washingtonpost.com launches 'Issue Coverage Tracker' for campaign ‘08
washingtonpost.com has released a cool new “Issue Coverage Tracker,” an application that compares the volume of press coverage between candidates and the major issues of the 2008 presidential race.
The “Issue Coverage Tracker” is part of a new initiative to offer innovative, portable applications that allow people to take washingtonpost.com journalism and databases off the site itself and embed on their own websites or on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. Among the others that are coming soon is an “Election Tracker,” which pulls campaign information from washingtonpost.com events, financial and news databases. Other washingtonpost.com political applications include “Iraq Strategy” “White House Watch” and Chris Cillizza’s “The Fix.”
You can see the full issue tracker here. The version that people can include on their own websites is below:
Developed by Daylife, a news distribution platform that analyzes and organizes news coverage from thousands of sources, the “Issue Coverage Tracker” allows users to customize their experience by candidate or topic, ranging from abortion to health care to the war in Iraq. Drawing information from thousands of news and opinion sources, the “Issue Coverage Tracker” provides a quick visual scale of coverage between candidates and the issues, allowing a user to:
* select a candidate and view the issues related to that candidate
* select an issue and view the candidates who focus on that issue
* expand or limit the coverage timetable
* customize the application to default to a particular candidate
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1 comments about 'washingtonpost.com launches 'Issue Coverage Tracker' for campaign ‘08'Interesting idea, but I wonder if this really lends itself best to a Flash presentation.
Also, the citations a) are often clipped in mid-sentence and b) do not click through to the original article, so they add little to what amounts to a citation count.
Posted by John C Abell at September 10, 2007 1:13 PM
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