mapping and relating mainstream news

Posted: May 14th, 2005 ˑ Filled under: mapping, network structures, space ˑ  1 Comment
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Buzztracker is software that visualizes frequencies and relationships between locations in the Google world news directory. It comes along via pasta and vinegar who comments on it the following:

These sort of map are more and more relevant with regard to the increasing amount of information we are dealing with (or at least infojunkies are addicted to).

I like when a limited parsing is done like featuring connections / patterns in buzztracker or the winners / losers in “in the news”.
Buzztracker daily image

the image shows a small version of buzztracker – click into the image
and see the software at work

UPDATE (25.05.05): GAP (Global Attention Profiles) as a missing link here came to my attention via

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