@craigmod

The Concept

News over time. Looking at connection behind the fold.

Everymoment Nowis looking to do just as it says: to provide "context and scope to the moments shaping our world."

If stories 'above the fold' are important and those 'below the fold' secondary, then Everymoment Now is looking 'behind the fold'; that is laterally, through time. Moments connected with an event both above and below the fold are brought next to each other to gain insight into the now.

People, places and events in the context of media are like stocks — they peak and bottom out over time. They have a media history. There are two insights to be culled from this:

• Being able to see these spikes (variance) in news coverage over time will illuminate potentially hidden patterns, stories or correlations.
• Providing a simple, clean and intuitive interface to this data will allow quick access to and assessment of these patterns and stories.

Everymoment Now aims to illuminate the news through this historical context.

Select Press

• Metafilter: In short, Everymoment Now is tracking hundreds of news sources on the election and is filtering the news to provide a view of the news that you might not otherwise have.
• Morning News: Every day, Everymoment Now tracks the number of articles reference that reference each candidate.
• Jason Santamaria: Everymoment Now, a new site that aims to illuminate the news through historical context, surfacing media history based around people, places, and events from moments in time.
• Print Mag: If you're hooked on election news, you can track which candidate has been getting more media attention with Craig Mod's elegant infographic, Everymoment Now: Obama Vs. McCain: Context and Scope to the 2008 US General Election.
• http://yourmonkeycalled.com/post/49663960/everymoment-now-looks-at-the-relative-news
• NYTimes Ideas Blog
• http://www.korkitchen.com/2008/09/11/infographics-08/
• Flowing Data
• Swiss Miss
• Konigi
• Infosthetics
• Design Verb
• BFFB
• North Temple
• Yewknee: ...the real beauty of the site comes on the detail pages, an infographic dream.
• Very Short List
• Visualizeit: EveryMomentnow.com is a wonderful website that tracks the number of news articles that are focused on one of the presidential candidates. Here is an example visualization from their main page. It reminded me of Tufte’s Sparklines, which convey information so succinctly.
• Well Formed Data Election Visualization Roundup