by: Iqbal Mohammed
It’s not often that one comes across a application or a new tool that changes the way we have been doing things all our lives. E-mail changed the way people communicated. And 10×10 might just change the way we access and record news.
Every hour 10×10 scans the RSS feeds of prominent news sources like Reuters, BBC, New York Times, etc. It ranks the 100 most common words from all the sources put together and forms a 10×10 grid of pictures associated with the words. Clicking on a picture (or word) will open up all the linked stories.
The 10×10 grid is a unique, unbiased tapestry of what global issues the world faced at that hour. The tool, which requires no manual intervention at any stage, also archives all the hourly grids thereby leaving a trail for anyone to follow back in time and revisit (but only from November 2004, when 10×10 came into being.)
Original Post: http://www.misentropy.com/2005/05/unsung-ideas-11.html
