Monday, January 30, 2006

10 x 10

I just remembered this bookmark I've had for ages. I'll let the site explain itself:
Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.
Don't read too much into the "evolving record..." stuff, but it's definitely worth the occasional visit. During big breaking news moments, it's positively beautiful the way the grids line up.

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