The IDC has just released a report (PDF) that says the amount of digital data we’ve collected exceeds the amount of space we have to hold it all. Right now, we collect nearly 45GB per person. That’s an amazing amount of data. The expectation is that by 2011, we’ll only be able to store half [...]
Our reader Ed found another gem in Kardi Teknomo’s Tutorials Dr. Teknomo is a research fellow at Human Centered Mobility Technologies at Arsenal Research, Austria. He has an amazing research and publication background in GIS, statistical modelling and simulation, and other topics too numerous to mention. To share some of his amazing knowledge, he has [...]
The Vatican has released a new set of mortal sins, one of which includes polluting the environment. Mortal sins, for those not aware of Catholic dogma, are sins which get you a “go directly to hell” card unless you repent. The new batch of sins have a more social aspect to them, including becoming obscenely [...]
Just a quick reminder that the 2008 Where 2.0 Early Bird Registration ends on March 23. The Early Bird discount is $300, plus you can save an extra 15% with our coupon code (whr08vsp). Also check out the great discount for students. While I seem to ramble on about how folks should attend and participate [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 138 March 9, 2008 Main Topic: Mladen Stojic of Leica Geosystems Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
The roadmap for 9.2 that we had seen previously showed SP 1-4 and an early ’08 release for 9.3. As we know 9.3 has been pushed back to Q3 (probably around the time of the UC) but keeping with their plan for quarterly service packs and updates ESRI announced that SP5 will be released later [...]
Not according to a study conducted at the University of California-Santa Barbara and reported recently in the Wall Street Journal. The prevailing wisdom of Daylight Savings Time is that having more time in the afternoon with sun means we’ll leave the lights off longer. That might be true, but it also happens to mean we [...]
Was it just back in October that I was pondering how long it would take Apple to introduce Core Location to provide developers a simple hook into location information for new apps, much like Core Image and Core Audio. While Core Location isn’t coming to the laptop yet, it is going to be available through [...]
I am feverishly working to get my dissertation proposal finished, and while reading Hamlet on the Holodeck (a great book, by the way), I jumped online to look a couple of things up and stumbled across the Atlas of Early Printing. It’s project done by the University of Iowa’s Libraries, and offers a nice Flash-based [...]
Not only did I jump on Facebook, but I also took the Twitter plunge. Now I want to find folks to follow. I, of course, would like a hint of spatial discussion, but I am willing to follow others who are just rambling as well, comment with your twitter feed or email me the details. [...]
