Be Still My Geographer's Heart!

Okay, my journalist's heart needs to be still too. The Washington Post has put together a visual representation of the spatial distribution of news stories around the world. What could be better?

The embedding feature isn't working real well right now, but this link takes you to the map for April 29 about 8:15 pm.

Though clearly sponsored by Sprint, the Post has written up a wonderful description of the in-house development of this tool.

VERY cool widgets

This has to be the perfect widget for a geography class. How fun!