Google Audio Indexing
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008http://labs.google.com/gaudi "Search what the politicians are saying"
Archive for the ‘aggregator’ Category
http://labs.google.com/gaudi "Search what the politicians are saying"
NewsCred
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008http://newscred.com/ "All the world's credible news, in one place. (Beta)"
NPR API
Sunday, July 27th, 2008http://www.npr.org/api/ "NPR's API provides a flexible, powerful way to access your favorite NPR content, including audio from most NPR programs dating back to 1995 as well as text, images and other web-only content from NPR and NPR member stations. This archive consists of over 250,000 stories that are grouped into more ...
Around the block, around the block / Chicago Crime Data (Everyblock)
Sunday, July 27th, 2008http://chicagotribune.com/block "Is your neighborhood in the news? Here are Tribune reports from the last 48 hours." http://chicago.everyblock.com/crime/ "Welcome to EveryBlock's Chicago crime section, formerly known as chicagocrime.org. Here, you can explore all reported crime in the city of Chicago in various ways. Use "Search near an address" to find crime near ...
ProPublica
Monday, June 30th, 2008http://www.propublica.org/ "ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. We strive to foster change through exposing exploitation of the weak by the strong and the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them."
YOUR WEEK (WETA / Reddit)
Monday, May 26th, 2008http://yourweek.org/ "YOUR WEEK is the beta version of a planned interactive public television and internet show from WETA Washington, D.C., and funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Hosted by Michelle Cottle and Rich Lowry and powered by Reddit, YOUR WEEK covers politics, arts, international, science, tech, social, sports, and pop ...
Eureka! Science News
Monday, May 26th, 2008http://esciencenews.com/ "There is no human editor behind e! Science News; it is powered by the Eureka! news engine, a fully automated artificial intelligence. Its sole purpose is to ensure that you have access to the very latest and popular science breakthroughs. To achieve this, it constantly surfs the web to gather, ...
NNDB Mapper
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008http://mapper.nndb.com/ "The NNDB Mapper allows you to explore NNDB visually by graphing the connections between people. Over 32,000 individuals are listed in our network."
NewsWare: NewsSkimmer, NewsBlaster, NewsBreaker, NewsScroller, Decision ‘08 Leaderboard (Msnbc.com)
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008NewsSkimmer - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24115502 - "NewsSkimmer is a customizable, news-visualizing, interactive screensaver. This free download saturates your idling computer with news-filled color. Just pick the topics that interest you and color-code your selections to get a custom, live news show every time it’s active." NewsBlaster - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24114403 - "Inspired by the rapid-fire ...
TextMap
Sunday, May 4th, 2008http://www.textmap.com "What is TextMap? TextMap tracks references to people, places, and things appearing in news text, so as to identify meaningful relationships between them. TextMap monitors the state of the world by analyzing both the temporal and spatial distribution of these entities. We currently analyze over 1000 domestic and international news ...
Political Pundit: Candidate Pundit and Topic Pundit (Jodange)
Friday, April 4th, 2008Topic Pundit: "Daily updates showing the opinions of the most popular 2008 Presidential Candidates" "View these Presidential Candidate opinions like you’ve never done before using Jodange’s patent pending sentiment service. The gadget shows all the opinions from the Presidential Candidates over the last 48 hours, extracted from the all the most ...
MetaCarta GeoSearch News
Saturday, March 29th, 2008http://geosearch.metacarta.com/ "Identify and leverage the geographic references in content. Geosearch: Find all content, data, and information about a place in a single view Geotagging: Analyze content to identify geographic references; use geotagged content in other applications MetaCarta puts your data on any map: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, ESRI - virtually any map ...
Democratic Super Delegate Tracker Widget (Online NewsHour)
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008"Democratic Super Delegate Tracker"
Casualties in Iraq (USATODAY.com)
Thursday, March 20th, 2008http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-03-13-iraq-casualties_N.htm "A personal, statistical view ... Casualties in Iraq: A look at the American lives lost ... This list includes fatal U.S. government casualties — military and civilian — in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Its totals will usually be slightly less than those in media reports because they are based on Defense Department ...
UPDATED: Democratic Super Delegate Tracker (Online NewsHour)
Friday, March 14th, 2008Democratic Super Delegate Tracker "These nearly 800 Democratic party leaders and officials, who may vote independently of their state's primary or caucus results, will comprise 20 percent of the total delegate pool at the 2008 nominating convention. In this year's tight race, their flexible votes may determine the Democratic presidential candidate."
Mixx on NPR.org and NYTimes.com
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Mixx links are now on NPR.org and NYTimes.com. "Mixx is your link to the web content that really matters. ... You find it; we'll Mixx it. Use YourMixx to tailor the content categories, tags, specific users and groups, and we'll deliver the top-rated content as chosen by you and people who ...
Blews - what the blogosphere tells you about news (Microsoft Research)
Friday, March 7th, 2008http://research.microsoft.com/projects/blews/blews.aspx "While typical news-aggregation sites do a good job of clustering news stories according to topic, they leave the reader without information about which stories figure prominently in political discourse. BLEWS uses political blogs to categorize news stories according to their reception in the conservative and liberal blogospheres."
LiveNewsCameras.com
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008http://www.livenewscameras.com/ "The idea behind this page is simple - to bring together the resources of newsrooms around the world, and make it easy to find and watch on your computer. As of today, there are more than 50 channels of live streaming video on this page - that number is growing ...
Idea Generator: Your Economy (Minnesota Public Radio)
Friday, February 22nd, 2008http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/2008/02/your_economy/ "What worries you most about the economy ... and what can we do about it? Share youe experience and ideas or browse, discuss and rate the ideas of others. Public radio reporters will be listening, and using your insights to help us cover the issues that matter most in the ...
Free Surveys with Google Docs
Saturday, February 16th, 2008http://spreadsheets.google.com "How it works: Create a form and invite people to fill it out... their answers will be automatically added to this spreadsheet."
iReport.com (CNN)
Saturday, February 16th, 2008iReport.com "Unedited. Unfiltered. News." "CNN built the tools, you take it from there. All the stories here are user-generated and instant: CNN does not vet or verify their authenticity or accuracy before they post."
UPDATED: News and Multimedia Tied to Map Coordinates (YourStreet, EveryBlock, Flickr, Online NewsHour, USGS, USDA, RSOE, ShoZu, AllVoices)
Friday, February 8th, 2008YourStreet: "YourStreet transforms the way you experience local news by indexing and mapping thousands of articles, blogs, and conversations down to the street level." EveryBlock: "A news feed for your block" Flickr: "Explore everyone's photos on a map" U.S. Casualties (Online NewsHour): "Iraq in Transition | U.S. Casualties | Searchable database" Latest Earthquakes in ...
Big News (Ask.com)
Thursday, February 7th, 2008http://news.ask.com/news "Ask BigNews is a search and browse service that helps you find and track the most important and most talked about stories in the news. You can: Use the BigFactor to quickly find the hottest stories to follow Track stories automatically and follow their progression over time Check out the Top Videos in ...
Brijit
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008Brijit: "Great content in 100 words or less" Brijit is now on Facebook.
Scintilla (Nature)
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008"Scintilla collects data from hundreds of news outlets, scientific blogs, journals and databases and then makes it easy for you to organise, share and discover exactly the type of information that you're interested in.""Scintilla is run by Nature Publishing Group."
Skewz
Thursday, January 31st, 2008"Skewz is a media rating site for political news. You can rate anything on the Internet in terms of its political bias whether that's liberal or conservative. The bias could be "good bias" or "bad bias", that's up to you."
2008 Election Map (NPR / Online NewsHour)
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/states/
