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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

VocalNation.net

Tony posted this comment the other day:

a while back I got kind of pissed off flipping between the O’Rielly Factor and Democracy Now, not so much because the had such completely different views, but rather because they both claimed to be objective. So I started coding a website that would allow people to be called out on biased opinions, where the community would decide which ideas get the most recognition. Well, after 6 months of work, I’m finally launching it: VocalNation.net

I’m placing the control of this site, and control of the debate, largely in the hands of those who read this message. I’m starting things off by just picking a handful of conservative and liberal blogs to mention this to so that it will at least start off with a good balance of opinions from either side. I’m hoping that you could mention the site to your readers? After that, I guess it’ll be the side with the strongest arguments that’ll take control and dictate what direction the conversation goes. I’ve already had a number of conservatives sign up and a few have added postings, the liberals seem to be lagging a bit behind so far.

I don’t have a lot of extra time to post on yet another blog at the moment, but if anyone else is interested they can find the website here:
VocalNation

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3 responses to “VocalNation.net”

  1. Jamison Avatar
    Jamison

    Interesting idea, not sure what it’s suppose to accomplish. I don’t think anyone gets confused over the notion of objectivity in blogging. Seems like a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist.

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  2. Tony Avatar
    Tony

    Hey Jamison,

    You may or may not agree with me here, but I personally think that the way we currently are approaching politics isn’t working too well in that the people who make the most controversial, one sided or outrageous claims are the ones that get the most exposure.

    With VocalNation.net I’m trying to flip this, and give the people whose ideas resonate the strongest with the most people get the most exposure (kind of like what democracy is suppose to be about).

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  3. Tony Avatar
    Tony

    By the way Moni, thank you for mentioning the site to your readers. I do appreciate it.

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