(1-30) decide how much serverdata needs to be considered.
each rss feed contains 30 news sources that are sorted by the current mainstream opinion. fewer items reduce server load.

the amount of time that should be considered by the server side script. on day-graphs the scale is in hours and on week graphs the scale is in days. the currently used timerange is returned from the server.

1222038000 ?

the currently hovered graph or once you selected a timerange the datasource to compare the results

the type of data returned from the server

name gives a overview of the headlines that appeared at that time with information about the growth or shrink of the referencing numbers
time plots a timeline fitting to the screen and trys to reduce the corresponding data to give you a overview of the numbers and combined with the level to follow the appearance of news in the timeline

data store

newslog

this is the sourceforge version of the tool

it is limited to about 1000 rss files that are processed. normaly there are 10000 files for this range in time

sourceforge generously hosts this installation, dont try to overload the system by accessing too much data at once the demo then needs to be reduced to even less files