There has been a huge amount of "meaningful" chatter and natter across the media (in the non-rightwing media that is - FOX affiliates not included) about THE story - an article which appeared in this week's edition of the New Yorker.

The lunch with the President

In the article, a Pulitzer prize winner investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh reveals the connection between politicians and the businessmen reaping the harvest from "War on Terror" and the post-9/11 fears and anxieties - intelligently reading the sub-text of the rightwing ascendancy in the American politics and media over the last three years.

As usual, since the most of the popular media (in the US) is tilted towards rightwing/conservative politics, bloggers have done the trick. They have been spreading the news across the web analyzing it, trying to process the huge amount of relationships drawn by Hersh, digesting the huge web connections hidden in Hersh's article.

One noteworthy analysis - especially the graphical rendering of the web of connections is what attracted my attention:

Richard Perle's Issue du jour

This blog posting represents, how a simple idea of sketching a diagram and representing the textual information in a visual thought-drawing, could be so powerful and help people find new relationships and extend the web of relationships - the graphical rendering finds a new relationship between Theresa LaPore who designed the so called "butterfly ballot" and affected Bush election-win in Palm Beach Florida. It is interesting to note the importance and relevance of this type of approach for research and analysis. More importantly the idea of fusing collaborative debate, discussion and visualization could inject new product ideas for technologies that are dealing with information visualization (e.g., Anacubis or I2 Group - companies dealing with automated visual investigative analysis)