Slate’s Jack Shafer writes “In defense of the Anna Nicole Smith feeding frenzy“: Perhaps the Smith coverage doesn’t advance democracy in quite the same way gavel-to-gavel C-SPAN telecasts do. But the demand for natural disaster, tragedy, crime, murder coverage, and other “sensational” news has always ranked at the top of reader and viewer preferences. Giving […]
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Google's My Maps
UPDATED Google Maps personal version is going to be a huge change in the mapping market. It lets people annotate their own maps in rich ways, using the Web the way it was possible to use the application Google Earth before. It’s not new in concept. A startup called Platial has been doing this already, […]