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Using Google Mashups To Chart Violence In Kenya

Popular blog BoingBoing posted a link today to a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http:%2F%2Fbbs.keyhole.com%2Fubb%2Fdownload.php%3FNumber%3D1085072&t=k&om=1&ie=UTF8&ll=0.459806,35.26386&spn=0.001877,0.002682&z=18&source=embed">new Google map recording violent episodes in Kenya.

"Imagine if this was done with all such incidents of violence throughout the country," blogger Erik Hersman writes. It's an idea that will take international collaboration; you can submit an event to the map here.more

Mapping and Twittering the San Diego Fire

In what NPR reported as "the largest evacuation since Katrina," KPBS News in San Diego has updated area residents on evacuation centers and fire containment with a Twitter account and a Google map in addition to a live radio stream.more