Visualizing Stories On Current Events With Newsmap 114
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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."
OK so this year theme is.... (Score:1, Funny)
Hold the front page! (Score:4, Funny)
Stop Press!
It works! (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Wow... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Maybe GUIs could learn from this (Score:4, Funny)
cool. good. innovative. (Score:3, Funny)
assuming it's not a hoax, it'll be on my bookmarks bar at the top of the news list.
Slashdot map: (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.
Cool! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Maybe GUIs could learn from this (Score:4, Funny)
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 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:To Save You Some Time... (Score:5, Funny)
The last time I believed anyone on slashdot I ended up with goatse all over my monitor.