Placeopedia matches Wikipedia articles with places on the Google map. Browse, syndicate or add your location. There were a lot of locations I could not find...

literature-map lets you search for authors within literature (and philosophy).The application visualises the proximity of the authors/thinkers in a relational network. Authors like Jelinek, Houellebecq, Foucault, Eco for example, are bunched in tag clouds based on affiliations and influences.

The literature map is part of gnooks, 'a self-adapting community system' to search for books and writers. gnod in turn is 'a search-engine to find things you don't know about.' You can search music, books, movies or find like-minded people. The entire system leads back to the 'virtual playground' of Marek Gibney.

Following the Delicious cloud one can view the most popular links by age: 24 hrs. or 48 hrs. In both cases a " 'NEW' site is a site not present in del.icio.us before yesterday." The all time popular links are also worth a look. Feeds are available. Great source for bloggers.

Del.icio.us has just  turned 2 years old yesterday. A wonderful free service for bookmarking all your favourites or to browse that delicious universe.  Strong current has a large cloud on del.icio.us.

OhmyNews.com (in its English version) is on the way to pose a challenge to top-down news dissemination. The user-generated news of thousands of citizen journalists working in a transnational collaboration poses a refreshing change and challenge to the old media, sometimes regurgitated via blogs. There are many participating global citizens reporters and some well known contributers. Just register and make the news!