Slate Magazine: Introducing News Dots
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 21:19
"News Dots scans all the articles from major publications—about 500 a day—and submits them to Calais … Each time two tags appear in the same story, this tool tallies one connection between them. … s this tool scans hundreds of stories, this network grows rapidly, and "communities" begin to form among the tags. … The news network that results is visualized using Slate's custom News Dots tool, which is built using an open-source Actionscript library called Flare."
Sunday, 23 December 2007, 11:04
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Slate also reported on the Mitchell report into doping in baseball using social network analysis to create an interactive graph showing links between the accused players.
Sunday, 23 December 2007, 11:01
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The New York Times used a network graph to illustrate how the use of steroids spread in professional baseball.
Visualising the UK journalism-blogger network
Thursday, 8 February 2007, 21:52
As Robin Hamman points out, there are all sorts of personal connections between the journalists named in Press Gazette’s UK journalism blogroll feature today.
Because many of the bloggers named in the piece also use the social bookmarking tool del.icio.us, it is even possible to visualise these connections using the amazing (and addictive) Del.icio.us Network Explorer social network analysis tool.
The dark nodes in the network above are people named in connection with the Press Gazette piece. I’m the green dot in the middle (only because I started exporling the network with my own user name), and Robin Hamman is the orange one.
Jem Stone is the large node at the top with links to many of the others. The author of the Press Gazette feature, Graham Holliday is to Robin’s 10 o’clock position, and Richard Sambrook is at Robin’s 3 o’clock.
Further exploration of the network reveals some other important nodes in the network, whose involvment in the jounralism blogger community is largely centred on their del.icio.us use: Sun communities editor Ilana Fox and Trinity Mirror’s director of regional digital media, David Black. You should really be subscribing to their del.icio.us links’ RSS feeds.
Update: Ditto Alan Connor, Alistair Brown, and Bruce Combe.
