That ain’t no workshop post-it
Originally uploaded by schickr.
The lines don’t invite doodleing, but long text tracts. I’ve been ignoring them, natch.
Waiting for it to start
Waiting for it to start
Originally uploaded by schickr.
Why doesn’t NASA go crowdsourcing?
I was listening to Ira Flatow interview a guy from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter team. The guy said they were getting a tera-byte of info a week, more than they can handle.
Why don’t they just put that all in the public domain, let some hackers create a great interface, and let people ‘roam’ the data sets and start making their own discoveries.
Astronomy already gets a huge boost from ‘amatuers’. Why can’t NASA?
Link: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: Home:
NASA Orbiter Provides Insights About Mars Water and Climate
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is examining several features on Mars that address the role of water at different times in Martian history
links for 2007-10-02
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Nokia and NAVTEQ today announced a definitive agreement for Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ. Under the terms of the agreement, Nokia will pay $78 in cash for each share of NAVTEQ including outstanding options for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $8.1
links for 2007-09-30
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“Some blogs I’m loving for their loose, associative wanderings through their worlds” [via sippey via kottke]
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“It sounds like science fiction but it’s true: An amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die.”
links for 2007-09-29
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Jryi points out that Web-heads have woken to the real power of the mobile device – the phoonebook.
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Thanks, Jyri, for the link. It’s something for all of us building stuff to keep in mind.
Filtering the noise on Twitter
Just heard about a new feature in Twitter that lets you ignore the noise and get alerted to the signal, albeit a signal you choose.
In my ramble on noise, this is the kind of thing I was thinking about, but this is the current digital version of it, whereby you still need to specify the filter, so nothing new there.
Alas, the signal comes in the usual form – a Twitter message. I wonder how that could come a different way.
Also, if everyone understood that their Twitter streams were being watched, how long before folks modified how they ‘tagged’ their twits to be caught by these filters (ugh, maybe even causing signal spam)?
It’d be interesting to get some stats on this after a while.
Link: [hat tip, alexdc] Twitter Blog: Tracking Twitter:
You can create as many of these as you want, so send “track drinking tea”, “track iphone”, “track walking san francisco” and you’ll receive matches for all. Want to get a list of what you’re currently tracking? Send “track” alone (or “stats”). Turn them all off by sending “track off”.
This hole has gotten much bigger
This hole has gotten much bigger
Originally uploaded by schickr.
Awesome mushrooms
Awesome mushrooms
Originally uploaded by schickr.