Microsoft Live Labs launches political meme tracker
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft's Live Labs team has just released a new way to track political discourse on the Web. Called Political Streams, the tool tracks news stories on both blogs and traditional-news sites, and ranks it based on velocity and overall coverage.
What's really neat is that it also keeps track of mentioned names and places in each story, to show how much coverage that person or part of the world has received within the last 30 days.
Each item can be drilled down into a little further, which is where you can see a small one-paragraph summary and the two charts for the coverage of people and places.