I wanted to See All of the News From Today
I saw a panel discussion with the guy who did this project before. It is pretty ambitious. Essentially, this is a huge network of people who scan the front page of their local newspaper and submit it to this collection of covers. daily. It is a constantly refreshing overview of the state of the global consciousness. It is not every newspaper yet, but, as I understand, that is the goal. Of course, this project is dependent upon physical print- upon the concept of a newspaper front page. It would not be as effective to make a similar conglomeration of the daily headlines using, say, internet home pages, as most news sites are not as regionalized as a printed paper is. So, this project acts upon physical reality, compiling it in a way that would be physically impossible without digitalization and the globalized communal work ethics enabled by networking.One other thing that is nice about this, is that it doesn’t attempt to say anything. There is not editorial voice, or artistic presence providing access to the information for you. No translations, no links. The site is completely 2-dimensional. The information is left to speak for itself, to be interpreted as it is. As such it is a pretty radical visualization of the international current moment.If only the images were higher resolution and a pdf style zoom in zoom out function was supported so that the smaller text would be visible.http://allnews.greyisgood.eu/
where did you find it, that’s amazing, one of my classmates was working on a project that was tracking the news from here and brazil for two weeks, not quite the same scope i see.
I first heard about this at a panel discussion at the ars electronica in 2006. As I understood, the guy was still piecing together the network for it back then. I saw it this time on the Rhizome project list.
Wow, I agree – it’s really nice that there’s no narration, editorial, translation, etc. It just is what it is, and it’s powerful and simple. As you said, a slice of global consciousness.
Did you guys see the above? It’s a pingback from the author of I Wanted to See All of the News From Today”. He has reblogged Tyler’s post on his own blog.