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* in content, regardless of whether the content is liberal or conservative, is 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.
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our whole government is turning into an Orwellian nightmare
Posted by: rachel | February 13, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Comment by muywiah:
We will await an article about an oil spill at sea and then try to write up positive comments.
Posted by: Wayne Lusvardi | February 13, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Just put us all in the deprogramming tank NOW --- the suspense is killing me
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