We have filters for everything these days - you can filter out superfluous search results, report spam, protect your children from porn, and generally edit out anything you don't want to waste your time on...
The only natural progression, then, is a filter that checks for the political biases of an article on the web.
It's a promising premise, and it became a reality with yesterday's unveiling of Spinspotter. A BusinessWeek article gives a solid summary of the program. I just downloaded it, and haven't been too impressed - though, granted, it's a beta version, and it also depends largely on the contributions and commitment levels of its users (a la Wikipedia) to establish parameters for bias. In any case, it should be an interesting social experiment for objective journalism. I'm curious to see how it pans out, and encourage you all to give it a try.
(At the moment, it's only available for use with Firefox...)
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Another former editor's blog! (Vanessa and I have them, too. Check out minibeastspeaks.blogspot.com) Excited to ready your musings. You were always a good writer.
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