Archive for May 22nd, 2007

County must provide parcel data »

>Court rules Santa Clara County must disclose parcel map data (California First Amendment Coalition)
(Via Dan Gillmor)
Big lower-court win for GIS users, open records advocates, journalists, California taxpayers and lovers of common sense. Pretty much every single story or project I’ve done at work in the past two years has relied on parcel-level GIS data [...]

Wise words on blogging journalists »

And I’m not just saying that because my wife’s site is mentioned as an example of what every newspaper reporter should be doing in Scott Karp’s post Every Newspaper Journalist Should Start A Blog. Right on, which is why Kathleen and I are both massively into the Interwebnet.

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Results delay in new Google Analytics »

Not only are the hourly stats still annoyingly missing from the new Google Analytics interface, it appears that the reporting lag time is significantly longer than the three- to six-hour gap in the old version. I’ve gone back to using the old interface exclusively, which is unfortunate because I like the look and organization of [...]

Time to get your storm on »

Ah, another summer in paradise: NOAA predicts above normal 2007 Atlantic hurricane season. And don’t miss the always entertaining hurricane season edition of the Census Bureau’s Facts for Features.

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Hot 787 action for the aviation nerds »

Boeing started final assembly of the largely composite 787 on Monday, which is a totally awesome milestone if, like me, you’re an aviation geek. If, like pretty much everyone else on the planet, you’re not an aviation geek, then final assembly of the 787 isn’t so much a milestone as much as it is yet [...]