Thursday, April 17, 2008

Kill the Cliche

I happened upon a site today called Kill the Cliche. It's a pretty cool concept as it...
aims to illustrate how smart data analysis can help us improve media. Every hour our tracker queries sites of major newspapers for new content and searches for cliches in it. At the moment, we have about 175 cliches in our database; this is by no means exhaustive and we hope to expand it overtime.
The site tracks from papers like the NY Times, The Washington Post and USA Today, finding All Time Cliches, Today's Cliches and This Week's Cliches. It also points out the major offenders, with All Time, Today's and This Week's journalists.

More and more of these tracking sites seem to pop up every day, but this one actually seems like it could be useful, especially for younger journalists.

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