Live radar

What the voices are publishing, and what is gaining attention

The newest pieces from voices in every world region, tagged with the places they are about, and a radar of how public attention is shifting across the seven frontiers and across languages. Updated automatically through the day.

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–new pieces in the last 7 days
–voices who published in 30 days
84voices and organisations followed
–fastest-rising topic this year
Signals around the world

What each region is talking about

Pieces are placed by the countries and regions they mention. When a piece names no place, we use the region its voice covers. Counts are pieces from the last 7 and 30 days.

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Signal stream

Latest from the voices

Titles and links come straight from each voice's public feed, in the language it was published in. The pin shows the places a piece is about; a grey pin means we used the region its voice covers.

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How to read the stream

Each piece is a scanning hit, not yet a signal. Ask three questions before you act on it:

  • Is it novel? Is it new to you, or not yet part of your plans?
  • Is it plausible? Can you describe how it could change the system?
  • Is it timely? Could it matter within your planning horizon?

If yes, add it to the directory with the adaptation it calls for.

Share it as a signal

Rising fastest this year

Topics whose Wikipedia attention grew most, relative to Wikipedia overall.

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Attention radar

Which issues are moving into public view?

For each frontier we follow five Wikipedia articles and compare the last 12 months of reading with the 12 months before, relative to English Wikipedia as a whole. A rising line means more people are looking an issue up: a sign that it is moving from the edge into the mainstream.

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Last 12 months 12 months before Meter: 1 Fading · 2 Cooling · 3 Steady · 4 Rising · 5 Surging

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Attention is not importance. True weak signals rarely show up here at all: by the time an issue gets steady Wikipedia traffic, it is already becoming a trend. Use the radar to see what is going mainstream, and the stream and the voices to find what comes before it. Articles that are new or were renamed are marked "new" and left out of the meter.
Attention by language

Where in the world is each frontier gaining ground?

The same topics, read in twelve Wikipedia languages. Each language stands roughly for a part of the world, so the map shows where interest in a frontier is rising or cooling compared with that language's Wikipedia as a whole.

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Languages are not countries: Spanish covers Spain and Latin America, French covers France and much of Africa, and Chinese Wikipedia is little used in mainland China. Cells with too little reading to compare are left blank. Use the map to ask questions, then check with the voices from that region.
Beyond individual voices

Radars, forecasts and open data

Institutions that scan the horizon in public, platforms where forecasts are scored, and open datasets to check a signal against before you act on it.

How the live data works

Fetched by our server, checked by you

Posts and cadence

Our server reads each voice's public RSS or Atom feed about every 90 minutes. We show titles and links only, so you read the full piece at the source. "Posts in 30 days" shows how active the voice is.

Audience

Bluesky follower counts come from Bluesky's public profile data, refreshed every six hours. Reach is useful context, but influence on foresight depends on what someone notices, not on how many follow them.

Attention

Page views come from the Wikimedia page-view statistics in twelve languages; titles in each language come from Wikidata. Places are found by matching country, city and region names in titles and feed categories. Your browser does not contact any of these services: the data is fetched and cached on our server.

Spotted something in the stream?

Turn it into a signal: say what is changing, and what adaptation it may call for. Or nominate a voice we should be following.