&#39;This scary new reality&#39;
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Growing up with my two brothers in Thornhill, Ont., I had dreams of playing in the NHL for as long as I can remember. From the time I started skating at two and a half, to playing on my first hockey team at
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Putting the recent collapse in perspective.
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The scares come more from human predicaments than from special effects and blaring music.
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In a few years, Iraq will be a distant, if painful memory. Our new focus almost certainly will be on Iran and North Korea. In the strange way that geopolitics
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By Peggy Hollinger in Paris, Steve Johnson in London, and Jennifer Hughes in New York. Herve Gaymard, France&#39;s new finance minister, yesterday warned of a global âeconomic catastropheâ if the US, Europe
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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A CEO reveals some horrible news.
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A new documentary revisits perhaps the most horrifying "incident" in modern warfare
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TONY EASTLEY: Scientists have confirmed there has been a dramatic and unexpected increase in carbon dioxide levels. It&#39;s raised fears that the ability of the earth&#39;s oceans and plants to absorb carbon dioxide may be declining.
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Michael Crichton, whose new novel suggests there is no such thing as global warming, said in an interview that we have become a nation of worrywarts.
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Grafting media manipulation onto techno-terror, the latest âDie Hardâ expertly captures a current fear: What if weâre disconnected from our information overload?
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A new exhibition in London lifts the lid on the real-life world of spying, amid concerns about a developing &quot;Big Brother&quot; society and its effects on individual freedoms and civil liberties.
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William Langewiesche's new book on proliferation is quite scary. The good news is that he gets most of it wrong.
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The race to unveil amazing new gadgets sometimes turns ludicrous, but it could be worse. Much worse. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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A bizarre scenario takes theories of modern cosmology to the limit.
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Scientists are puzzled, but the phenomenon seems to fit the latest global-warming models.
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It is safe to say that almost no one in this country seems happy with the way things are right now. But one proposed &quot;solution&quot; could be even worse than the current wave of riots, floods and homelessness.