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Google is facing legal action over its decision to not label the body of water separating Iran and neighbouring Arab Gulf states on its online map service. The Iranians call the waterway the Persian Gulf, while Arab countries often refer to it as the Arabian Gulf.

An Infographic on world censorship. Nice to know that we made it to the map!! :-(

A mini-site on e-waste in Ghana. Includes video, interactive e-waste map, FAQ, image gallery, and discussion. The video (20 mins) can be watched online (as of Feb 2010).

Througt the use of networks, cell phones and maping tools people are saving lives in Haiti

A Google maps and database combination that plots the home and workplace addresses of released criminals. Enter a ZIP code and find out about your area. Includes details of crimes and offenders, including their photographs. Very good for a discussion of what type of information should be available, and the rights of the subjects of that information.

Thinking Machine 4 explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought. Play chess against a transparent intelligence, its evolving thought process visible on the board before you. The artwork is an artificial intelligence program, ready to play chess with the viewer. If the viewer confronts the program, the computer's thought process is sketched on screen as it plays. A map is created from the traces of literally thousands of possible futures as the program tries to decide its best move. Those traces become a key to the invisible lines of force in the game as well as a window into the spirit of a thinking machine.

Over a single generation, the Web and digital media have remade nearly every aspect of modern culture, transforming the way we work, learn and connect in ways that we're only beginning to understand. FRONTLINE producer Rachel Dretzin (Growing Up Online) teams up with one of the leading thinkers of the digital age, Douglas Rushkoff (The Persuaders, Merchants of Cool), to continue to explore life on the virtual frontier. The film is the product of a unique collaboration with visitors to the Digital Nation Web site, who for the past year have been able to react to the work in progress and post their own stories online. Dretzin and her team report from the front lines of digital culture -- from love affairs blossoming in virtual worlds, to the thoroughly wired classrooms of the future, to military bases where the Air Force is fighting a new form of digital warfare. Along the way, they begin to map the critical ways that technology is transforming us -- and what we may be learning about ourselves in the process.

816 front pages from 74 countries. The Newseum displays these daily newspaper front pages in their original, unedited form. And has links to their websites, amazing.