Mainly focused on treemaps: newsmap Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionall (tags: visualization flash treemap) EmoMap EmoMap is a Python script that mines the Google world […]

Thsi day was mostly about gazetteers and other GIS related stuff: Gazetteer Protocol The ADL Gazetteer Protocol is a lightweight, stateless, XML- and HTTP-based protocol for accessing gazetteers: dictionaries of geographic placenames. (tags: protocol gis gazetteer) Alexandria Digital Library Project Welcome The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) is a distributed digital library with collections of georeferenced […]

Interesting program: Knight Brothers 21st Century News Challenge Turn the web on its head. Show us how online news can help people improve their lives and shape their communities. (tags: contest journalism news communities)