Buzztracker is a visualization of the locations of Google News stories, letting you quickly see how litle of the world is actually covered by the news. This visualization complements Ethan Zuckerman’s arguments about news coverage. What we need now are two maps – what the news covers and what the blogosphere covers. As much as Ethan’s stats are useful, there’s nothing like a map to let you viscerally get it.
Update:
Ethan has maps!! Check out:
The more red a country is, the more attention it’s getting from the media source. The more blue, the less it’s getting. The first map is of Google News over the past 14 days, the second is of blogs, surveyed by Blogpulse, over the last 90 days…
He has tons of these on his site.
Hey danah, the width of this image is screwing up the formatting of the whole rest of your blog. Might want to scale it down a bit. Just fyi.
Buzztracker’s media epicentres
Buzztracker is another neat-o visualization map that generates a daily image of the
You mean, like these?
http://h2odev.law.harvard.edu/ezuckerman/maps/20050521/gnewshits20050521.jpg
http://h2odev.law.harvard.edu/ezuckerman/maps/20050521/blog90hits20050521.jpg
The more red a country is, the more attention it’s getting from the media source. The more blue, the less it’s getting. The first map is of Google News over the past 14 days, the second is of blogs, surveyed by Blogpulse, over the last 90 days…
I’ve got two years worth of these over at
http://h2odev.law.harvard.edu/ezuckerman
🙂
Interesting how similar the two maps are. I guess blogs mostly leech off the original reporting done by the “mainstream” media, all the while pontificating about how different they are. I wonder if that jackass Jeff Jarvis has seen these maps?