For those not familiar with Memeorandum.com:

If you want to know what’s happening in the world, then Memorandum will tell you – at least in a couple of areas. It’s an automated news clipping service, known in the trade as a “news aggregator”. It provides headlines and short texts updated every few minutes, with links to the original sites, much like Google News.

Memeorandum is based on the idea of “memes” or ideas that spread across the web (along with a pun on memorandum). Someone publishes an interesting story, other people find it, discuss it, and link to it. That’s how the web works. Small stories come and go quickly, while big ones generate lots of comment and dominate the page for hours.

Memorandum has become the most accurate pulse and thermometer in the political blogosphere. For instance, in the 36 hours following the murder of child-killer George Tiller, posts and stories about the story dominated the home page of Memeorandum.

To make Memeorandum even more useful to me, I downloaded and installed this excellent GreaseMonkey Script that color codes the links at Memeorandum by how partisan the site is:

…it is well-known that political bloggers are often very partisan. It’s not always obvious to new readers though which side of the line a blogger sits on. You certainly can’t always tell just from a headline on Memeorandum. So Andy Baio, with the help of del.icio.us founder, Joshua Schachter, created a Greasemonkey script (and Firefox plugin) to do just that. Simply install the script and browse popular political articles by their bias.

In otherwords, Lefty blogger sites are shaded in various shades of blue (the darker the blue, the more extreme Leftwing bias) and most traditional media sources also appear in shades of blue (not surprising). Meanwhile, right-leaning blogs are shaded in red.

You can tell which side of the isle a story most affects or hurts simply by looking at the predominance of color splashed across the pages of Memorandum.

I typically find it more useful and telling to see which side is not writing about certain topics than who is writing about them.

Take the back-to-back shootings that are dominating Memerondum right now. The murder of baby-killer George Tiller by a right-wing right-to-life whacko, and the murder and shooting of US Soldiers by a home-grown Left-wing terrorist jihadi.

Let’s take a look at this chronologically, starting with the murder of baby-killing Tiller.

I took a snap shot of the front page of Memeorandum at around 10:00 p.m. on May 31. You’ll notice that it’s mostly Blue, as Liberal bloggers went into a foaming rage denouncing the Christianists who were responsible for his atrocity, blaming everyone from Bill O’ Rielly to Michelle Malkin for the murder. Liberal bloggers couldn’t type fast enough to be the next Libtard to paint all Christians and all pro-lifers as complicit in the murder.

Note that there were also a bunch of Conservative bloggers writing about the story as well, mostly to condemn the murderer and to express sympathy for the victim’s family:

Now…let’s take a look at Memorandum this morning…the morning after an American (born and raised) citizen who converted to Islam took out his anti-war, anti-military, anti-US (in other words, his typical Liberal doctrine) on two US Soldiers at a Recruiting Station in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Predictably, lots of Conservative bloggers are writing about this case of domestic terrorism against US Soldiers.

Now, remember all of that faux outrage against the right when “one of ours” killed “one of theirs?” Notice their almost complete lack of silence when it was “one of theirs” that killed “one of ours”.

Have I mentioned lately how much I hate the moral cowards that constitute today’s Liberals?