MediaShift has a story up about “TimeSpace”, an interesting mash-up of Google Maps with various news sources to show stories mapped out in time & geophysical location via the web. It’s an interesting way of seeing how quickly (or slowly) news propagates from it’s origin point across the major outlets.
TimeSpace, a Washington Post project, is a coverage mapping framework that displays content from multiple sources in space (via a map) and time (via a timeline). A display map, covering anything from a single city block to the world, is tagged to show viewers where news is being covered. Viewers can also view the news map as it appeared at different points over the preceding hours or days, giving them a picture of how the news events unfolded over time.
via MediaShift . Washington Post’s ‘Web Ninjas’ Build Map-Timeline Combo | PBS.
