MSN Celebrity UK has a pretty cool mash-up of celebrity events on a map. This could be something fun to do but here in SoCal, you’d have to think of another way of plotting the data since celebrities are a commodity.

Going along with this is Coolspotters, basically a database of celebrities and the products they use. Mike Davidson of Newsvine fame gives a good overview.

LiveNewsCameras.com is an aggregation of online video streams from television network affiliates. You can easily move from city to city, seeing what is going on throughout the country. There is also an online moderator who updates which streams are doing interesting things.

bub.blicio.us has additional information on it. This looks very interesting and a great way of keeping tabs on anything happening.

LiveNewsCameras.com started on Super Tuesday with only a couple of feeds focusing on the Republican and Democratic candidates. What started as a humble newsroom experiment has earned the participation of ABC, CBS and NBC stations.Using Mogulus, the site also features a livecasting moderator who helps us navigate through the available and upcoming content. And media isn’t truly social if it’s not portable. You can also embed “the moderator” on your site, blog or social network profile and also interact them them and other views in real time.

Random thinking while waiting for the coffee to work its magic
• The kids were very excited when Miley Cyrus walked down the Red Carpet and presented one of the Best Songs.
• I’m guessing that if people in the seats didn’t have kids, they had no idea where three of the Best Songs came from.
• I have a crush on Diablo Cody and it has nothing to do with the pin-up girl tattoo or the dress she wore. Honest! Really! Seriously!
• For the first time in years, I didn’t see any of the Best Picture nominees. Next week, I’ll take care of that.
• Nice shout-outs to the iPhone and the Wii.
• Overall, watching via Tivo is still the way to go.

According to the New York Times, tomorrow The Atlantic will be opening up their archives beyond just for subscribers.

Readership will get another boost starting Tuesday, when TheAtlantic.com will abolish the fire wall that has allowed only subscribers to the print magazine to see most of its articles online. It will make its archive accessible, too.

I think they are on the right track in terms of moving the magazine beyond just print.

The Web site “functioned for too long as just a marketing arm for the print magazine, rather than publication in its own right,” said James Bennet, the editor in chief. For years, he said, “it was a very small number of people, working very hard, who kept it alive.”

Craig Stoltz gives some additional perspective to the move.

The Atlantic’s policy, while not entirely uncommon, is so dunderheaded it’s hard to know where to start.

* People who subscribe to the print edition don’t need to read the stories online–so they essentially receive nothing of value for their patronage.
* Potential new readers are punished and insulted when they go to read an article and get stopped by the dead-tree police. Subscribe or pay $2.95 to read any further, pal. You got a problem with that?

This kind of policy begins when someone in a corner office sputters, “But we can’t give it away for free, we’ll erode our subscriber base!” and turns into reality when others in the room lacking the courage or brains to explain why this is a terrible way to treat high quality content these days.