Mapping the News of the World
I came upon this very cool visual and I had to share it:
This is from Buzztracker. I’ll quote them directly to explain what this image represents:
“Buzztracker is software that visualizes frequencies and relationships between locations in the Google world news directory.
Buzztracker tries to show you how interconnected the world is: big events in one area ripple to other areas across the globe. Connections between cities thousands of miles apart become apparent at a glance.
Buzztracker currently only tracks English-language news sources.”
What you see above was generated today. Come back tomorrow and the image will be different.
Click on the red circles to get even more data about news generated in that region. As a PR person, I find this tool to be extremely cool. Imagine including search parameters specific to an announcement or campaign, or even a company’s ticker symbol into the algorithms used to generate this image. Web 2.0 is getting cooler all the time.
What do you think of this technology? Please leave us a comment.
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