Metaversal Mining

I’m sure that there must be simply oodles of uses for this. I can’t for the life of me think of one

Buzztracker.org – geographic news search

I think that its the irrelevance of location of the news source that tickles me most. You are as likely to see an Australian paper reporting on Micheal Owen’s transfer to Man U as you are to see a Chinese site talking about the coup in Honduras. Since the vast majority of these stories are syndicated news feeds the thought that these maps of associations somehow equate to news rippling out from its origin is a stretch to say the least since there is no significant time lag difference between when Sydney sees a European story and when Beijing sees an Latin American one. But its a nice art project and I love it for that.