Wednesday, March 19, 2008

I HATE FOX NEWS

I have gotten into the habit of watching the news every night the past couple weeks. It seems like the CNN and Fox News compete to see which can spin their agendas more. As for the Rev. Wright issue goes, it seems as if MSNBC as been the only station that has really analized the success or failure of the speach. Fox only talks about the failure. (Greta needs to contract something dreadful) While CNN regard Obama as an Ubbermiench who can do no wrong.

Enough of my rant on mainstream news and on to the task at hand. Newsweek has a really cool delgate model:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/68123

I like this model because of it's user friendly interface. the javascript is pretty cool here. With the mouse-over coding and such, it works really well.
It has bar graphs followed by a GIS followed by a timeline showing when the next elections occure.

The only thing that confuses me is why Hilary got the points for Michigan and Florida. Did I miss something???

1 comment:

Vicki said...

I too am confused as to why HC gets credit for Michigan and Florida. But, alas ....

Now back to the system. Yes, this is interesting. Now, provide a critique as to what is misleading, difficult to follow or inappropriate? From a user interface perspective, for example, the color choices are not good for telling the differences between the candidates. What about the model?