MOJ: Left or Right?

Earlier posts by Michael P. and me on Pat Robertson have been tallied on Unpartisan, a "blog aggregator" that collects posts from political blogs concerning prominent issues.  They divide blogs crudely into "from the left" and "from the right" (no category for "from the perspective of Catholic legal theory"), and they classify MOJ as from the left.  One might think the algorithm producing the classification is based on features of the individual post:  for example, on the occurrence of the words "evangelical" and "crackpot" within 12 words of each other (as happened in my post).  But actually, according to Unpartisan's FAQ page, classification is of the whole site and "is determined by which types of blogs you link to and which link to you.  If the majority of sites that link to you are known to be conservative and the majority of sites that you link to are known to be conservative, you get lumped in with the conservative blogs."  This supposedly "tends to work close to 98% of the time" (an oddly-qualified sentence).  Rick, Richard, Michael S., and other consistently right-minded MOJers:  MOJ ends up on the left even though Rob and I try to help your stats by linking to blogs like Christianity Today and Evangelical Outpost.  You better step up your linking!  (Smiley face here.)

Tom B.