Update: Newsmap and Google News have worked out a solution and it looks like the project will be able to continue without interruption.

The Marcos Weskamp project Newsmap, one of the first and arguably one of the best pieces of 'news visualization' software has run into a bit of a snag: Google shut down access to their data. While Google explicitly states 'screen scrapping' is in violation of their Terms of Service, the fact of the matter is Google itself scrapes the web every day and the blocking of access to a free, non-profit resource like Newsmap is both hypocritical and sad.

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