Google Earth: A New Form of Storytelling
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google have jointly released a Google Earth layer that visually illustrates the "Crisis in Darfur."
According to the Holocaust Memorial Web site, the Darfur project is part of an ongoing effort to document current and historical attrocities via the free Google Earth application.
Beyond the noble social and educational aspects of this project lies a novel journalistic technique. Google Earth is already showcased in news broadcasts (the "Google Earth Zoom" should be patented), but there's a tremendous opportunity in layering stories over Google Earth's robust mapping tools. Google Maps has already been mashed up and reworked in thousands of ways, but the global output of Google Earth offers another option to tell stories with breadth (globally) and depth (through the "zoom").
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