February 27th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Finding the right professor at the University of Virginia, Main Campus can make the difference between learning a lot in a course and making an “A” or struggling all semester.
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February 27th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in News Search, Unique Interfaces, Verticals, Visual | No Comments »
Every hour, 10×10 (tenbyten.org) scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories.
After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour’s most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10×10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.
Sources: Currently, 10×10 gathers its data from the following news sources:
* Reuters World News
* BBC World Edition
* New York Times International News
How to Use 10×10:
10×10 is designed to be simple and intuitive, so you should find it easy to use. When you open 10×10, you will see a grid of the top 100 world images that hour, ranked in order of importance, reading left to right, top to bottom. Along the right edge of the screen are listed the corresponding top 100 words, one for each image. Move your mouse around the images and you’ll see which words match which images. Move your mouse up and down the word list, and the corresponding images will light up. Click any image to zoom in and see the news headlines behind the word. Click the headline links to read the original news stories. Click the zoomed image a second time to see the image full screen.

If you enjoyed 10×10, you might be interested in WordCount, an interactive presentation of the 88,000 most frequently used English words, arranged as one very long sentence. More of Jonathan Harris’ work is at Number27.
Source: tenbyten.org
February 27th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Newcomers | No Comments »
CamMap shows a geographical index of USA webcams. Webcam locations are represented by markers. By clicking a marker you will be zoomed-in on the location and an information window is displayed, including the webcam pagelink. Markers are placed on the webcam’s location.
To start select a city from the listbox (top of map) or click a city marker.

Before you can say “Bob’s you’re Uncle,” you’re watching them!
