My favorite public radio program, Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, is now available as a podcast. A listing of all the American Public Media podcasts can be found here.

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USGS Earthquake Hazards Program » A Virtual Tour of the 1906 Earthquake in Google Earth:

The USGS has created a great educational resource that uses Google Earth as a tool to tell the story of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The site includes sections and Google Earth layers that detail the following:

• Global Geologic Setting of the 1906 Earthquake
• The San Andreas and Other Bay Area Faults
• The Northern California Earthquake, April 18, 1906
• Historic Photographs of the 1906 Earthquake
• Earthquake Hazards of The Bay Area Today

The site has links that open up in Google Earth that further explain and provide context to the details contained on the web site. Another great example of how people are using Google Earth as a platform for telling a story through geography.

Another interesting layer is the Real Time Earthquake update layer. It updates itself every 5 minutes giving you an almost instantaneous view of our active planet.

By way of Google Earth Blog…

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Lazybase is a web based data tool that allows anyone to design, create and share a database. Similar in functionality to ZohoCreator and Dabble DB.

Features include:

• No logins. A secret URL gives editing access to the database
• Create new types of items, or use the samples provided by Lazybase
• View lists in many ways, on maps or on graphs
• Link types together (for example have orders linked to customers)
• Easily add a view into your Lazybase database to your own website
• Bookmarklet generation
• RSS feeds

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