SWAT team knocks on your door, hard, but they’ve got the wrong guy, or you’re sick, or you’re innocent and killed. Map mashup. via Dan Gillmor
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Shifting priorities
May 10, ’07
8:38 AM
If posting gets a little light around here, it’s because a few projects are working their way toward completion. One is nearly finished (more on that within the next few weeks) and another I just made a big change to get started on in earnest. There’s a third that’s on hold for a few minutes, but I’m sure I’ll be picking it back up shortly.
Anyway, I’m sending you away so you come back for more, later, when things have settled down a little bit here on my overcrowded desk/desktop/brain/life:
- The Fresno State Collegian online edition covered an off-campus shooting this week with breaking news updates, slideshows and video. Powered by WordPress.
- I’m about halfway through News, Improved. If you’re any sort of edito, manager or publisher with any level of seriousness in you about training your employees for the
futurepresent, you really need to pick up this quick read. Look for the examples at your circulation level, and have at it. - The relaunched-on-the-fly Kiowa County Signal in tornado-ravaged Greenburg, Kansas has a map up where readers can “flag” the places they knew until last weekend.
- On the mapping note, my colleagues at work have brewed up the beginning of something really cool for local search: Santa Cruz Spots. Maps+Reviews+Ratings = a really handy database. It’s still in beta, so feel free to kick it around and let me know what you think.
That’s it for now. Go away. Come back later.
Maps and stories – Simon Waldman
Apr 4, ’07
3:56 PM
“The current frenzy with mash-ups has set everyone off mapping everything to everything. It’s almost always quite smart – but does it actually help? And does it tell a story any better?” thx Mark.
twittervision
Mar 18, ’07
8:53 PM
Awesome. All twitters, everywhere, mapped, live. Run this in a natural disaster, on the day a war starts, election night, etc. and watch the world change.
Google Maps API Tutorial
Feb 18, ’07
10:14 PM
Thanks to Matt Waite, I have a starting point for feeding dynamic data into a map.
5 cool ways to use Yahoo! Pipes – franticindustries.
Feb 14, ’07
11:16 AM
More explorations of the new pipes. Lots of potential here, little time to toy with it…
Map Multiple Locations by Address
Feb 10, ’07
1:58 PM
Paste in your tab-delimited file of addresses, copy out a file of geocoded addresses to use in mapping apps.
Ball State gets the map on – Innovation in College Media
Jan 25, ’07
11:30 PM
The BSU Daily rocks a crime blotter map, Atlas-style. So frickin’ easy, we should all be doing this. Ball State is also the beta-tester for some new College Publisher stuff, including the full-of-incomprehensible-icons tabbed box on the right side of th