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."
Re:Definitely on the Nifty List (Score:5, Informative)
Shoulda thought of this earlier (Score:2, Informative)
Geographical links a little tenuous (Score:1, Informative)
There's a bunch of articles linked from a clickable hotspot in Nelson, a small-ish city in the South Island of New Zealand. They're all about people with a surname of "Nelson", as far as I can tell, nothing to do with the geographical aspect.
Re:Nelson Mandela != Nelson town (Score:3, Informative)
It however, it quiet, has stunning weather, awesome beaches, friendly hippy locals. Many nice holidays spent in and around Nelson
Another cool google hack (Score:3, Informative)
A cool combination of Craigslist housing listing and Google maps. Seems to be very well done.