Adam uses Google's Street View to illustrate a post on last night's fire in South Boston. (I lived for about a year in the building at 309 Emerson, after it was a hotel and before it became condos. It was there that I survived the blizzard of 78. But I digress.)

Where they're available, every online news site should have these interactive location images embedded in their stories. But of course they won't. They're still grappling with external links. This is just another way for non-adaptive newspapers to become obsolete.

Here's how to embed those drag-able images from Google, courtesy of a (surprise!) real estate site.