There is a standard called GeoRSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoRSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoRSS), but I had a hard time finding news feeds that actua

There is a standard called GeoRSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoRSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoRSS), but I had a hard time finding news feeds that actually contain geolocation information :( This said, the wikipedia page has an interesting example that may make a good demo: the USGS realtime, worldwide earthquake list for the past 7 days (with magnitudes).