http://www.kdrmedia.com/blog Serving up snippets of grub for the mind wallaby Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:06:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No time to check this out in detail yet, but the blurb is interesting… geoTract.com provides a central commonplace to share experiences and interests in the form of maps mashed with chatting, blogs, friends lists, favorites lists, and general locations. On geoTract users have the ability to open their opinions on ... http://www.kdrmedia.com/blog/index.php/2006/08/08/geotractcom-looks-promising/ Readers of this blog will understand my interest in all things “geo”. Until recently this has mainly been theoretical and an interesting personal journey of understanding. Well theory will get you through the winter months, but practice is required when the sun is shining. So after bolting my GPS unit (Magellan ... http://www.kdrmedia.com/blog/index.php/2006/07/08/using-a-gps-from-theory-to-practice/ A quick look at my blogmap (on the right hand sidebar) revealed that my location is somewhere in the sea, oops. It never used to look like that, so what changed? It seems that Chandu Thota (the creator of Blogmap) has updated it again. Well actually the company he works for, ... http://www.kdrmedia.com/blog/index.php/2006/06/21/isle-of-man-street-level-mapping-at-last/ First there was Blog and Ping. What was initially a legitimate method for informing blog indexes (such as Technorati) of new content, was rapidly morphed into an automated and dubious technique used by some internet marketers to drive their websites up the Search Engine page rankings. And this worked (for ... http://www.kdrmedia.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/31/are-we-due-another-splog-explosion/ Using this little utility from clustrmap you can add a small image to your website that shows where your visitors are from. I’ve only added it to this particular post for now, but it’s easy to add to the main page of your website. Registration is free (for low bandwidth users) ... http://www.kdrmedia.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/31/geolocation-display-where-your-website-visitors-are-from/ The British Computer Society just announced the creation of a Specialist Group for all things Geospatial. The increasing ability to integrate geospatial technology into a wide range of IT systems, and the increasing visibility of it to business and the public, makes this an appropriate time to form a specialist group ... http://www.kdrmedia.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/17/the-bcs-start-a-geospatial-specialist-group/ It has often irritated me to see the contrast between the American and British approaches to geographical data. So much American data is free. So much British data is very expensive and it’s usage severely restricted by license in some way. So it’s great to see resources like Openstreetmap and ... http://www.kdrmedia.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/04/free-postcodes/ New scientist has this old article about MyLifeBits, a piece of software designed so that you can record your life. You can store conversations, emails, video, etc. A google style indexing system gives you the ability to search back through your life archive. Since 2002 when the article was written, ... http://www.kdrmedia.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/22/recording-your-life/ via Techkwondo, who points out this amazing art installation by Seyed Alavi This must be quite alarming to walk on! Imagine the effect of too many Gin &Tonic’s plus Jetlag, then you get to walk over this. Stunning. http://www.kdrmedia.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/21/and-now-geo-carpet/ Got this in my email the other day, nice one. http://www.kdrmedia.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/16/happy-easter/