A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 192 March 22, 2009 Main Topic: How is technology pushing Geography forward with Indy Hurt Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
There are more sessions, and probably people, than ever at the AAG this year. The choices are overwhelming at times, possibly to the point that folks will wander off down the Strip or out to Hoover Dam. BUT…if you are looking for some of the goodness that is neogeography or FOSS related you may want [...]
In case you missed it, we are going to the AAG next week. We will be there in our podcast personas as well as for our day jobs (aka grad students). Here is a list of the papers we will be giving at the conference along with their details in case you were wondering. And [...]
Ars Technica has a nice discussion about nuclear power discussions that took place at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago. The short of it is that several prominate scientists are arguing that nuclear power has a place in our future power needs. Coming from a coal state, I’ve often wondered [...]
MSNBC has a short news special about our town, Morgantown, WV, as a bright spot in the generally glum economic picture here in the US. The video shows a couple of highlights of the local economy and geography, and while we do still have plenty of local issues to deal with, it was nice to [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 191 March 15, 2009 Main Topic: Our conversation about digital cities initiatives Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
At the AAG next Sunday afternoon, March 22 at 3:10pm we will record our live (before an audience) show and everyone is invited to attend. We will be in the North Hall N110 of the Las Vegas Convention Center. We will have some SWAG to give out and of course Frank will be there to [...]
If ever there was a news story that is geography related this is it. A whole village in North Wessex Downs called Linkenholt is for sale for 22.5 million pounds by the Herbert and Peter Blagrave Charitable Trust. According to the Times online property section, the new owner will get a 2,000-acre estate, two blacksmiths, [...]
I found this great comic over at Eviljaymz (though it is an homage to xkcd stylistically) and immediately thought of Frank…and the rest of the geospatial community. Many of these jobs live in the geospatial stack but there are a ton of tasks that we could add to the list like our wait times classifying [...]
According to CNN, floating cities are three years away. They quote a former Google engineer as stating, “Patri Friedman, a former Google engineer who now works for the Seasteading Institute, said floating cities are the perfect places to experiment with new forms of government.” The modules would be like a cross between an oil platform [...]
