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Data-Visualization: The world according to newspapers
We always knew that the press and journalists are selective with what story makes it to the cover pages or even receives a few paragraphs to be mentioned. But nobody has visualized this so far and shown how unbalanced some newspapers are regarding world news.
The two heatmaps below show news coverage by geographical region from the Daily Mail and The Economist during 2007. They are part of a series of heatmaps created within a project by French journalists Nicolas Kayser-Bril and Gilles Bruno. The two are planning to…
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Opinion: Olbermann timeline or the Nexus of Politics and Terror
Last Thursday night during “MSNBC Countdown” Keith Olbermann presented a timeline of what he calls the “Nexus of Politics and Terror” in the USA. Events are clustered together into 13 time groups starting 18-May-2002 to show how the government and administration in the US has put spin on old, untrue or hold-back information to suppress other stories or influence news and the public towards their political agendas.
The video starts with an intro on the most recent FISA voting…
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Guatemala: Gigantic 100 meter deep hole opens in the ground
What are you going to do when the ground below you suddenly disappears and a 100 meter deep hole opens up? That just happened in Guatemala City.”…Several houses and at least one lorry have been swallowed by a giant sinkhole in a poor district of Guatemala City. The hole is said to be more than 100m (330ft) deep. Residents said they…
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Best News Picture Galleries on the Web
You can read your daily news online or via RSS but there is another way to get informed (and get your daily dose of news pictures). Major media agencies and news papers also provide daily or weekly updated news in pictures. Quite a few of them have even added spoken comments to the pictures so you get some background information together with the images. And often you get multiple images for a news story where otherwise only one of these pictures is included with a longer text. The services we included in the list below are the largest providers and often the source for other news and media sites. They cover news on a global level but some have also regional information. We have broken the list down into the following four sections (Daily picture sources, Weekly picture sources, Yearly picture awards and reviews, Historic and all time famous pictures)…
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E-Bay: Another Record Quarter
While some analysts already believed that sky-rocketing EBay has already reached its top due to growing competition from Google, EBay today posted another record quarter in his history.
Turnover in the 3rd quarter rose by 31% to USD 1,449 Bln and profits rose 10% to USD 280,9 Mln.
Strongest contributor to the increase was PayPal of [...]
