Yup, we were interviewed back at the 2007 ESRI User Conference as a Special Achievement in GIS recipient and it is up on the ESRI Speaker Series podcast (Feb 5, 08). I haven’t had a chance to listen to it, but I think we talked about the roll of New Media in Geography and geospatial…go [...]
In their journey to get everyone hooked on their dev tools, Microsoft has rolled out DreamSpark, a site where students can download: Visual Studio 2008 Expression Studio Windows Server 2003 XNA Game Studio 2.0 These products are great for folks who are just starting out in development and design. They are free to students on [...]
The melting of Arctic ice, coupled with other factors such as the push to discover more oil reserves to exploit, is spurring new efforts to map the Arctic. A US team recently completed a survey of a huge underwater peninsula, known as the Chukchi Cap, on the northern side of Alaska and found that it [...]
Video from the trip to San Francisco for the Autodesk World Press Days 2008. Click here to download VSTV Episode 29 full size (10 MB) Click here to download VSTV Episode 29 for iPod (4 MB)
Sometimes it helps to look back and see how far we’ve come. The National Geographic has a nice pictorial display of major milestones in space photography. All the famous and not so famous images from space photography collected into a display!
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 135 February 17, 2008 Main Topic: Geography and interdisciplinarity Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
It seems that the cute, cuddly feline who loves all things pink (yes, I am talking about Hello Kitty) has finally gotten together with her friends to create their own MMORPG, HelloKittyOnline. And lest you think that this is not big news – the closed beta was announced on Wednesday (February 13th), and in a [...]
The Woods Hole Research Center has been working on the “National Biomass and Carbon Dataset for the year 2000 (NBCD2000) and have just released datasets from the first nine project mapping zones. All NBCD2000 data products can be downloaded on a zone-by-zone basis from the NBCD2000 project website. The datasets are free, but you do [...]
The New York Times Books section features an interesting discussion about a book entitled, The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby. The thrust of the book is that current American attitudes downplay the importance of education and intellectualism. The interesting part of this is she overwhelmingly uses geographic examples as proof of her thesis. [...]
