MediaShift Innovation Spotlight

Washington Post's 'Web Ninjas' Build Map-Timeline Combo

by Megan Taylor

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.

• February 16, 2009
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MediaShift Innovation Spotlight

BronxRhymes Uses Locality, Maps to Track History of Hip-Hop

by Megan Taylor

BronxRhymes is an attempt to raise awareness of the history of hip-hop in the Bronx, the northwestern borough of New York City where the musical style is thought to have originated. The history of hip-hop is illustrated through rhymes and plotted on an online map.

• February 4, 2009
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MediaShift Innovation Spotlight

ProPublica Puts Spotlight on Tracking TARP Money

by Megan Taylor

ProPublica's Show Me the TARP Money is a simple map and chart reflecting the recipients of money provided through TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), a federal program that authorizes the U.S. government to buy assets from struggling financial institutions in an effort to remedy the subprime mortgage crisis. The site shows institutions that have been approved for assistance and keeps a running total of the number of institutions, the amount committed, and the amount invested so far. There is an RSS feed and a widget for the site as well.

• January 30, 2009
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MediaShift Innovation Spotlight

Neighborhood Watch Puts Florida Home Sales on the Map

by Megan Taylor

St. Petersburg Times' Neighborhood Watch is a database application that tracks weekly house sales in Pinellas and Pasco counties, Florida. Readers can search for home sales by county, ZIP code or neighborhood. Median price and sale count trends are tracked and graphed at one year, six month, three month, and one month intervals. On a neighborhood level, the site plots geographical data on Google Maps and suggests listings to prospective buyers by ZIP code.

• December 3, 2008
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