10 x 10: A unique way of following world events

Ten by ten‘ is an interactive of the words and pictures that define the time. With no human editors or regulators 10×10 records our wars and crises, our triumphs and tragedies, our mistakes and milestones. When we make history, or at least the headlines, http://www.tenbyten.org/10×10.html takes note and remembers. It gathers data from ABC, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, MSNBC and Reuters and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories.

” When you open 10×10, you will see a grid of the top 100 world images that hour, ranked in order of importance, reading left to right, top to bottom. Along the right edge of the screen are listed the corresponding top 100 words, one for each image.Move your mouse around the images and you’ll see which words match which images. Move your mouse up and down the word list, and the corresponding images will light up. Click any word or image to zoom in and see the news headlines behind the word. Click the headline links to read the original news stories. Click the zoomed image a second time to see the image full screen”(Source: http://www.tenbyten.org/info.html).

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