Newsmap is a very clever integration of webmedia and aggregation tools. Concept:
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing
landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap
visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information
gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained
visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step
further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable
bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news
reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around
the globe.
Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. It’s objective is to simply demonstrate
visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media.
It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news, on the contrary it is thought to ironically
accentuate the bias of it