Journalists, get mapped

Paul Bradshaw has a Google Maps mash-up of the readers on his excellent Online Journalism Blog. He explains the idea and how it works here and here, and if you haven’t experimented with mash-ups yet, this is a dead simple way to get started. Just add yourself or your news organization, with a description or a link to your blog or whatever.

I was pleasantly surprised to find The Star-Ledger there already, with this review:

As good as a newspaper gets: The Star Leger is as respected in New jersey as any other newspaper. Columnists have written books and appeared on television documentaries. Sports coverage is second to none.

And I didn’t write it — really.

Anyway, Paul’s map is a cool way to find other journalists with an interest in online news from across the globe. As he says:

I’m hoping that a) this will allow OJB readers to network with each other more easily; and b) this will provide a platform for experimentation/mashups (perhaps a mashup with WiredJournalists.com?) - if anyone has any ideas, let me know.