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• October 23, 2005Education, General, GIS_Software

  HOPEWORKS ‘N CAMDEN – Expanding the Futures of Youth

  John Krygier pointed us to Hopeworks, a program in Camden, NJ whose mission includes reducing the dropout rate and to create hope for the future. They attempt to do this […]

• October 22, 2005General

  Anyone going to ASA-CSSA-SSSA in SLC

  I will be heading to the Agronomy/Soils/Crop conference in Salt Lake City in a couple of weeks (which means we won’t be going to Applied Geography). I will be putting […]

• October 22, 2005Education

  Newsday.com: Missed class? Try a podcast

  An article on the use of podcasts in the classroom, primarily on their use in schools such as Duke and Perdue to act in support of classroom lectures. Fairly interesting. […]

• October 21, 2005General

  A different kind of “map”

  While not really spatial, I thought Music Plasma was an interesing application for graphically showing relationships for data points. In this case, they’re pulling data from Amazon’s databases to show […]

• October 21, 2005General

  Space Elevator Games

  This weekend, NASA is offering its first Centennial Challenge, with $100,000 up for grabs. Ten teams will compete at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California in events related to space […]

• October 20, 2005Physical Geography

  BBC NEWS | Amazon damage ‘worse than feared’

  The BBC news reports on a study conducted in the Brazilian Amazon by Brazilian and US researchers. While it is limited in details. the article discusses the use of different […]

• October 20, 2005WebMapping

  A Journey to a Thousand Maps – NY Times article on Google Maps mash-ups

  The NY Times online posted a new article on Google Maps mash-ups. For those of you still not really sure about what the Google Maps phenomenon is all about, it’s […]

• October 20, 2005Events

  What are you doing for Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day 2005?

  It’s less than a month until Geography Awareness Week (November 13-19) and GIS Day (November 16). Already, ESRI announced last week that all 6 New England states and New York […]

• October 20, 2005General

  Latest on the Internet control dispute

  A resolution has been introduced in the US Senate to back the Bush administration’s efforts to stop the UN from taking some of the control of the Internet away from […]

• October 20, 2005General, Remote Sensing

  Mapping the Universe

  If you think it’s ambitious to map the entire earth, check out the Sloan Digital Sky Survey According to their website: “the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the most ambitious […]