Making The News

   Two sites that attempt to display visually what's making the news.  They
   show which stories have got the most mind-share in the media.

   1. newsmap
      < http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/ >
      < http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm >
   "Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing
    landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization
    algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered
    by the aggregator."

   Can be customised, e.g. Italian news:
      < http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm?selected=it
          &categories=world,nation,business,technology,sports,entertainment >


   2. In The News
      < http://news.stamen.com/ >
   "This data visualisation experiment is intended to give a high-level view of
    who's making news at the moment, and who made the news at specified times
    in the past"