The Phizz Pop Design Challenge: Project runway for design & development agencies.

ben. online.

engage and inform users about politics

Offer up ways of digging through news & information.

some great data visualization here!

News visualized on left-right political spectrum. Stories organized from left->right and all stories are organized accordingly

Application is split into two segments - the previously discussed was the "informed" section. The 2nd half is the "engaged" portion.

MS Live map view software linked to events. They did this through local software app on the desktop.

Chat application built into it as well.

Also created an iPhone version of the application.

App is called "Tiny Ben"

Ability to call political representatives. We just called Senator Obama and left a message live. lol!

Question: How do you rank the articles on left<->center<->right?

Combination of systems that automate the process and human scoring - the two working together helps provide a more accurate scoring.