Yeah, I like your idea too, and I’m always fond of projects that pull in existing services like that. Some smart travel oriented business like Lonely Planet or Global Gossip should set a lazy half a mill aside and build something like that.

The whole stories via map is really weird. Coming up with your own mental geographic map of a story is something we’re so used to doing… having it shown to us as an important part of the narrative is odd. I should probably be spending more time looking at both the map and the words but there’s a tendency to just read quickly and just keep hitting next.

On a slightly related tangent I was thinking how best to use the media and stories we created on the recent trip to asia: what would be a great way to tell a story about our trip using photos, videos, maps and narrative, whilst still retaining the links to my social networks such as flickr, facebook, etc, for commentary and socialising. I haven’t really given it much thought as to the implementation yet… but thinking about it now, that might be an interesting web app. There’s travel diaries and the sort, but anything to let you really tell a story?