Educational Origami

http://next.yahoo.net/download/newsglobe/index.html 

What a neat tool -  take current headline news story from round the world published on Yahoo. Add one interactive globe, mash the two together and you have Yahoo News Globe. Spin the planet, select the stories by the red skyscrapers - the bigger the tower the more news stories, click on the tower to see the stories and then click on the story to open in a new tab.

Do a search for NewsGlobe and you will also find this site

http://www.daden.co.uk/pages/000188.html 

they too have Newsglobe - and here is what they say

“NewsGlobe is an innovative software service that takes the contents of RSS, RDF and ATOM feeds and plots the items against a map of the world. The feeds can be anything from news stories to retail locations. Whatever you can get into a feed we can try and plot it on a map!

The result is a graphic way to display your information to your customers and users - speeding comprehension and aiding understanding.

Currently NewsGlobe supports the two major web mapping applications, Google Maps and Google Earth.”

here is a link to the Bird Flu tracker - http://www.daden.co.uk/pages/000208.html