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Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
The Pour - Dining & Wine - New York Times Blog
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 traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal 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.
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- Access to the last two years-worth of columns from the NY Times' noted Op-Ed columnists, including Thomas Friedman , Maureen Dowd , David Brooks , and Paul Krugman . - The first mention of the World Wide Web in the Times in February 1993. According to the article, the purpose of the web is "[to make] available physicists' research from many locations". Also notable are this John Markoff article on the internet being overwhelmed by heavy traffic and growth...in 1993, and a piece, also by Markoff, on the Mosaic web browser . - Early report of Lincoln's assassination ..."The President Still Alive at Last Accounts".
Gems from the archive of the New York Times (kottke.org)
I’ve been getting the predictable hysterical reactions to today’s column. And it’s true — I’m a Sharia Jewish atheist Marxist who hates America! Bwahahaha!

