A friend of ours pointed us yesterday to the Multnomah Public Library's MapKit. This is Platial's hometown library system, so we're kind of geekily excited to see this. Our bosoms swell with local pride.
Platial News and Neogeography
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March 03, 2007
February 15, 2007
Bronx Rap--Where You At?
Bronx Rap just installed a Mapkit so that their readers can leave their marks. The blog covers hip hop of all types. They say of themselves, "We created this site to give it to you raw. The essence of real Hip-Hop must not be mis-understood. The pioneers of hip-hop must not be forgotten. It was an era that we as a people designed a language that would be our extension of expression and communication. The D.N.A of hip-hop was born in the Bronx N.Y, U.S.A Planet Earth. So you shall never get it confused. Bronx Rap has always been a controlling figure in Urban Media but we love all ill styles of Hip-Hop."
If you love hip hop, check out the blog and leave your mark on their map.
February 14, 2007
A Few New MapKits
I ran across a few MapKits today on blogs.
Multiplicity. The mapKit will be used to track a big trip, including Sao Paulo for Mardi Gras!
Messing About in Sailboats (nice Wind in the Willows reference) has a MapKit of Great Places to Sail.
Lunken's Blogg. Map of Intressanta Platser.
Voga is using mapKit to show its store location.
QPlog is using MapKit as a guest book.
February 13, 2007
MapKit for WordPress
Yesterday we launched our MapKit integration for WordPress. Thank you to all of our WordPress users for your patience and thank you to the WordPress team for all the work you did on your end to get the widget into your gallery. Now MapKit is working on WordPress, TypePad, and Blogger! I can't wait to see the new maps.
The first WordPress blog I know of to have installed MapKit is Texas Thoughts.
If you are a WordPress Blogger, you can get your MapKit by going to platial.com/mapkit/wordpress and just filling in the blanks there. Once you get your MapKit, send us an email with your blog url so we can link to you.
update:
some more WordPress blogs with MapKit
Taogate
Raincoaster
Adventures...
February 07, 2007
Platial's TypePad Widget is alive
One Click Magic!
February 06, 2007
A Campaign to Save Rural Post Offices
A Post Office is a community hub. I grew up in the Midwest, where for a town to feel "real" it needed only three things: a church, a tavern, and a Post Office. This is Money has been running a campaign to save rural Post Offices in the UK, which are being shut down for budgetary reasons.
They write: "Financial Mail reporter Toby Walne has travelled thousands of miles campaigning for the heart of communities from Land's End to John O'Groats. To kick off we've plotted some examples from his impressive archive of reports and pictures - with much more to come. But we want you to get involved."
You can read the stories on the map to get a real understanding of what the local Post Office means to these communities and to be inspired by stories of the creative ideas people are finding to help keep the Post Offices alive. This is Money readers are contributing information about their own endangered Post Offices. One Post Office manager from Baltasound, Unst writes, "A large part of my job is equivalent to a social service. I must stay open for the community - it's not about making money.
"If the post office closed, there would be nowhere left on the island to provide postal and benefit needs. Elderly people would be forced to catch a ferry to another island to pick up their pensions - an appalling state of affairs."
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