Archive for April 26th, 2007

Read carefully, share widely »

By William M. Hartnett on Apr 26, 2007 in newspapers | 0 Comments

Credit to Mindy McAdams for wading through her reading backlog and finding this gem: Media Convergence: ‘Just Do It’

“Darwin explained that the species that are the best at adapting to change will survive. It won’t necessarily be the biggest news organization (remember the dinosaurs), nor the newspaper that now has the highest circulation or has [...]

Another great hurricane-mapping site »

By William M. Hartnett on Apr 26, 2007 in weather | 0 Comments

You already know about the Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s IbisEye, but have you seen Stormpulse.com? (I found it via the Florida GIS Data blog, which spotted it at GISuser.com.) There’s a Stormpulse blog, too, where the developers are revealed to be “Matt and Brad.” And it says Matt lives in West Palm Beach. Matt, get in touch! [...]

Now I just need a terabyte of data »

By William M. Hartnett on Apr 26, 2007 in geekery | 0 Comments

>Hitachi ships its terabyte drive (CNET)
For $399! Is it insane that my first thought upon reading this was that I need to go out and get a truckload of aerial imagery data to justify buying a terabyte drive? Seems just a little bit backward.

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