Slate has an interesting application that they have just put on-line. They call is News Dots. What the application does is it connects the day’s news events in a social network. Some of the networks are isolated from one another, such as David Cos and Mount Saint Helens. Other news stories connect to one another in a myriad of ways, such as U.S. President Barack Obama connecting to 38 other topics. I like the fact that you can jump to a specific news tag, and even go back in time on a day-by-day basis. The one downside that I see to this social network of news stories is that Joseph Andrew Stack, who crashed a plane into a IRS building a few hours ago, is not mentioned. In other words, it appears that breaking stories may be missed. I am sure that the application will be upgraded over time to include this feature.
