A New Score for News Junkies
 Newsquakes.
Scan the map of the world and hover your mouse above the seismic ripples. Headlines appear. Click to read the story.
I've been using this for a few days and it seems like most of the world's news comes from a few predictable places: European capitals, the US, and of course Iraq. A function of the news feed?
The real delight here would lie in seeing newsquakes from central Siberia, or Paraguay, and turning up stories you wouldn't otherwise.
Update 2/23/2003: Ronan Cremin writes in:
I'm the guy behind the newsQuakes site -- thanks for the link. The reason that no news appears from the countries that you mention is, simply, that none of the news sources I scan deems them newsworthy! I made quite an effort to get as broad a list of sources as possible, but inevitably, most of the news publications available are focused on the western world, though these countries sometime do figure.
If you know of good RSS news feeds, do write to Ronan and let him know.
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