Newsmap.jp pulls data and maps the size of the headline based on how many articles are written about the topic. The site is customizable by country, type of news, and by period of time. While not the way I want to get most of my news, it is an interesting way to visualize the news.
Interestingly this type of visualization would have been nearly impossible 15 years ago. I remember some students spending hours and hours scouring Lexis-Nexus data to come up with news trends in the mid 1990s... now, it is considered an interesting way to view the news, but few would question that the data is readily at our fingertips.
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