This is a pretty cool idea:
map all the instances of “X is the new Y” in a set of documents and see how things interrelate. No mention of what the documents were, or what the arrow lengths mean, but it’s still fun to look at, and would be cool to replicate, esp. on a corpus of blog posts, marketing blurbs, or product reviews.
Via VisualComplexity
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February 25th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
i’m curious to see “X is Y 2.0″
X->Y
February 25th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
“Supporting our troops is the new AIDS”. “Fat is the new climate change.” I was momentarily confused by the non-sequitors, but they do turn up actual articles with a Google feel lucky search. Interesting. I wonder how they get rid of false hits like “FooWidgetX is the new version of widget software from BarCorp”.
One should be able to punch in “* is the new *” in Google and scrape all the matching phrases that are returned. Annoying that Google no longer exposes a decent search API.
February 25th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
I like the part where there are two instances of the number 30 with the connecting arrow pointing both ways.
February 26th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
yiming: did google used to expose a better search API?
does waybackmachine show it?
February 27th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
I saw this list (via kottke) a while ago . . . looks like he just Googled “is the new.”
Yiming, I think they must go through and edit out the hits you describe. Though I hesitate to say this here, some things just can’t be programmed . . . yet.
February 28th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
I see on that list “cell phones are the new cigarettes,” a phrase I think often, have made some digiart about, and that will soon be the topic of my second post EVAR to the ‘loaf, a venue in which I am warming to the idea of sharing my Photoshoppian artistic vision.
March 7th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
A number of years ago, I really tried to find the first citation of “brown is the new black” and failed miserably. I wonder what I was procrastinating doing….