Wednesday, October 29. 2008

Washington Post Launches "TimeSpace Election" for Final Week of Election Coverage

The TimeSpace app allows time (publishing) and subject filtering of content (video, tweets, articles, etc.) about the election from a variety of sources in and outside of the Post. The results are plopped down on a Google Map housed in a Flash/Flex app. Users are invited to share their own election coverage.

Frankly, the app sort of blew my mind - it's a bit overwhelming at first. The help, a several minute video was helpful, but I was really looking for a more traditional set of help.

I could not find a way to filter the content geographically - changing the extent of the map does not seem to limit the results in any way. Keying in locations in the text search box was not successful in my attempts. I keyed in "State College" (Palin spoke there last night) and "Virginia" (Obama was there yesterday) but found no results during yesterday and today's time range. Strange.

- Press Release

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