An interesting blurb today in Directions Magazine. It had asked readers:

Final results of the current poll (85 respondents) show that even mapophiles prefer a text front page for news. The poll asked, “How often do you use mapping interfaces to the news, such as Google Earth's new layer of New York Times stories or MetaCarta's GeoSearch News?” 

Significance?  We're not sure, but it might help comprehension if there were more thumbnail maps “printed” with many stories.