looks interesting.
www.skewz.com (http://www.skewz.com/)
Description:
http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2008/03/skewz-not-blews.html
Taken From the Link above:
Skewz was started by a group of 4 guys with diverse political views who engaged in frequent political sparring. We tired of the coarseness of the public political dialog and the tendency for both sides to talk past each other. The goal was not to make peace between liberals and conservatives. Instead, we wanted to encourage liberal-conservative dialogue by improving on the intelligence and thoughtfulness of the discussions. We hoped that doing so would take focus from the cosmetic appeal of parties and personalities that generate allegiances and place it instead on wit and wisdom of intelligent debate.
Part of the user experience is to report your own particular point of view. This is done via an interface which matches a set of issues (e.g. iraq, health care, ...) with your own particular 'skew' (left/right leaning, and by how much). Once you are logged in, you can then rate news by how you perceive the skew (do you think it is left/right leaning and by how much). The result is a digg like experience with a richer set of features (digg has, essentially, a single variable whereas Skews has at least two depending on how you count them).
www.skewz.com (http://www.skewz.com/)
Description:
http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2008/03/skewz-not-blews.html
Taken From the Link above:
Skewz was started by a group of 4 guys with diverse political views who engaged in frequent political sparring. We tired of the coarseness of the public political dialog and the tendency for both sides to talk past each other. The goal was not to make peace between liberals and conservatives. Instead, we wanted to encourage liberal-conservative dialogue by improving on the intelligence and thoughtfulness of the discussions. We hoped that doing so would take focus from the cosmetic appeal of parties and personalities that generate allegiances and place it instead on wit and wisdom of intelligent debate.
Part of the user experience is to report your own particular point of view. This is done via an interface which matches a set of issues (e.g. iraq, health care, ...) with your own particular 'skew' (left/right leaning, and by how much). Once you are logged in, you can then rate news by how you perceive the skew (do you think it is left/right leaning and by how much). The result is a digg like experience with a richer set of features (digg has, essentially, a single variable whereas Skews has at least two depending on how you count them).