GPS Perspectives

I made a few quick ref­er­ences to the mode by which I trans­fer my long and lat data to Google Earth for route dis­play. I was asked whether I was cap­tur­ing alti­tude inform­a­tion along with 2D pos­i­tion and the answer to this is yes. In fact, there are a vari­ety of inter­est­ing ways of visualising …

Techno Coolness

We all know I love my gad­gets. As I blogged earlier in the week one of the first things I picked up on arrival was a new dis­pos­able cell phone. I chose a little Sony Eric­sson 530i from <a href=“http://three.ie” target=_blank”>3.ie because it allowed unlim­ited Skype usage. I have been blown away by how well …

Noise in the Bloggosphere

As I read through my RSS feeds in Google Reader today, I was once again struck by the increas­ing num­ber of famil­iar head­lines. By this I don’t mean sim­ilar themes con­tinue to be explored (although true — Hil­ary is clearly a bad, bad, bad woman and John McCain throws kit­tens into wells), but rather that …

Nance on the Bull as Star Athlete

Susan Nance, pro­fessor of US his­tory at the Uni­ver­sity of Guelph, presen­ted a fas­cin­at­ing paper “A Star is Born to Buck: On the Devel­op­ment of Rodeo Bulls in the 1990s” at the Rural His­tory Roundtable today. Although Nance’s past work has touched on top­ics such as tour­ism under the Otto­man Empire and reli­gious parades in …

Asking the Bigger Question

In my con­tinu­ing effort to dir­ect you away from my blog, I am com­pelled to note Bill Turkel’s follow-up to a post I ref­er­enced last week. In this one he pon­ders our con­scious cre­ation of “islands of stasis” and why an ana­chron­istic mode of research prac­tise per­sists. More import­antly his ‘punch­line’ refers briefly to how …

Fuzzy Slippers, Chrome, Steel and Coffee

My apo­lo­gies if this soun­ded like I was chal­len­ging Jared Dia­mond to a wor­doff ;-)   <a href=“http://idlebritishcolumbian.blogspot.com/ target=“_blank”>Michele just poin­ted me to won­der­fully can­did art­icle explain­ing why office work­ers should appre­ci­ate their sur­round­ings and pity the poor fools that con­sider the cof­fee shop their work­place. While I num­ber amongst those blighted souls and blogged last …

Digital Nomadacity

The con­sist­ently thought-provoking Chris Brogan explores how cur­rent digital tools provide for greater free­dom in employ­ment and life in gen­eral. Chris makes some pres­ci­ent refer­rals to tech­no­lo­gies and pon­ders why one should focus on being more mobile or con­sider being more nomadic. His post explores the equa­tion from the per­spect­ive of the nomad. I wonder …

The Changing Camera Market by Flickr

I just happened to take a quick peek at the cam­era stats at Flickr today. I had uploaded and explored this data on ManyEyes a years or so ago and per­haps not sur­pris­ingly noted that Canon dom­in­ated the point-and-shoot mar­ket and that Nikon and Canon were bat­tling for dom­in­ance in the DSLR market…all accord­ing to …