GeographyAwareness

• August 21, 2007general, General, GeographyAwareness

  Stephen Colbert explores his deep ancestry

  Christine, who works in the research lab down the hall from me, watches The Colbert Report, and told me about a segment on his show featuring Dr. Spencer Wells, head […]

• August 13, 2007general, General, GeographyAwareness

  More Geography Tetris

  Raymond, the creator of the super fun Statris sent me over a couple of emails about some updates he’s done. If you’re not a huge fan of US geography, fear […]

• August 5, 2007General, general, Groups

  Associations/Groups – Association for Downloadable Media

  This is mostly for the geobloggers out there. There is a group of well known podcasters/bloggers who are looking at the need for an association of New Media publishers. They […]

• August 2, 2007general, GeographyAwareness

  Discovery Channel will buy Treehugger.com for $10 million

  In advance of the launch of their Planet Green cable network (set to debut in 2008), Discovery Communications has agreed to pay $10 million US for Treehugger.com, probably the leading […]

• July 28, 2007general, Groups

  Associations/Groups – National Council for Geographic Education

  It has been over a year since I added to our posts about professional organizations for Geographers and geospatial professionals, so I wanted to start up again with an organization […]

• July 23, 2007general, GeographyAwareness

  Fun Flash Game – Statetris!

  It isn’t exactly simple even on easy. Indiana gave me fits – it took me six minutes on the lowest level. See how you can do!

• June 5, 2007general, GeographyAwareness, isde5, Remote Sensing

  Planet Action – geospatial engagement

  This is a great example of what ISDE5 is all about. SPOT Image in conjunction with partners ESRI, Infoterra, and Unesco is presenting Planet Action which is a participatory/educational site […]

• May 31, 2007general, GeographyAwareness

  Spatial learning at Apple’s iTunes U

  Just in time for the summer conference season and long flights, the iTunes 7.2 update has opened iTunes U, their educational portal for audio and video lectures, to the world […]

• May 24, 2007general, GeographyAwareness

  Ben’s Place of the Week – from the OUP blog

  First of all, yes, Oxford University Press does, in fact have a blog, and it’s pretty good. One of the features is Ben’s Place of the Week, where Ben Keene, […]

• April 30, 2007general, GeographyAwareness

  Geospatial Web book coming May 18

  Glenn and TheMap Room are pimping the upcoming book The Geospatial Web: How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society where Sue and I have […]