links for 2008-07-10

“HealthMap is also usable by the gen­eral pub­lic. It loc­ates the out­breaks on a world map and cre­ates a color-coding sys­tem that indic­ates the sever­ity of an out­break on the basis of news report­age about it.”

Map­ping ‘rumoured’ cof­fee shop closures…

“There is a cer­tain camaraderie in journ­al­ism that lies just under the sur­face, but mani­fests when one of us is con­fron­ted with a math problem.”