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Visualizing news:

March 31, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Newsmap is a visual representation of Google News that was published yesterday. “Newsmap’s objective takes that goal [i.e., to visualize a huge amount of information] a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.”

Tags: Media

A moment of silence

March 30, 2004 by Michael Boyle

for the Sloganator Memorial. A touching tribute to the now-deceased Bush-Cheney poster generator.

Tags: US Politics

Jeffrey Veen:

March 30, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Will you be my friend? Trying to tease something out of the void that the social networking sites have become. So far it seems that the folks at Flickr are the only ones who have a clue. The rest of them – Tribe, LinkedIn, Friendster, Orkut – seem to have a classic case of high-ego startup syndrome, suggesting that they actually believe they’re smarter than everyone else and can actually do it all themselves with limited if any interoperability. I hope to be proven wrong.

Tags: Flickr, Social Networks, Startup, Veen

New from Six Apart:

March 30, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Mena’s Corner. “I’ve always advocated personal voice as the strongest asset of a weblog. In the past year, Six Apart has lost its public voice.” The first post is called, “Where did those 22 other people come from?” and addresses the fact that the company behind Movable Type, TypePad, and now TypeKey had become a shadowy entity, with few people aware had several employees and such.

Tags: Blogging

A Wired News special report:

March 29, 2004 by Michael Boyle

How E-Voting Threatens Democracy, by Kim Zetter.

Tags: US Politics

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