One of my favorite e-mail alerts, Information Aesthetics, led me today to Googlelabs' Newstimeline http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/
which, according to Information Aesthetics,
"organizes news stories and other information by date ..."
Only problem, the first link I see on the page when I go to http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/ is
"Dancing With the Stars': Mark Ballas now officially my favorite pro..."
Apr 14, 2009, 02:15 PM | by Mandi Bierly
Nothing against Mark Ballas or Mandi Bierly, but THIS IS NEWS??????
To paraphrase from the Bible in a way that may bring down the wrath of God (or maybe not, maybe she will just put something in her blog about it):
"What is news, that thou are mindful of it?"
Am reminded of T.S. Eliot's line:
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in information?"
As an armchair epistemologist, the choices in Newstimeline are fascinating.
As a librarian, I see here, yet again, the need for increased media and information literacy.
Also for me, this was a discovery of Google Labs, and I will rejoice in that. Check it out! http://www.googlelabs.com/
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