As visual communications tools are at last coming into their own on the Web, it is sometimes the simplest implementations of technology that can make the greatest impact.
Take, for example, Newsmap, a useful tool for measuring the balance of news coverage (www.marumushi.com).
Newsmap uses an algorithm from Google News to visually display how news is being covered at that very moment. The bigger the story, the bigger the space allotted to it on Newsmap. The tool allows the user to select ...