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Let’s cry for the poor fragmented, underreported startups
Scobleizer — ... Quantivo Corp.; San Mateo, CA; Radiant Logic, Inc.; Novato, CA; RealNetworks, Inc.; Seattle, WA; Rebus Technology, Inc.; Cupertino, CA; RemoTV, Inc.; New Haven, CT; Rudder, Inc.; Houston, TX; Semanti Corp.; Alberta, Canada; Sim Ops Studios, Inc.; San Francisco, CA; SitScape, Inc.; Vienna, VA; SkyData Systems, Inc.; San Mateo, CA; SpinSpotter; Seattle, WA; Telnic, Ltd.; London, England; TetraBase, ...

New Browser Plug-In Spots Bias In News Stories
The Raw Feed — A startup called SpinSpotter reportedly plans to unveil at DEMOfall 08 a new BROWSER TOOLBAR THAT SPOTS BIASED REPORTING IN NEWS STORIES, according to a report in tomorrow's Wall Street Journal. It achieves this by searching for "opinionated language, sources with conflicts of interest and an over-reliance on text from corporate and political press releases."

72 Nice Things about Demo’s Startups’ Websites
Scobleizer — ... Canada; NICE? Tight writing. Sim Ops Studios, Inc.; San Francisco, CA; NICE? I love sneak peaks. SitScape, Inc.; Vienna, VA; NICE? Nice arrows. SkyData Systems, Inc.; San Mateo, CA; NICE? Actually this is a site I could probably have been nicer to on Saturday. Glad to finally see a site talking about price. I hate it when companies don’t tell you what things cost and use that as a lead generation device. SpinSpotter; Seattle, WA; NICE? I wonder if they’d spot this spin? Hmmm. Telnic, ...

DEMO Session 12: Defining The Next Web
Ubergizmo — This post is done LIVE at DEMOFall 08. please go to the article page and refresh it often to see each new presentation DISTRIBUTED 2.58 iWidgets ...

Bias-Spotting Firefox Toolbar Now In Public Beta
The Raw Feed — I told you September 7 about a browser plug-in called SpinSpotter designed to spot bias in news stories. At the time, the plug-in was not available to the public. Today, SpinSpotter was opened up for anyone to use (but still in beta). Read about and DOWNLOAD SPINSPOTTER HERE. Note that only Firefox 3 is supported, and that IE 7 will be supported soon. It turns out that SpinSpotter relies heavily or entirely on user input, which is problematic for three reasons: 1) criteria -- such as "passive voice," "disregarded context," "selective disclosure" and others -- are too ...

SpinSpotter - check and correct those online facts
The Red Ferret Journal - gadgets, cool sites, freeware and tech trivia — Spinspotter SpinSpotter is a community powered fact checker which runs from a browser toolbar. Install it and you ll get a red clickable highlight on any web page which has been marked with a spin tag by a member of the community. Click on it and you ll get a pop up box with the details of the allegation. At the moment, as you d expect, it s all heavily geared towards political comment, which can be a bit he said, she said tedious, but with a bit of imagination it s possible to see the idea gaining traction in a wider and more valuable context. Spinspotter2 As with all these things, it s definitely an ...

Media Watchdogs - 12 ways to check if your news sources are lying to you
The Red Ferret Journal - gadgets, cool sites, freeware and tech trivia — Media Lens . UK based media watchdog checking on media bias. Sporadic but important although the focus seems to be mostly skewed in favour of foreign affairs reporting. Excellent resource though nevertheless. Sourcewatch . We ve mentioned them before, but worth another look. A wiki format publicly editable encyclopedia of agenda agents affecting the news. Includes people, organisations and govt and activist groups shaping what we read, see and hear. Gold star. News Sniffer . Online service monitoring websites for stories which are altered subsequent to publication. Focusing on BBC and other UK ...