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Link of the day for Saturday, August 4

Newsmap is a new service by Marumushi, a Tokyo artist with a flair for modern themes. His latest work involves aggregating all of the news headlines from Google News, and presenting the headlines in terms of relevance to the people, based on popularity and blog responses – no sign-up required.

The result is a puzzle-type map with headlines laid out in squares. The size of the square tells you how popular it is – the larger the square, the more relevant its headline might be to you. The colour of the square indicates the category, so you can quickly see when category everyone else in the world is interested in.

One of the features I like is you can filter the news headlines by country. It does not seem to remember this setting, so you must reset it every time you launch the Flash application. I do not see this as being a huge problem for a lot of people.

I’m sure Marumusi will not be the last person to come up with innovative ways to modernize journalism. Just wait and see!

[www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap]