News at a Glance

chris writes: "If you're too lazy to read headlines, a new way to find writings might just save your soul. Paradoxically, this site is showing all the pictures found in news and reviews over the Internet. Nothing to read there, just thumbnail galleries sorted by theme (with, of course, links to the original articles). This format is showing some interesting side-effects. First, you can see what's hot lately because the same picture is repeated over your screen. It is also very effective when looking for reviews of tech toys or computer gizmos... spotting a CPU or a japanese robot among other items is almost instantaneous. Another thing to notice is that pictures of human faces seem to keep the lead over pie charts and battlefields... they are a good clue to figure what an article is about."

Comments

so... ?

[edmz]

how is that any better than the pictures already at news.google.com ?

Sorry, but it seems something that someone with good scripting abilities can do in a matter of hours.

Like Ozymandias in WATCHMEN

[Allen Varney]

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons created a superhero, Ozymandias, in their 1985 graphic novel WATCHMEN. He had a huge wall of TV screens that showed the whole world's channels, each screen switching randomly every few seconds. Being incredibly intelligent, he could divine the state of the world through these Burroughsian blipvert glimpses, like a prophet reading entrails. This page reminded me of Ozymandias.

Re:RTFP

[Golias]

Funny you should say that, I was just thinking I would have found it more useful if it was just tightly-tiled pictures without any context of where the links were coming from. Kind of like the massive bank of monitors that Veidt used in "The Watchmen" to keep track of current trends in human culture.

In the current layout, you still have to skim through it, and only get a handful of images... so you might as well just go to Google News or Drudge Report or something for your news links.

Re:May be a little Obvious

[commodoresloat]

But you did at least LATFP, didn't you?

Images are even easier to manipulate than words.

[LeoDV]

People always seem to think that if there's a picture of something then it's the truth, but pictures are actually even easier to use when it comes to twisting the truth to fit your agenda. I don't mean actually editing the picture, but just using it so it fits your goal. Just alter the tagline and it changes a whole perspective. There was a series of ads for a radio statoin here that showed big pictures and would twist them. For example you'd see a bunch of small dots on a desert with fumes behind them so you could ony see they were vehicles and the tagline would read "Military offensive or rally race?"...

We live in an image-based, image-controlled world. I want my news without images, not made out of images.

Re:Repetition Blindness

[B747SP]

One area of study had been Repetition Blindness that thinks a person's ability to remember pictures when subjected to many at a time lessens.

I reject that suggestion. If that is true, then explain to me why one can view heaps and heaps of pr0n and still recognise individual pictures as dupes in a database of, oh, 21Gigabytes worth. (I'm speaking on behalf of a friend, of course)

Yahoo has been doing this for years...

[artemis67]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index2&cid=7 02

All photos, click to read.