"Print newspapers are declaring bankruptcy nationwide. High-profile blogs are proliferating. Media companies are exploring new production techniques and business models in a landscape that is increasingly dominated by the Internet. In the midst of this upheaval, it is difficult to know what is actually happening to the shape of our news. Beyond one-off anecdotes or painstaking manual content analysis, there are few ways to examine the emerging news ecosystem."
The above quote comes courtesy of Media Cloud, a new system that will allow a single user to sift through the vast seas of information being generated online around the world, and (hopefully) distill meaning from it all. The tools offered will allow you to see what topics are popping up the most in blog, t, who is talking about them and where the chatter is coming from. This is maybe the first big step towards the effective data mining of the new internet that I alluded to earlier.
While this system is still in the very early stages of its development, they do have a small trial worth taking a look at. It is going to be interesting to see how this story/device evolves over the coming year.
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