Comments on: Newsfilter on steroids

Newsfilter on steroids

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:25:42 -0800

Watch news events happen in realtime as they get pumped into RSS-space™. In the grand if not lengthy tradition of newsquakes, vanishing point, and newsmap. Plugins and stuff required. [Visualize the hell out of the news, come here, post it, then get hauled into Metatalk for your trouble!]

By: RobotAdam

RobotAdam — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:36:14 -0800

This is very cool. I like the title balloon—jumped from Alaska to Beijing to Cuba to New Zealand and then to the Bahamas, where I learned that the financial sector survey results weren't good. Or something. I didn't actually care enough to put the mouse over the Bahamas afterwards. It is pretty, though.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:41:27 -0800

I want a big ol' LCD panel on my office wall at home dedicated just to displaying that first one, 24/7.

By: Pontius Pilate

Pontius Pilate — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:48:24 -0800

Egad, information overload.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:50:50 -0800

I'll settle for a screeensaver, stav. Thanks for sharing it!

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:52:43 -0800

Very cool -- as mentioned above, a large screen in my office with this sort of site/tool always on would be sweet indeed.

By: icosahedral

icosahedral — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:54:03 -0800

Okay, that's hot. Back in 2000 or so when cityscape webcams became pervasive, I imagined something along these lines. Only instead of news, it would show updated views of cities around the world. It's amazing to me that we're able to do stuff like this now-a-days.

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:00:45 -0800

I've always thought newsmap was cooler than heck.

By: ?!

?! — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:10:12 -0800

"At present, this is not real-time due to server problems. Soon, I'll be releasing a real-time, expanded version of the script that can also be downloaded as a screensaver or desktop background." -- What's Up 0.9 This will make one hell of a screen saver.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:12:58 -0800

Whoops, I thought it was realtime. Sorry.

By: ashbury

ashbury — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:13:48 -0800

Pretty impressive. I also want a big-ass monitor on my wall just for this (of course, my wife wouldn't really care for it, stinking up the decor and all). Thanks stavros.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:21:47 -0800

All the inks I clicked on where dated January 27th, so this a bit useless for now.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:31:57 -0800

this a bit useless for now. Like I said, sorry. But I don't know how much information visualizations like this are meant to be useful as much as brainbending and novel and captivating. That's arguable, of course. Anyway, I'm extremely visually-oriented, and always fascinated by new ways to look at information.

By: dhruva

dhruva — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:00:45 -0800

Very cool!

By: furiousthought

furiousthought — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:05:11 -0800

Okay, every now and then something comes along and convinces me I'm living in the future. That is pretty close. It feels kind of like one of those cyberpunk information domes where Mr. Hacker keeps his fingers on the ever-quickening pulse of society or whatever. I didn't last too long, obviously. That and, well, having geographical locations pop up just two or three squares off was getting real distracting. Dallas was like in the Florida Panhandle or something.

By: medialyte

medialyte — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:28:54 -0800

Dude, I'm totally gonna visualize the hell out of everything now! uh... feeling a little ill... I think I'll use the phrase "visualize the hell out of it" in my next art review. Thanks stavros.

By: twistedonion

twistedonion — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:28:25 -0800

That's realy cool - works well with an application such as desktopmagik (mac) to stick it onto your desktop.

By: wtfchuck

wtfchuck — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:58:14 -0800

Way cool, I hope he gets the server situation fixed. Agreed it would make a great screen saver.

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 04:40:12 -0800

Very cool. Nice graphics too.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:22:04 -0800

Now we just have to figure out how to tell a computer the difference between interesting local news and boring local news.

By: educatedslacker

educatedslacker — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:32:20 -0800

This is really cool, real-time or not (yet). Once they release the screensaver, I'm going to be all over that. They should come up with localized ones for when you're feeling isolationist or just want to check out news in your area (one for the US, one for Europe, Austrailia, etc.). Still, it has a very awesome look to it.

By: pithy comment

pithy comment — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:42:05 -0800

I'm working on convincing "the relevant people" in my office to put some of these up on some screens in the lobby.

By: LordSludge

LordSludge — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:42:20 -0800

Beam it on your wall with a projector. $500 on eBay.

By: bumpkin

bumpkin — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:19:12 -0800

Some great stuff there ... reminds me of... About a year back, someone here linked to a site that analyzed the day's news (through Google News, I think) and then depicted this as lines connecting nodes. So a US news story on Iraq would show up as a line connecting Washington to Baghdad (for example). I have been trying to dig this one up, but can't find it. Not attempting to derail, that site complements the ones linked to here.

By: hasund

hasund — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:25:52 -0800

It's elegantly made and the concept is very cool, but as of now it's just a loop - I checked it out a few days ago and it's still the same stories in the same sequence. That few people seem to notice the stories "outdatedness" reminds me of what Tufte says about chart junk (graphics in data visualisations that work like eye candy but doesn't really say anything).

By: junesix

junesix — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:12:08 -0800

I always envisioned the control room of CNN would have a huge display of something like this - a big map of the world with live video feeds from CNN and other news sources along the perimeter connected by lines to the site of the video. Layered over the map would be text balloons of mini-reports as they are received. Very cool, stav. Looking forward to the screensaver. Should be beautiful on the TV/monitor.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:03:30 -0800

Late addition that I just ran across: this is pretty neat, too.