Visualizing Stories On Current Events With Newsmap

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Visualizing Stories On Current Events With Newsmap

Posted by simoniker on Thursday April 1, 2004 @12:18AM from the zeinab-badawi dept.

hrbrmstr writes "Marcos Weskamp and Dan Albritton have created Newsmap, an extremely cool way of visualizing news stories. The site takes the aggregated content from Google News (globally) and maps it out into a visual space. That way, you get an immediate feel for news patterns (what the media in any particular region is gravitating to) - there's quite a bit of potential here."

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OK so this year theme is.... by 51M02 · 2004-04-01 00:20 · Score: 1, Funny

our beloved search engine : Google. Good to know :)

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Hold the front page! by klokwise · 2004-04-01 00:28 · Score: 4, Funny

Stop Press!

... and all other amusing phrases to go with their breaking story of "500 Internal Server Error".
It works! by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2004-04-01 00:33 · Score: 4, Funny

hat way, you get an immediate feel for news patterns (what the media in any particular region is gravitating to)

I clicked on the link and Mozilla popped a window saying "The document contains no data" : this indeed matches exactly what I've been seeing in the TV news for years.

Well done!

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Wow... by scrm · 2004-04-01 00:33 · Score: 4, Funny

The main headline is Internal Server Error. Pretty neat.

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Re:Maybe GUIs could learn from this by Zog+The+Undeniable · 2004-04-01 00:37 · Score: 3, Funny

No thanks. I *hate* the personalized menus in Windows and Office XP, and they seem to have removed the ability to turn them off now.

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cool. good. innovative. by jpellino · 2004-04-01 00:46 · Score: 2, Funny

i feel abou this the same way i felt about bill herrick's glass topped trout stream coffee tables - now this is different in a good way.

assuming it's not a hoax, it'll be on my bookmarks bar at the top of the news list.

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Slashdot map: by Dark+Lord+Seth · 2004-04-01 00:48 · Score: 5, Funny

<--- You are here.

The latest news article is over here --->

CmdrTaco is not here --->

<--- ... but here.

Also, articles in sector 24-D are down for maintenance and the MPF ( Moderator Patrol Force ) has had som skirmishes with GNAA trolls in sectors 12-C, 13-C, 13-D, 13-E and 14-D. Beware of crossfire and goatses.

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Cool! by WhiskerTheMad · 2004-04-01 01:07 · Score: 2, Funny

An all new way I can watch for SCO news spikes!!!

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Re:Maybe GUIs could learn from this by SlashDread · 2004-04-01 01:15 · Score: 3, Funny

OMG, the TeleTubby startmenu from XP reinvented.
I -HATE- that auto-rearrange stuff.

My user manuals now read:
- Click the startbutton.
- Find wherever Windows XP has put you foo-app today.
- Select that.

"/Dread"
Can't wait for pr0nmap by Petronius · 2004-04-01 01:59 · Score: 2, Funny

headline #1 in big bold type: (.) (.)

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Re:To Save You Some Time... by Ateryx · 2004-04-01 02:29 · Score: 5, Funny

This one isn't a hoax. This actually looks like a cool and potentially useful product.
The last time I believed anyone on slashdot I ended up with goatse all over my monitor.

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