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Wednesday, March 31, 2004
WebProNews notes the debut of a new tool called Newsmap developed my Marcos Weskamp and his associates. Newsmap provides a graphical representation of headlines for various news sectors that are color-toned and sized based on presumed importance - similar in some ways to heatmaps developed for financial services such as SmartMoney's Map of the Market. The tool is more and experiment than anything else at this point - you'd have to be a pretty patient person to make use of some of the font sizes and angles used to represent relative relevance - but it's a very interesting exercise in automated news layout, more sophisticated in concept than those used by Google, MSN and Yahoo! for their news services. Will there be a time when we pull up an automatically generated news page on our desktops or I-Ink PDAs that has a newspaper-like front page and section layout with banner headlines for major items, etc., based on relevance to our specific needs and interests? Editors out there, don't go aghast at me, since this kind of tool may help in layout as much as replace it as a human art, but this kind of nascent concept should be watched closely for far more practical application.

By John Blossom - posted at 11:08 AM
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