NEW Release: Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America

is an online mapping tool that captures a broad range of demographic, economic, and agricultural data on rural areas across the United States. It was developd by USDA's Economic Research, providing data sets available for further analysis.

See the atlas at: http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/ruralatlas/

The full press release at: http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome

HyperCities Egypt: New UCLA Project

that updates and archives tweets from protesters in Cairo since the outbreak of the pro-democracy demonstration starting on Jan. 25. 2011. It displays a new tweet every four seconds over a digital map of Egypt's capital--allowing users to explore the layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment. This is a part of the UCLA Center for Digital Humanities program.

Visit http://egypt.hypercities.com .