Some good news from the UK Autumn Statement on the Economy, Great to see the Open Data Institute – Tim and Nigel bring their startup to Shoreditch ! And some real logic breaking the potential Public Data Corporation into Customer and supplier orgnaisations, The Data Strategy Board and the Public Data Group. Public sector data …
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There is a long way to go, just ask your kids what they think of ICT teaching.. In the meantime to get your younger family members into programming I recommend "Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids" by Warren & Carter Sande The teaching of computer science needs to be reformed to make it more relevant …
We solved our shortage of space for our engineers in London by building a starship in geostationary orbit over the UK. Turned out to be cheaper than central London office rents… Beam me up Boris!
Happy Thanksgiving! Here's a fun video based on Google StreetView from my friend +Elise Urbanek:http://flowingdata.com/2011/11/24/touching-google-streetview-stop-motion/
Aaron's cincemasapes are beautiful artistic workings of original Street View images.. very atmospheric donkey confronts a google street car in mexico. cinemascapes – Google Street View Edition in search of enchanted and remote lands typically only reserved for the eyes of it's inhabitants, but now …
Once again the Google SketchUp team are running a Competition for 3D modellers to build a model of their local neighbourhood. It’s not necessary to add every building of course but do as many as you can to represent what makes your local town or neighbourhood special. From past experience the real driving motivation here …
The UK launch of Google Earth Builder at the Science Museum.
Google is supporting the EU Hackathon in November and is offering travel expenses to selected individuals ! The deadline to apply is October 17, and the Hackathon takes place November 8th and 9th, at the European Parliament in Brussels. Applicants must be citizens or residents of the EU. All expenses will be covered for selected …
This is a interesting article from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists which discusses the use of GPS to monitor Nuclear weapons testing. It appears that even underground weapons testing causes major atmospheric disruptions which result in GPS timing and hence location errors. Initial results from analysis of North Korea’s second alleged nuclear test in 2009 produced not only seismic waves as expected, but created an atmospheric shockwave …
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