31 July 2006

visualizing priorities

do y'all know about newsmap?

the larger-font stories are the ones read by more people; the smaller, fewer. it's interesting to see what people are interested in and to see what's likely a snowball effect in popularity. first, people would apparently rather read about the death of a 19-year-old model than the disparate rates of judges' asylum rejections. and the fact that that model-box is bigger likely leads more people still to read it over the asylum story.

whatever else is interesting about the thing, newmap is at least perty.

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