{"id":245,"date":"2006-04-19T17:10:59","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T16:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=245"},"modified":"2006-05-03T17:15:15","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T16:15:15","slug":"pnac-myspace-murdoch-and-technorati-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"PNAC, MySpace, Murdoch and Technorati Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was disturbed the other day that Technorati was returning a different political balance when I searched. It seemed that the entire blogsphere had moved to the right. And I noted that most of the links were in MySpace blogs. I didn&#8217;t think too much about it, just that MySpace bloggers might have been very busy on the subject I was searching for. <\/p>\n<p>Then I saw this:<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopthelie.com\/main_page.html\">NeoConservatives: Destroying America for Republicans and Democrats alike<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>and noticed one thing out of place, or rather one person <b>Ruppert Murdoch<\/b> and I remembered my search results. And remembered that MySpace.com blogspace had been bought by Murdoch. The phrase from the article <i>&#8220;Control the International Commons of cyberspace&#8221;<\/i> struck home. <\/p>\n<p>Could Technorati search results be biased to conservative Blogs on MySpace?<\/p>\n<p>Even given the easily availability of my tinhat close to hand. This scared me. I hope it scares you also. Has someone gained control of blog searching. Could they? And is this part of the NeoCon plan?<\/p>\n<p>Update: More interesting things about MySpace <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2006\/05\/03\/myspace_terms\/\">Murdoch wants teenagers&#8217;&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was disturbed the other day that Technorati was returning a different political balance when I searched. It seemed that the entire blogsphere had moved to the right. And I noted that most of the links were in MySpace blogs.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=245\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PNAC, MySpace, Murdoch and Technorati Search<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,18,24,27,7,25,11,8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-conspiracies","category-freedom","category-honesty","category-internet","category-liberty","category-patriot-act","category-politics","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}