I've been playing with link graphs a lot recently. Link graphs are tables of links where each link is size according to it's relevance. Here is one I built yesterday that scans RSS feeds from the major news channels. You can click on a link on the right hand side of the window to see the articles associated with that keyword. It seems to a very easy way to see what the major stories of the day are and to drill down into them.
The next step I'm working on is to do a time-lapse movie with this technique. I'm storing the RSS feeds hourly and I'll be able to do a time-lapse display so that you can literally see the stories come in and fade away. As hurricane Dennis passes you will see the link size go from large to small with other stories come up relevance.
On a side note it's very interesting how condensed this graph is. I'm searching five different news sources and all I get are around 30 different words, and really just about five major words. It's a sign of our one word myopic media culture. When I put the system on the technology sites I got page full of different words.
If you have any ideas for me about how to change or improve this, or to apply it to different areas please let me know. Next week I'll have a first version of the time lapse. I have to gather the data first.
Posted by jherr at July 10, 2005 08:47 AMFirst of all may I pass on kudos for a very nicely set up site, especially the clear photographs.
You've hit on an interesting way to highlight fleeting relevance......
It would be interesting to add color coding and a cross cult aspect..... For example, if I could have a globe map, that relevanced China's top kanji news feeds according to a schema, say green for ecology and black for disease....a la grokker....
Then with your/ technology we could dashboard a global sentiment index......sounds copacetic 2me.
What say you? yes....it has a ring GSI Global Sentiment Index......based on the evolving RSS 2.
Posted by: Tatterdemalion at July 11, 2005 06:03 AMI'm not sure I understand your question.
But I am intersted in your thoughts on cross-cutting.
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