A new age Viking Ship adventure

The timewatch website is following a Viking Ship expedition, with daily video, text and photos sent from the sea: www.bbc.co.uk/vikingship

They used a Thuraya DSL satellite system which, although geographically limited, worked pretty well and has the advantage of unlimited upload for a fixed fee.

Also see their interactive (google maps based) map on the external website. They did hope to incorporate this within the BBC site but the BBC testing procedures prevented this from happening on time.

Geo-Blogs: Jane Goodall & Shackleton are doing it

Spice up your blog and turn it into a GeoBlog. Here's a couple of examples that I am fond of.

The Jane Goodall Institute has a Google Earth-based geoblog. This allows you to open the blog entries in their relevant location on Google Earth providing a geographical context to the writing.

The Shackleton Geoblog is another great example. This time taking a historic adventure and putting it in its geographical context, based on the diary entries and ship logs of Ernest Shackleton during the Endurance expedition.

More information on this geoblog can be read on the Google Earth Community page

Flickrvision & Twittervision

Twittervision and Flickrvision are projects that mashup their communities in real time with Google Maps. A 2-D or 3-D globe shows where people have just uploaded images to Flickr or have updated their Twitter status. Amazing and totally addictive.