A few days ago, I listened to an interesting piece on National Public Radio about “Google mashups” - fun projects that combine Google’s mapping technology with feeds or GPS data or something completely off-the-wall.
One of the examples given was dartmaps - the Dublin Area Rapid Transit systems live-time system maps. Annie from Going Underground [...]
Map Fun
January 18th, 2006 · No Comments · Blogs Wot I Read
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Marketplace in China
January 18th, 2006 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses
I’ve really been enjoying National Pulbic Radio’s Marketplace from American Public Media show this week - they’re broadcasting live from Chongqing, China. Not only that, but all the music is performed by Chinese musicians. And there’s photos of the musicians on a Flickr set! In fact, their Flickr page is packed with interesting photos.
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Obama: Point Man
January 18th, 2006 · No Comments · Politics, Schmolitics
The Chicago Tribune | The Swamp blog reports that Sen. Barack Obama’s new task is to be the “face” guy for the Democratic Party’s ethics and reform initiative. I’m pretty happy about this (actually I’m very happy about this) because I think Obama is the best choice for this job, and also because of his [...]
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