whose-news v0.1.0
WhoseNews
Where does your news come from? Find out!
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Description
Ever wondered who writes your your news?
No - you probably answered The Verge, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, etc.
You know who writes your news, right? We'll, you might be questioning that now that you are looking at this project, and you'd be correct to wonder.
Let's say The Verge writes a new post about Google Fiber - seems innocent, right? Well, The Verge is owned by Vox Media, of which Comcast Ventures invests in.
So - Comcast is investing in a company that is writing about Google Fiber.
You should at least know about this, right? Yeah, if you are willing to do a lot of Googling (or exploration using CrunchBase).
That's a lot and not something you are going to do every time you read an article. That multiplies the time you spend reading! You aren't going to do that. So this extension comes in! We'll let you know who owns the site you are reading (on The Verge? We'll let you know it's Vox), highlight potential conflicts of interest (like a competing businesses mentioned), and let you explore who owns what.
No one's made machine readable data for this, so we created a database. The
entire database is contained in data.yaml. Think something's wrong?
See something that could be made better, or something we left out? Feel free to
add it in under the MIT license. Best of all, along with our data, all of our
code is open source, so, if you have a great idea that we haven't thought of,
you can use it however you'd like under the MIT license. With all of this data,
we're excited to see what happens.
Progress
- Database in progress.
- Chrome extension coming soon.
Contributing
WhoseNews is built with webpack:
Make sure to run npm run build before releasing, not just webpack
To Build: npm run build, runs webpack && coffee buildyaml.coffee
To Debug: npm run debug, runs webpack --debug && node debug build/app.js
To Run: npm run run, runs webpack && node build/app.js
Based off of an idea from Reddit.