I found Eo-Geo on Kerim's blog Keywords. It's a visual guide to global news:
What you're looking at is the current state of affairs. The redder a country is, the more of a news spike there is in that country. It scans news items for mentions of each country. It's not showing the total amount of news referencing each country; otherwise the US would probably be always red. Rather it compares the number of references to a 5-day moving average. So here we see that Zimbabwe has a news spike, because of the elections there. (Clicking on that country brings up an RSS feed of the news items, unfortunately not linked to their source.) Indonesia, on the other hand, is green, because although there's a lot of news coming out of there because of the earthquake, that story is "old" and so the current level of news is about average.
As Kerim points out, the news counter is "dumb" -- it makes no distinction between an article about North Korea's soccer team and its nuclear weapons. But if I were building a war room, I'd totally have this up on a big screen.
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