10,000 Newspapers on Google Maps

I was alerted to this resource in a post by Mr Byrne on Free Technology for Teachers.

Newspaper Map says on its site:
In the Newspaper Map you can find newspapers from all over the world, translatable  to and from many languages with one click. In many cases you will also find links to the newspapers sites on social media like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. We collect, expand and update these links regularly.

For british users we have Newspaper Map UK

The following video explains how to use the resource




I can see this resource as being very useful for genealogists to locate newpapers from the cities and countries in which their ancestors lived.

MapMyFollowers.com

I was alerted this morning in a post from ReadWriteWeb to a new Twitter tool  http://www.mapmyfollowers.com that would be useful for geneabloggers who use Twitter. If ones knows where one's followers are then one can tailor tweets to that audience.

I sometimes look at my list of Twitter followers to see where they are geographically but this involves looking at their entries one by one. Mapmyfollowers allows one to use a mashup developed by Scotia Systems . ReadWriteWeb says "that allows you to see where in the world the people who follow you on Twitter are. Up to 1000 at a time can be viewed on a map and there's something magical about the resulting experience."

I logged into MapMyFollowers and, after giving them access to my Twitter account, was able to produce a map within a minute or two.

Geniaus' Followers on Twitter

Additionally MapMyFollowers produces a word cloud of the bios of your followers so that you can gather a little more information about your audience.

Geniaus' Wordcloud

What this tells me is that most of my followers have an interest in Genealogy or History and that a large proportion of them are from the US.  I hope to connect with more Australian Genealogists soon.