10x10 - Current news at a glance

Every hour, 10x10 presents a snapshot and interactive exploration of the words and pictures that "define the time."

After performing a weighted linguistic analysis of the text in the RSS feeds of news sources, the program selects the 100 key words and corresponding images deemed most important and presents them as a sort of mosaic postcard.

Moving your mouse around the grid highlights the terms corresponding to each image, and clicking on an image brings up a window with links to the corresponding news headlines. Clicking the image again presents a larger view. You can also view results from previous hours or view the top words for a single day, month, or year.

Sources for 10x10 are the international news feeds from Reuters, BBC, and the NY Times ... and while this is a fascinating way to explore current events, I can't help wondering how different the end result might look if a more diverse group of sources were utilized for the feeds.

(link via The Learned Man)