HOW TO: Track Hurricane Earl Online

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I really like Stormpulse, but this is a problematic post. The title is editorialized, focusing on a layout feature (Stormpulse gets its own subheading, whereas other sites are clustered by similarity). A layout artifact on mashable.com doesn't mean that Stormpulse is truly considered to be in a category of its own; in fact, I think it easily fits in with the Google Maps mashups, but I don't really care either way.

Tl;dr: I think this title makes sense for an internal company email, but not HN. The article linked, however, is useful, so I'm not flagging this.

Point taken. I'll change the title back, but I just wanted to share the "good news" with fellow HN'ers as I do believe Stormpulse to be in it's own category, and not really just a layout artifact for this blog post.

Not sure why you think we fit under the Google Maps mashup category, when we are not using Google Maps at all.

I mean, they should have called the category "interactive maps" and then it would be fitting. You're not in a category of your own; you are the leader of the category.

Anyways, I meant no offense - I use your site regularly during hurricane season and sincerely enjoy it.

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