Jeff Clavier points out this very cool visualization of news on a map.

I particularly like this one: What's Up, a news map display developed by Jeroen Wijering, a UI designer recently graduated from the Eidhoven Design Academy. It basically displays headlines from a bunch of news (geolocated) RSS feeds on a planisphere.

I'd love to see overlays of new registrations on a social networking site. Or new images posted to flickr. Or events as they are posted to evdb. The map gives some very cool context.