In preparation for tomorrow's TEDxOilSpill meet-up in Cambridge UK, let me highlight two among the many, many postings on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill (I also wrote about here and here).
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Sunday 27 June 2010
Saturday 26 June 2010
The power of context...
... can be seen in a simple weekend exercise: look up your favourite area on your handy 3D online maps, and you just might get a slew of features, some of it unwanted...
Wednesday 23 June 2010
bp oil rupture, Part II
Here the latest from bp itself at the current NOC show in London.
Monday 21 June 2010
Presentations and social networks
I posted and saw posted a trio of presentations, so perhaps it's time I related them to you.
Thursday 17 June 2010
bp oil rupture
News swirling around the incident in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) compels me to draw out some salient facts and gather them here to help the uninitiated (I did this yesterday for my in-laws). This blog title is from the last slide of the video in my last blogpost.
Tuesday 15 June 2010
The Big Easy button
Building geoinfo from the ground up is patent in this Gov2.0 presentation on citizen-focussed geoweb at the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center toward sustainability in the Big Easy:
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Friday 11 June 2010
The drummer and the dancer
[Update: thanks for the corrected FEMA NIMS web link below from Atlantic Training, who provide "online emergency planning training course [that is ] inexpensive and has helped thousands of businesses train their employees".]
Drums closing the FIFA World Cup kick-off celebration brought back my African drumming days in N Texas and S California:
Drums closing the FIFA World Cup kick-off celebration brought back my African drumming days in N Texas and S California:
Wednesday 9 June 2010
The stunning beauty of maps, Part II
The beauty of maps is topical not only thanks to British Library's show Maginificent Maps. Gary Gale waxed rhapsodic on map as art, and Thierry Gregorius mused on what a map might look like after visiting the same exhibit.
Monday 7 June 2010
Trending oilelefant.com, Part II
Recent web hit statisitics show the power of press releases (PR) in Oilvoice and FindingPetroleum (née Digital Energy Journal) to push traffic to oilelefant.com. The occasion was the new release of a secure trial area - try before you buy - to show on the internet what it will look like on the intranet.
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