Pretty Well The Best Website Ever.....no big deal.

Ten by ten is I think the perfect website for socials teachers. We have been told time and time again how important it is to keep in touch with current events and make sure we know world issues. This website is easy, interactive, and is ever-changing. It looks each hour at the top stories world wide from top news sources and presents them to you in an eye catching interactive way. You can they chose the headlines you like and check out the full story. Here is how the website explains it:
"Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input."
It seems to me that this website makes it so easy even just to get a snippet of major news stories that there is no excuse not to keep up. The other thing is by making it appealing to the eye, and interactive it would be easy to get students to use it and hopefully get them more informed on world news. Ultimately we may be able to create a generation of Socials students that are, "critical and not cynical."