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Saturday, 28 August 2010

5 Ws for citizens-as-sensors

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Des Kilfoil at the CBC in Calgary, Canada introduced me 20-odd years ago to the 5Ws , the basic tenets of any investigative reporting, from ...
Sunday, 22 August 2010

Anniversary blog

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Even though I registered my blog in September 2005, I started blogging on 18 August 2009, no small thanks to my blog friend Hussein Nasser a...
Monday, 16 August 2010

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

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Time for reflection coming up to the anniversary of reconnecting with my current business partner David Lloyd to help oilelefant to market.
Thursday, 5 August 2010

SAGE: Syndication, AGgregation & Entitlement

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For-free vs. for-fee is an issue that won't go away any time soon. I discussed this here before, and it came up recently with the adopt...
Tuesday, 27 July 2010

Top tips for engaging online communities

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From the Press Association PR & Communications Newlsetter today:
Monday, 26 July 2010

Trending oilelefant.com, Part IV

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Slideshare traffic figures show the same trend as web traffic figures posted before : monthly readership (calculated as total reads over mo...
Friday, 23 July 2010

The power of context, Part V

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The tropical storm threatening the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) oilspill cleanup shows up very well in Google Earth (download GE here ) by simply ...
Saturday, 17 July 2010

The power of context, Part IV

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Two anecdotes on remote sensing and environmental monitoring highlight some issues in measuring and predicting the current Gulf of Mexico oi...
Monday, 12 July 2010

A bit of GIS history

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As I watch ESRI's 2010 User Conference remotely  via social media and my favorite bloggers like spatialsustain and spatiallyadjusted , ...
Thursday, 8 July 2010

The power of context, Part III

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[ Update:  I noted on many of my  Google Fusion Table posts  that, while the data are still on Google Drive for you to view, GFT no longer o...