What is "muckety"

Muckety is a web site launched in 2007 by former newspaper journalists.

The site uses interactive maps powered by Adobe Flash to show relationships between people, businesses and organizations.

Muckety also publishes news stories about influential people and their connections to government, business and one another.

The Economist described Muckety as an "American site which enriches news stories with interactive maps of the protagonists’ networks of influence" in its May 2009 article titled "The rebirth of news".

Muckety was also featured on the New York Times Economix blog in May 2009. Catherine Rampell described Muckety as "catnip for conspiracy theorists" using the Muckety map of former Federal Reserve Bank of New York chairman Stephen Friedman (PFIAB) and his ties to Goldman Sachs an example of the importance of networks.