"Political Streams" from Microsoft Live Labs

CNET reports that Microsoft Live Labs has released an application called Political Streams that tracks political news and talk from all over the web. According to the Live Labs announcement, "It mines information from all the blogs and Web sites out there, and all on one screen, lets you see the relative popularity of any given story, whether it's trending up or down, and tracks the number of mentions of the people and places mentioned in the story."