Archive for the ‘flu’ Category

Visualizing Swine flu news with Newsmap

Friday, May 1st, 2009

With its world-wide occurence and implications, Swine Flu shows up well in Newsmap. This makes it easy to see at at glance how the news media in different countries is covering the story. The screen shots below were taken at 8:00 AM this morning. A Flickr set has larger screenshots of ...

Twitter’s power to inform : Swine flu

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Working on Swine Flu this week has been especially interesting because it makes me reflect on how much things have changed in the information landscape since I worked on SARS in 2003 and Bird Flu in 2004-05. In those outbreaks, the main source of information was lists of links found ...