Ooh. Cool Flash app of the week - 10×10 (via New Links) scours various RSS feeds for news, then ranks keywords according to how commonly they appear. Each word has a corresponding picture, providing a graphical mosaic of the news currently dominating the world’s view. Not perfect - some pictures are over-repeated, perhaps if they used more sources that would clear up - but still quite funky to use.
(If it looks familiar in some way, it’s because it’s done by the same folks who made Wordcount)
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November 8th, 2004 at 21:51:45
The look and interface is even slicker and more visually pleasing than wordcount - they’re clearly honing their mad autistic linguistic web-scraping flash skillz.
The current picture for “president” - barbed wire, tanks and a soldier - is pleasingly satirical, too…