Mapping Google News 133
CousinLarry writes "A neat project called Buzztracker.org has been mining Google News for over a year and keeping track of relationships between geographic locations mentioned in articles.
The results are some really cool maps that actually seem to reflect the "buzz" of the day - check out the Vatican clusters from earlier this month, or the global New Year's chatter. You can also dig down into the articles from which the maps were generated."
I can't find Slashdot. (Score:2, Funny)
Empire? (Score:1, Funny)
Makes me want to load it up again.. any modern implementations of it around?
thats old news.. (Score:5, Funny)
This gives me a great idea... (Score:5, Funny)
New Business Plan! (Score:5, Funny)
2. Feed google buzz data into huge neural network.
3. Predict location and magnitude of future events.
4. ???
5. Profit!
Other possible topics (Score:3, Funny)
New Google mappings
Goo mapping news
Mapping new Googles
New mapping goggles
That's BS! (Score:3, Funny)
Wrong question. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:New Business Plan! (Score:5, Funny)
I thought that was obvious (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This gives me a great idea... (Score:3, Funny)
By the way you're writing it looks like you've already started.
Re:MetaWeb (Score:2, Funny)
Alternatively, if you want to make a big splash with decent news coverage, don't try to do it near one of the big red dots, because there's already too much going on there.