4 responses to “News has never looked as good as this…”
-
newsmap is very neat; lovely display. Thanks for the heads up Antony. I agree completely that coming years should see new forms of visual representation coming onto the marketplace. For me one of the greatest things about these techniques is the way that they can help focus one’s attention on important trends and not become distracted by trivial items.
-
That’s right. One of the problems of information overload is not getting distracted, when there are just so many interesting things you could follow up in any one moment.
Newsmap is good looking but will need to evolve / be built upon much more in order to be really useful to anyone who needs to analyse news as part of their job.
Next generation versions of this kind of thing will most likely include ways of filtering and cross-referencing very, very quickly.
I’ve seen prototypes of services that do very similar things with high volumes of news and other content, so I imagine that we will see high end versions being offered to us in the next couple of years.
-
That rocks. Hard.
-
The posibilities are great. If, as the end user, you could choose which sources to feed into the newsmap then you’d have something really useful. I guess it would take someone like Factiva to really bring this concept alive. They already have licensing deals with most of the mainstream media so they could map news in this way quite easily.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.