News Map - Check Out The Current News Quickly
I started to use this site the other day and I quite like it. It is a page that contains map of the news where each block is sized proportionally to how many articles are being found for it on the web. Each block is also in a section of blocks that are in its subject category.
The site is Marumushi's newsmap page.
Here is a screenshot below. Notice that each block is proportional in size to its group of blocks. For example, all the red items are the world news so they are all clumped together. For this show, the fighting in Gaza story is the largest so their web crawler has found the most articles regarding that story on the web sites it checks.
If you see a story you like, you can click on it to take you to one of the articles. The picture below is only a screenshot and does not function that way, but you can go to the Marumushi's newsmap page for the real thing.
NewsMap
You will also see that there are tabs for different countries so you can make your news a little more country specific if you want. They index 4 times a day and archives 7 days back so you can see what was the top items on the weekend or a day you missed if you want to.
Very impressive and a new graphical interface to represent the news in a quick easy to understand what is going on manner. You just have to trust how they are representing it.
The other news organizations would be good to do this with their own sites, but technically their RSS feeds show their latest stories already. I just find they are not always that important.
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