Robert M. Pirsig‘s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance at Amazon, a used book store, or your parent’s book shelf. Still, it’s available on the web as PDF, at least two text files — one, two — And even as a podcast (subscribe via iTunes). Lots of people have re-traced the journey described in [...]
July 30, 2007
iPhone Complaints
Cliff and Vasken wrote up some link bait complaining about how the iPhone doesn’t meet their expectations or is a lesser competitor to a crackberry. But I challenge them to find a device that offers what they say is missing or even matches what the iPhone has. Still, I’ve been using mine for a month [...]
July 5, 2007
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May 29, 2007
Street-Level Photos in Google Maps!
Thanks to Ryan Eby for tipping me to this. Go try it out. Whatever you think of them, they do keep delivering. I wonder if people will ask for stack-level photos of our libraries? Google Maps, gmaps, Google, street-level photos
April 11, 2007
Google MyMaps and GeoRSS
O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference isn’t until the end of May, but Google just released two sweet new map-related features: GeoRSS support and MyMaps. The GeoRSS support means that any application that can output it’s geocoding — as simple as <georss:point>45.256 -71.92</georss:point> — can now be linked to a live map with no more effort than [...]
September 28, 2006
Rocking Wirelessly: Verizon’s V640 EVDO Card
After vacillating for a while (and waiting for it to become available), I finally purchased one of the Verizon / Novatel V640 Express Card EVDO adapters that everybody’s talking about for my MacBook Pro.
June 16, 2006
Google Geo News
This post started with Ryan sending me this link demonstrating a KML overlay of county borders of his bifurcated state in Google Maps. Then I found this Roundup of Google’s Geo Developer Day (btw, I so wanted to be at Where 2.0) with tales of the new geocoding feature of the Google Maps API, more [...]
December 13, 2005
A Patron’s Perspective On Library 2.0
My friend Joe Monninger is perhaps a library’s favorite patron. He’s an avid reader who depends on his public library for books and audiobooks and DVDs, and as a writer and professor he depends on the services of the university library. But he doesn’t work in libraries, and though he listens patiently to my work [...]
November 3, 2005
Seattle911
Via the ProgrammableWeb: Seattle911.com. It’s another mashup with Google Maps, but who knew anybody could get 911 data in real time? Sure, it’s only for Seattle, and only their fire/EMS servers (no police), but technology wise, it’s cool. Kudos to Seattle, I guess. What’s my reticence? I don’t know if I should have this data…and [...]
November 16, 2005
NEASIS&T Buy, Hack or Build Followup
I was tempted to speak without slides yesterday, and I must offer my apologies to anybody trying to read them now, as I’m not sure how the slides make sense without the context of my speech. On that point, it’s worth knowing that Lichen did an outstanding job liveblogging the event, despite struggling with a [...]
July 31, 2005
Space Shuttle Tracking (and other good uses of the Google Maps API)
Tom Mangan has put the Google Maps API to interesting use with his space shuttle tracking page. Also worth checking out: his Blackbird Spotting site and TLable, a little extension to make pinning/annotating maps even better. blackbird, google maps, map api, space, space shuttle, spacecraft, sr-71, tom mangan
July 20, 2005
Google Maps Gets All The Attention
It would reasonably appear that here in the US, there’s only one map site: good ol’ Google. But until Google adds maps for countries other than the US, Canada, and UK, the rest of the world will have to look elsewhere. Enter the UK competitor: Multimap.com has been serving the world outside the bubble since [...]
July 1, 2005
Google Maps Rock, The Google Maps API Rocks More
We don’t need to hack Google Maps anymore. Now that Google has released a public maps API, we can make more reliable map-dependent apps (which will now have better browser compatibility, thank you). Within a few minutes of signing up for a maps API key I had put together the following of the Nevada Test [...]
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