Posts Tagged with ‘Drudge-Report’

Skewz: Not Telling You Anything You Didn’t Already Know

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

Skewz is the latest entry in the political news aggregation space, a sector that is getting way too crowded, even for a U.S. election year.
Skewz is designed to be Digg with a political slant; users can submit stories, and then others can vote on the purported political slew, using the U.S.-centric blue (for very liberal) to red (for very conservative) scale. Based on the ratings for articles, you can also see how a media outlet skews overall.
As Anthony Ha [...]

Girl Tech

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

I generally don't consider myself a raging feminist, but I have had days, like today, where the gender divide seems so wide as to to be insurmountable.
Let's take the past month, for example. Within just the past few weeks, we've seen the launch of WoWoWoW, or however you want to attempt to type that, a “Huffington Post” just for women. Now, let's forget that The HuffPo is one of the biggest political (and just about anything else now) sites out [...]