Newsmap

Newsmap is a very pretty tool for presenting a semi-graphical summary of what Google News thinks the day’s big news stories are.

It’s a shame it scales so horribly when there are lots of stories on view: some of those headlines are far too small to read. I know you can see a pop-up if you move your mouse over an entry, but I’d prefer not to have to move my mouse across a dozen ’smaller’ stories just to see if they happen to interest me.

Still, Newsmap leaves you in little doubt as to what the newspapers are talking about, and it’s good to see that you can pick a localised edition, replacing headlines about baseball and basketball with ones about football and cricket.

[Via The Copydesk]