Cloud on Economist.com aggregates reader comments
April 16th, 2010Posted by Laura Oliver in Handy tools and technology
Not sure how long this has been a feature on the Economist’s website, but aggregating readers’ comments around different topic areas is an interesting way in to a story.
The cloud of terms show the most popular topics from across the site and can be viewed for one-week, two-week or a 30-day period:
Clicking on a term displays all reader comments from across the website relating to that subject, with a link to what article they were left on.
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