Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wesley Fryer

Visual News

The ten by ten website is an interesting example of current events grafted to visual literacy. The site slogan is: “100 Words and Pictures That Define the Time.” According to the website:

With no human editors and no regulation, 10×10 is open and free, raw and fresh, and consequently a unique way of following world events. In 10×10, we respond instinctively to patterns in the grid, visual indicators of relevance. When we see a frequently repeated image, we know it’s important. When we see a picture of a movie star next to a picture of dead bodies, we understand the extremes that exist in our world. Scanning a grid of pictures can be more intuitive than reading headlines, for it lets the news come to life, and everything feels a bit less distant, a bit closer to heart, and maybe, if we’re lucky, gives us pause to think.

The website uses phrase searching to identify the top one hundred news stories on the web, and grabs an image from each one for its 10 x 10 matrix. Think of it as Google News based on linked and prioritized photos.

Click on an image to view 5 of the top headlines about that topic. I learned about this listening to the Information Overload session from Bloggercon3 led by Robert Scoble, which is available as a podcast.

The ten by ten history links are perhaps the most amazing, and potentially useful in the classroom. Click the HISTORY link at the bottom and then select the year, month, day and hour for the news images you want to see. The site archives a visual snapshot of world events, along with linked news articles, for each hour of earth history since the site began in 2004. Very cool. Very powerful.

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