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BLOGS NOW BEING MONITORED FOR *TONE,* NOT TRUTH (ORWELLIAN)
Pasadena Sub Rosa ^ | February 13, 2009 | Wayne Lusvardi

Posted on 02/13/2009 12:13:26 PM PST by WayneLusvardi

You won't believe this one. But, then again, you might. A blogsite called Newstin (is that short for tin news?) is now rating blog posts based on wording *tone,* not truth. This is right out of the novel Fahrenheit 451 or George Orwell's novel 1984. Apparently, any content that is negatively *toned* toward Leftist ideas are labeled *negatively toned.* The web masters at Newstin call their monitoring program *Sentiment Analysis*

Excerpted from Newstin - http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/103990119 Sentiment Analysis is a tool developed by Newstin to indicate the overall tone of an article i.e., whether it has a positive, negative or neutral feel to it. For example, an article about an oil spillage at sea would most likely contain negative wording due to the effects of the incident. Our Sentiment-o-Meter provides readers with an indication of the tone of an article without reading it. Red represents negative tone, green positive and grey is for neutral tone: The higher the scale of the colour (from bottom to top), the greater the degree of the given sentiment.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: mindcrime; newstin; sentimentanalysis; thoughtcrime; tone
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1 posted on 02/13/2009 12:13:26 PM PST by WayneLusvardi
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To: WayneLusvardi

George Orwell come to life.


2 posted on 02/13/2009 12:14:57 PM PST by Nachum (Obama theme song: Ball of Confusion by the Temptations)
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To: WayneLusvardi

Oh goody! I got a tone for them...


3 posted on 02/13/2009 12:15:27 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
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To: WayneLusvardi

Well, they may as well add mine to their list. I have posted letters that I have sent to Zero. I have nothing good to say about him or his cohorts.


4 posted on 02/13/2009 12:15:43 PM PST by Enough_Deceit (Proud Mama of a US Marine and a US Soldier Bitterly Hanging On to Her Guns and Religion. Ooorahh!)
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To: WayneLusvardi

Considering liberals/communists are the most hate-filled, vile, totalitarian, violent idiots on the planet, can we expect leftist web sites will be marked as “Hate” sites?


5 posted on 02/13/2009 12:16:26 PM PST by CodeToad (Liberalism is Communism, and both are a mental disorder. Grow up.)
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To: CodeToad

Sounds like a good opportunity for some conservatives to start up a blog monitoring business and rate things using an inverted scale.


6 posted on 02/13/2009 12:18:12 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: WayneLusvardi
BLOGS NOW BEING MONITORED FOR *TONE,* NOT TRUTH (ORWELLIAN

How's THIS for a tone.......

FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!

7 posted on 02/13/2009 12:18:52 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: WayneLusvardi

I copied and pasted the address, went to the site and a an FR post was the first one there. “The Real Green Paradox: Staying in City May Reduce C02, But Importing City Water is Unsustainable”. It was, of course, negatively rated.


8 posted on 02/13/2009 12:19:13 PM PST by allmost
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To: allmost

I would have inserted a link but that garbage doesn’t deserve the hits IMO.


9 posted on 02/13/2009 12:21:16 PM PST by allmost
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To: WayneLusvardi
It seems to be a Czech private venture that sets out to search news (of all kinds) in a multiplicity of languages, and then organize it for customers.

This is a DATA MINER, not a BLOG.

Should be well supported with Saudi venture capital ~ would need to do more search on that but odds are.........

10 posted on 02/13/2009 12:21:57 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: allmost

The posting from FreeRepublic you cited is authored by me. That is what alerted me to this website, which also rates *news* as well as *blogs.*


11 posted on 02/13/2009 12:22:43 PM PST by WayneLusvardi (It's more complex than it might seem)
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To: WayneLusvardi
So, are you famous or infamous?
:)
12 posted on 02/13/2009 12:24:04 PM PST by allmost
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To: WayneLusvardi
Another little rat**** liberal site trying to do something different. So what are the evaluation rules? Awww, that's a secret. Sure it is. Biased not so much that you wouldn't notice.

These socialist sites are worthless waste of time. For news stick with Brietbart.

13 posted on 02/13/2009 12:25:15 PM PST by Tarpon (If you don't stand on principle, you stand for nothing at all.)
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To: allmost

I think all freepers are infamous by now.


14 posted on 02/13/2009 12:26:06 PM PST by luckystarmom
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To: WayneLusvardi
I got this off Craigs List DC.

Civil Rights Organization seeks civil rights actors for a short term project. Actors will visit a site and follow a script for market research. Some mileage reimbursement and actors are paid $100/assignment. Actors will attend a 4 hour training for which they will receive $50. For consideration please forward your resume. Location: Washington, DC area it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests Compensation: $100/assignment and some mileage

15 posted on 02/13/2009 12:26:32 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Enough_Deceit
I have posted letters that I have sent to Zero. I have nothing good to say about him or his cohorts.

Ditto that. Community Organizer 44 will be getting the "W" treatment from me. The rats had no class and no respect when it came to their treatment of President Bush. What goes around comes around. Zero thinks he's fooling people with his "no more policitics as usual" B.S. Real Americans are waking up to this guy (a bit late I might add).

16 posted on 02/13/2009 12:26:34 PM PST by jersey117
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To: WayneLusvardi
Go first to http://www.newstin.com/us/top-stories Then click on the "Congress readies...." story. Then look down at the bottom for "comments".

This is a veritable Free Republic lovefest ~ note, the software in this part looks remarkably like the setup at Yahoo.com WITHOUT the avatars and assorted junk pictures and space ~ more "businesslike" and "adult" but same old structure.

Any Freeper should learn to dig through this in a few moments.

17 posted on 02/13/2009 12:27:37 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: WayneLusvardi
BLOGS NOW BEING MONITORED FOR *TONE,* NOT TRUTH (ORWELLIAN)

Well then the democratic sites have a lot more to worry about than we do. Four letter words are the norm there.

18 posted on 02/13/2009 12:28:10 PM PST by McGruff (Oh no, there goes Tokyo! Go go PORKZILLA!)
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To: WayneLusvardi

this could get fun....

“The radiant Speaker, Pelosi, was brilliant and masterful in the way she held strong to her rule of a 48 hour wait to vote on bills. She showed great leadership in wanting to see something done for hurting American people before she jetted to Europe for her glorious acceptance of an award in Italy, and a peaceful meeting with the Pope.”

(okay— I must go heave now......)


19 posted on 02/13/2009 12:29:25 PM PST by eeevil conservative (GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE EARTH....Archimedes)
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To: WayneLusvardi

They can start with mine. I’m sure it’s not PC enough. THAT was the point.

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/


20 posted on 02/13/2009 12:30:33 PM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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