UNIVERSE: a web cloud of our collective consciousness

Universe is a system that can display the zeitgeist of information for arbitrarily defined data sets. This means that the experience of using Universe is different for each person, based on his or her interests. Universe offers several ways to specify the nature of the data set to be examined. The most flexible way is the search box in the top left corner of the screen, immediately to the right of the word "UNIVERSE".
Data sources
Universe data comes from Daylife's news API. Daylife aggregates news from thousands of online sources, large and small, from all over the world, and then analyzes this data automatically, extracting meaningful connections between the stories, people, places, companies, organizations, photographs and quotes that are found in the news.
Human involvement
Daylife's system runs autonomously, with no human editors choosing the news. Universe also runs automatically, updating its news data as frequently as Daylife does.
http://universe.daylife.com/