Well, the election is now over. How did things go in your neck of the woods?
We had a change in our Member of Parliament. We went from Orange to Blue.
Like many Canadians, I suspect, I was channel surfing last night to see the various election coverages. I lost count of the number of times that the CTV coverage explained the colours on the scoreboard on the bottom of the screen. I remember thinking that if that had to be explained to you, then maybe you shouldn’t be able to vote.
Digitally, I like to stay on top of the news and last night was no different. In addition to the television, I had my laptop open monitoring things. I’ve been playing around with a new news resource, Newsola. It claims to be based upon NewsMap according to the link in the bottom right corner. NewsMap relies on Flash but Newsola doesn’t so that was refreshing and it ran it my browser without intervention on my part.
Instead of providing you with one story, Newsola provides you with them all. Or, at least, what fits on the screen. Bigger and brighter means more relevancy. As I sat back to watch things, I knew I was going to write this post so I took a screen capture roughly at 8:00pm.
Of course, the first thing that I did was change the country to Canada and the topic area to National … it would have been tough coverage without that!
After I captured the screen shot, I clicked on the “Auto refresh” to have the stories refresh themselves without my intervention.
This morning about 8:00am, I reloaded to see the latest.
The news kept flowing nicely which was a nice testament to this product. For full details about how it works, click on the About link at the top of the screen.
Now, National isn’t the only category that you can select for stories. If you’re into monitoring, Technology, there’s a button for that. Just know that the selections are additive so unchecking a category that you don’t want can be really helpful.
doug -- off the record 
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