NewsMap - News visualisation

Always interesting to se someone thinking of new inetrefaces. NewsMap presents the news headlines in the form of a map. Each headline fills a rectangle. The size of the rectangle depends on the number of related news-reports behind it. The colour of the rectangle depends of the recency. The news is categorized into seven categories, each with its own colour. It is also possible to select one of the ten countries and get only news from related sources. Moving over and clicking on a rectangle presents one of the corresponding newsitems.

Is this however useful. The nice thing is to see, which news item is een as important. Minor items seem to fall of the list or are not readible. The world news category showed some 17 items, when I looked. This is not much and it much easier to scan in a simple listing.

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