{"id":62,"date":"2005-05-14T12:33:35","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T16:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/05\/14\/buzztrackerorg\/"},"modified":"2005-05-14T12:33:35","modified_gmt":"2005-05-14T16:33:35","slug":"buzztrackerorg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/05\/14\/buzztrackerorg\/","title":{"rendered":"Buzztracker.org"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First off, check out the newly launched Buzztracker (www.buzztracker.org<\/a>),
\nput together by a 24-year old American expatriate in Tokyo, Craig Mod.
\nMr. Mod started working a few years back on what he thought was an art
\nproject — dots and lines representing news stories around the world
\nand the links between them. All very pretty, but the closer you looked,
\nhe recalls, “suddenly land masses began to emerge and you started
\nforming associations.” News and geography were linked and Buzztracker
\nwas born.<\/p>\n

Launched last month, Buzztracker appears as a map of
\nthe world, dotted with red circles of varying size. The circles denote
\nnews stories gathered from Google News emanating from that location on
\nthe date in question, the size depending on the amount of media
\ncoverage. Each circle is linked by a gray line to other locations
\nmentioned in the stories. Click on a circle and you’re taken to a list
\nof news stories originating from that point.<\/p>\n

It’s an elegant, simple view of what’s going on in the
\nworld. But it’s more than that: The links underline the way that events
\nin one place are connected to those in other places — one great
\nexample is the recent spat between China and Japan about how each
\ncountry was represented in respective textbooks, superficially resolved
\nby a summit in Indonesia. On Buzztracker you see a triangle of thick
\nred dots linked by thick gray lines. Such webs, Mr. Mod says, are
\n“supposed to get people thinking about why these connections exist.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First off, check out the newly launched Buzztracker (www.buzztracker.org), put together by a 24-year old American expatriate in Tokyo, Craig Mod. Mr. Mod started working a few years back on what he thought was an art project — dots and lines representing news stories around the world and the links between them. All very pretty, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globalization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}