I made a tool which identifies streaks of public interest (as expressed by Wikipedia page views) in two public figures, finds overlaps, and turns those overlaps into date-bounded Google / G News searches. I’ve been using it to try to understand the longevity of news events. Currently Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein have an 11-day […]
“Protest” as a Wikipedia Topic for Public Interest
After the protests this weekend, I wondered if there had been a surge in public interest in the general Wikipedia topic of “protest.” So I plugged it into Wikipedia Seismograph to find out. Oh yes, there absolutely was. This also gave me a chance to test Wikipedia Attention Surfer to see what other topics were […]
Mojeek Goofery
Over the weekend I got a Google Alert with an ostensibly “new” news story that was actually from 2010, so I’ve moved “find a substitute for Google Alerts” to the top of my to-do list. I already have a news API I like okay, but that won’t monitor new Web pages for me — for […]