API/RSS 1.1

field of interest:
How dense are the news? How news could be visually presented as a single unit?
I am using RSS from BBC News(for now) as a source. I want to built simple map of time and content. When the news is published online and what is the main subject matter? br> ( Are the news feed relevant or accurate to the current time of the event or they have been driven by "right" time to be broadcasted)
outcome:
to combine, recombine and compare different sources highlight certain concentration, density and flow of the data.
notes on real data visualization :
* timeline consists of four time swats, where the news headlines will be displayed, embedded as links.
* simple visual id - each news represented as a data point - equal by its layout different by its content.
* behavior of the single point - need to be consider and develop furthermore?how?

I am using jQuery plugin (Cross-domain RSS to JSON converter), which requests feed from different world news then the script converts the JSON object into javascript. The data (svg) is been sorted by time - the hour of being published and placed into simple timeline. src: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~mlakova/news_rss/

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Script

function drawTimelineFeeds(newsFeedId){

var url = "";
if(newsFeedId==1){
  url= 'http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml';
}
else if(newsFeedId==2){
  url= 'http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition_world';

}
else if(newsFeedId==3){
  url= 'http://www.worldcrunch.com/rss/';

}

// 
 $.jGFeed(url,

  function(feeds){
 
    if(!feeds){
      
      return false;
    }

  var i =  0; 
  var y = 0;
  var svg = document.getElementById ("svg");
    for(var i=0; i<feeds.entries.length; i++){
      var entry = feeds.entries[i];
      var a = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg","a");
      var line = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg","line");
a.setAttributeNS("http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink", "href", entry.link);
var pubDate = entry.publishedDate;
var d = new Date(pubDate);<br>
var hours = d.getHours(); //hours<br>
var minutes = d.getMinutes();<br>
var w = 1400; <br>
var x = hours*(w/24);<br>
var x1 = minutes*(w/1440);<br>
      var barwidth = 25.5;

      if(newsFeedId==1){
        line.setAttribute('x1', x);
        line.setAttribute('y1',x1);
        line.setAttribute('x2', x+barwidth);
         line.setAttribute('y2', x1);
        line.setAttribute("style","stroke: black; stroke-width: 4;");
        y+= 10;
      }
      else if(newsFeedId==2){
        line.setAttribute('x1', x);
        line.setAttribute('y1',x1+100);
        line.setAttribute('x2', x+barwidth);
         line.setAttribute('y2', x1+100);
        line.setAttribute("style","stroke:red; stroke-width: 2;");
        y+= 5;
      }
      else if(newsFeedId==3){
         line.setAttribute('x1', x);
        line.setAttribute('y1',x1+200);
        line.setAttribute('x2', x+barwidth);
         line.setAttribute('y2', x1+200);
       line.setAttribute("style","stroke: grey; stroke-width: 5;");
        y+= 5;
      }
 
         a.appendChild(line);
         svg.appendChild(a);
        

       }
     }, 400);
}

$(document).ready(drawTimelineFeeds(1));<br>
$(document).ready(drawTimelineFeeds(2));<br>
$(document).ready(drawTimelineFeeds(3));<br>

open for proposals or how the prototype could be moved a step further pls write your comments here: