10×10 – Words and Pictures that Define the Time

This is a clever use of technology and photography. News headlines are scanned and appropriate images are selected to highlight the key words in each story. The result is a fascinating snapshot of a moment of world current affairs frozen in time.

10×10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris

Every hour, 10×10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour’s most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10×10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.

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