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March 8, 2010general, General

I need an app for that

Today at lunch we were kicking around some ideas on connecting various content with other content or to a location in a user friendly way and I couldn’t get past […]
February 23, 2010general, General, GeographyAwareness, Political Geography

Best US Government Blogs

Ran across this interesting post: the best government blogs and why they’re the best. With the exception of NASA, none of these have a direct geospatial tie. In fact, all but one […]
January 13, 2010general, General

MapAction heads to Haiti to help with quake relief

After yesterday’s devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, aid groups and governments from around the world are mobilizing to help out with relief efforts. As Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters […]
January 5, 2010general, General, Physical Geography, WebMapping

Twenty-two maps that will change how you see the world

On my twitter feed this morning, @geoparadigm tweeted this great link on tree hugger about Twenty-Two Maps That Will Change How You See The World. The maps are pretty impressive, […]
October 15, 2009general, General

College Humor gives us a glimpse of the “Google Street View Guys”

I saw this little video tonight and decided to continue my streak of video posts: See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
October 12, 2009general, General

Autodesk interviews an idea

Over at the Autodesk It is Alive in the Lab blog they have a good Monday morning post that looks at what an idea is and how it develops. What […]
September 28, 2009general, General, GeographyAwareness

Google’s Project 10 to the 100 – Vote for your favorite idea!

You may remember Google’s Project 10 to the 100, which invited everyone around the world to submit ideas that “to change the world by helping as many people as possible.” […]
May 12, 2009general, General

WorldGuy Erik Bendl – pushing the World for Diabetes Awareness

I saw the iReport on CNN today about Erik Bendl, AKA ‘World Guy’, who has taken one of his favorite pastimes, pushing his giant inflated Earth Ball around the neighborhood […]
April 7, 2009Education, general, General

YouTube and Library of Congress team up to put early movies online

Although not strictly geography-related, I really wanted to post about the US Library of Congress utilizing YouTube to make digital versions of some of the earliest motion pictures ever recorded […]
March 17, 2009general, General

Our local area gets a little national attention

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 […]