Category Archives: Maps

Where and How to Watch Election Day Results Online 0

As news organizations, watchdogs and voters prepare for the Super Bowl of politics, it seemed like a good idea to survey what will be online for Nov. 4.
Some sites will start their coverage early. Already, the massive, all-volunteer Twitter Vote Report has been logging and mapping voting problems and good experiences.
Most complaints so far have [...]

One for Fun: Want a Mapfaced or Evernote Beta Invite?* 12

It’s the end of the week, which means time for Ricochet’s One for Fun.
Today, I’m giving away private beta invites.
Update: All the invites are gone. If I get more in the future, I’ll post a new note.
Mapfaced allows users to create, search for and rate food and drink crawls in New York City. It’s positioned [...]

Toronto Star Maps Earth Hour Blackout 0

Downtown Toronto will go dark at 8 p.m. Saturday as citizens turn out the lights to observe Earth Hour, a World Wildlife Fund campaign to raise global awareness of the human impact on the environment.
The Toronto Star staff produced a map of participants, but apparently was overwhelmed by the response and didn’t map all 1,163 [...]

Mapping NCAA March Madness 1

With March Madness fully upon is, the question everyone seems to be asking is, “Where’s a good sports bar that has my favorite team’s game on?”
In New York, MapFaced has come to the rescue. The site, which is still in private beta, has a map of sports bars hosting NCAA March Madness broadcasts.

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Looking for Examples of New News 0

Ryan Sholin at Invisible Inked is looking for bright spots that redefine news.
He’s started a list that shows some creative Web executions. Several commenters have added sites of their own. For example:

Beatblogging.org, which launched during last year’s Networked Journalism Summit at NYU. A group of reporters and bloggers use it to incorporate community into [...]

Google, Twitter Team Up For Super Tuesday* 0

This just in from TrendStarks:
Google and Twitter are partnering to track Super Tuesday around the country. A live interactive map plots tweets.
Pretty cool.
Original post from Google.

Hyperlocal Achievement: LATimes.com Homicide Report Turns 1 0

My former colleagues at the L.A. Times noted a milestone in community reporting today: The Homicide Report has been active for a year.
Reporter Jill Leovy, who has been primarily responsible for the blog, wrote a feature about her efforts to record the facts of every homicide in Los Angeles, a city of an estimated 3.8 [...]

Leading Indicators, Or Following the Iowa Caucus* 0

So here we are, a few hours and counting down to what will be the first test of online national campaign coverage.
The Des Moines Register has a great homepage headline: “All Eyes on Iowa.” And it looks like the public has been busy commenting on articles and the blogs in the caucus section.
Iowa Public Radio [...]

Countdown to the Primaries 0

You’ve probably been blocking it, but elections are about three weeks away.
Pollingreport.com has been keeping an updated list of national polls, including the most recent Newsweek Iowa poll, which show Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama leading the GOP and Democratic hopefuls, respectively.
The primary dates have been shifting around quite a bit, making this election particularly [...]

Ideas for Flu Season 0

Ah, flu season. Today, the New York Times reported reasons why the flu spreads more easily in winter. (WebMD ran a shorter story on the same topic in late October.)
By coincidence, the AP reported a story about flu vaccines being ruined by improper storage.
Since the flu shorts are top of mind — National Influenza Vaccination [...]