NewsQuakes.
newsQuakes.
newsQuakes.  ...
A cool concept. A wide scope of view of hotspots. Does highlight otherwise peripheral news. Unfortunately, seems like a work in progress. Imagine this with diffusion waves. [Jon's Radio] [Ross Mayfield's Weblog]
Well... Imagine this with live updating! Imagine taking this tech and retooling it to use GeoURL and DayPop. Talk about watching shock-waves! Then tweak some colors so that as an article is cross-posted, the original gets brighter so you could visualize the relative effect of a particular poster. Filter on "original location", news source (I'd say "blog' but I mean something broader), article, maximum number of hops. Chart referrers and hit-counts and translate those into the sizes of the circles themselves.
Go read Tufte's works. Then go see him speak if you get the chance. He's a really bright dude. Very twisty :-) [The Universal Church Of Cosmic Uncertainty]
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