Events

April 21, 2006Events, general

Google Earth and Google Map Hacks theme of upcoming multimedia art display

We-make-money-not-art recently posted about an exhibition that will be part of the upcoming Sonar festival in Barcelona, Spain. Sonar showcases advanced music and multimedia art called Digital Art a la […]
April 20, 2006Events, general

Maker Faire 2006

If you love to tinker with stuff, especially tech stuff, or find yourself strangely fascinated by the MythBusters, then the Maker Faire this weekend (April 22-23) in San Mateo, California […]
April 16, 2006avsp, Events, general

avsp EarthDay Contests

We were sitting there, recording the podcast, the next thing Sue and I knew Frank had thrown out two challenges/contests to see what you are doing for EarthDay! When the […]
April 7, 2006Events, general, WebMapping

MapOFF! panel at SDForum

This month’s SDForum Search SIG, taking place at Yahoo! Headquarters in California on April 11th, is called MapOFF! and will feature panelists Jeremy Kreitler from Yahoo!Maps. Thai Tran from Google […]
April 7, 2006Education, Events, general

National Geographic Bee state winners

The state finals of the National Geographic Bee were completed last Friday, and each state winner will now travel to Washington, DC for the national finals. The winner will receive […]
April 4, 2006Events, general

Good couple of days

As Sue mentioned a couple of days ago, we have spent Monday and Tuesday in DC touring a few geospatial shops with a group of students to show them a […]
April 1, 2006Events, general, WebMapping

Google Earth’s April Fool’s joke

Over on Kevin Jarnot’s blog, I saw a post about an April Fool’s little visitor on Google Earth. Sure enough, I checked it out and Area 51 in New Mexico […]
March 28, 2006Events, general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial), VirtualEnvironments

See a total solar eclipse “live” on your computer

Tomorrow (Wednesday) there will be a total or near-total solar eclipse that will be visible in parts of Europe, Africa, and South America (see this guide from MSNBC). For the […]
March 27, 2006Events, general, VirtualWorlds

First Annual Virtual Globes Scientific Users Conference

We had a session devoted to Virtual Globes at the AAG Annual Meeting, and now there is going to be an entire conference sponsored by research centers at the University […]
March 22, 2006Events, general

International Podcast Expo – April 21-23, 2006

An online only Podcast conference will be taking place April 21-23. Not much is clear so far other than it will cost $11 to “attend”, and presenter and exhibitor details […]