Month: February 2006

  • Powell to speak at Intergraph 2006

    Another day, another email announcement.  Intergraph has announced that former Secretary of State and retired Gen. Colin Powell will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Intergraph 2006, their new […]

  • VisitorVille

    As a prelude to our upcoming podcast episode on cybergeography, check out VisitorVille, a web analytics software application that “does not represent website visitors simply as numbers or graphs, but […]

  • Desktop Earth

    At the risk of getting known for fluff pieces, I thought this was pretty cool.  Desktop Earth allows you to generate a desktop wallpaper image up to 1920×1200 in lossless […]

  • SkillsUSA Announces New College Geospatial Competition

    In case any of you aren’t on the ESRI Education email Newsleter, this is an item that of you may be interested in following. From the newsletter: “SkillsUSA has partnered […]

  • Where 2.0 Registration Now Open

    Details on some of the speakers for O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference, which will be held June 13-14 in San Jose, California, are now up on the conference website. Some of […]

  • Geographic Center of Google Maps is….

    …Kristine Crispel’s horse farm outside Coffeyville, Kansas! Ok, it’s a fluff piece, but it’s a cute fluff piece. Via Wired.

  • Podcasting in the Peruvian highlands

    BBCNews reported recently that podcasting is now being used to distribute important agricultural information to Peruvian farmers. The sponsors of the project, a UK charity called Practical Action, have found […]

  • GPS and Driving Doesn’t Mix

    From Engadget. Apparently if you’re in your car and you’re interested in safety, ’tis better to go old school paper maps than these newfangled GPS units! What happens when we […]

  • USGIF announces 2006 scholarship competition

    The US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation is now accepting entries for its 2006 scholarship competition, which will award 14 scholarships totaling $55,000. Current undergraduate and graduate students are eligible, as well […]

  • The Travel Show podcast

    Alan Lew over at the Geography for Travelers podcast recently pointed to the new Travel Show podcast.  This 5 episode old podcast “takes you on a virtual tour of the […]

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