VERY cool website for news!

[nodehopper]

http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm

It's got some sort of treemap algorhythm working and it shows patterns in the newsstories, like it maps them in a way that shows patterns...

[psychopomp]

1. How do you find this useful?

I haven't delved into it deeply and would like to know why you like it.

[Robbien]

3. Is is kinda neat

The story about "Bush is Wary of Intelligence Post" is bigger because it was picked up by more news sources than the "Kerry: Bush is Failing Citizens" story. But bigger than both stories is the one about the missing Utah woman.

You can tell at a glance what is getting the most coverage across the country.

[nodehopper]

7. What Robbien below said

It not only shows you the stories, it shows them in relation to each other, what the bias are, what's being hyped, what's doing down rabbit holes, in almost real time,

[Enraged_Ape]

2. Wow, that is neat.

It's kind of overwhelming, so it took me a little study to figure out what it seems they're doing:

The brightness of the color represents the recentness of a news story. The size of the block represents how many articles Google News has references to in its database. Stories that don't have as much play in the press will look smaller on this map than stories with a lot of exposure.

At least I think that's how it works. If it does, I can see how one might use this over time to see how news stories really skew.

[Robbien]

4. Did you see the story about the Vatican criticizing the lethal effects

of Feminism.

The bad part of this is that you cannot click on the box and go to a story.

[psychopomp]

5. I can

Perhaps you need to adjust your browser settings. If this is Java-enabled, then you need to be able run Java, etc.

I agree, this is an interesting site.

[nodehopper]

8. yeah, they explain it in more specific terms in their "about" section

[prodigal_green]

6. very cool, thanks for the link

Nice to see at a glance where the media's priorities are!

[nodehopper]

22. yes, isn't it?

[gonefishing]

9. Check out the Grid on the bottom left corner

You can select any day over the last week and get all the news for that day/time.

Thanks for the post this is just what I need.

[nodehopper]

14. oh, cool, I didn't even see that!

and welcome :)

[Tight_rope]

10. Kick...very berry cool link...

[TreasonousBastard]

11. Whoa! This is interesting...

and yet another way to remain glued to the computer.

[AmerDem]

12. doesn't work with Mozilla

It opened with IE though

[nodehopper]

13. weird, it worked with Firefox...

[lpbk2713]

20. Didn't work with Mozilla 1.7 for me.

Tried resetting a few times with no luck.

It sounds similar to Google's news page.

[nodehopper]

24. sort of, except it also shows the visual relationship

of the news being reported to the unseen patterns of how they are being reported, media bias, etc.

[johnfunk]

23. I'm running Mozilla, it's working fine...

You may want to check some of the hundreds of settings in your browser. Newsmap looks to be written in Cold Fusion.

[Bluebear]

15. Utmost cool!

[Fleshdancer]

16. What a cool site!

thank you thank you. How did you find this anyway? I'm going to bookmark it. thanks again. :)

[nodehopper]

18. my computer genius friend who knows everything on the net pointed me to it

She knew it would be totally up my alley

[buycitgo]

17. thank you

bookmarked

but, man, could it be any BUSIER?

[nodehopper]

19. was it slow to load

or do you mean, just, lots of stuff, like the eyes don't know where to look first?

[msanthrope]

21. cool kick n/t

[gatorboy]

25. It is interesting. n/t