Social mapping and such
posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 at 1:27 pm MST"feedmap.net: Where Blogs Meet Maps (beta)" is a pretty good example of what works.
Another system came to my attention through twittering and tweets: I had been using TwitterVision for a while before discovering "Atlas". It turns out that if you register there you can then access a variety of map functions, one of them being blogs by geographic location!