100 pictures, arranged in a 10x10 grid, showing the biggest news stories of the hour.
Each hour is presented as a picture postcard window, composed of 100 different frames, each of which holds the image of a single moment in time. Clicking on a single frame allows us to peer a bit deeper into the story that lies behind the image. In this way, we can dart in and out of the news, understanding both the individual stories and the ways in which they relate to each other.
10x10 runs with no human intervention, autonomously observing what a handful of leading international news sources are saying and showing. 10x10 makes no comment on news media bias, or lack thereof. It has no politics, nor any secret agenda; it simply shows what it finds.
You can pull up clickable headlines by clicking on the pictures or the one-word headlines on the right side at the site, but the pictures are not explained. This screenshot was taken at 11PM Wednesday (the time in Italy). Link -via YesButNoButYes
http://news.google.com/?imv=1
Though, it needs large screen to work well.
I click on Zimbabwe on the right, whihc gives me the picture of Morgan Tsvangirai, so far so good. Then I try to click on it : no story, nothing.
Then I look at the headlines : a coconut tree sale in Ivory Coast, and child labor in China. WTF?
...except, perhaps, for any that might inherently be in the the "handful of leading international news sources".