Daypop wordbursts

I'm increasingly fascinated by applications which try to aggregate as much human thinking as possible into one narrow focus. Google's Zeitgeist digests a year of searches into a page. Others are faster, more to the moment: Blogdex gathering up leading blog stories, Google News bubbling up the leading stories from thousands of media sources, Daypop grabbing the biggest News and blog posts it can find.

My current favorite is Daypop's Wordburst. This sorts out leading stories, then extracts keywords from them. It's like a poetic language snapshot of the global brain - here's the latest:

basra clarett billiton diana indicts mice ore negotiable coffins mgm screeners beluga eases assurances wetlands explode hewitt macgill doublethink

Comments

[Steven Kaye]

I like Zeitgeist because it tracks gaining and declining queries. I wonder how many corporations look at searches on their internal databases and try to identify patterns in a similar - seems an obvious step.