2005 The message of the year – “It’s the content – stupid”

I knew there was a reason why I worked for a government organisation.. from tomorrow I’m on holiday for two weeks – time to catch up on some reading, DVD’s and to try out building a ruby on rails application !! Preparing for the holidays got me in a reflective mood looking back over the …

Galileo Hype

Adena at All Points Blog points out the rather exaggerated reports in the UK computing press about the upcoming lanuch of Giove-A a micro-satellite developed in Guildford. Rather than be used my mobile phone users to locate cinema listings !!! Giove-A has just one important job to do.. Giove (Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element)-A is designed …

Google Earth for the Mac

Appleinsider report that the Mac OS X port of Google Earth is on the way.. Seems to be a straight port of the windows version, although the claims made by Appleinsider that the imagery will be improved, must be false.

The Wikipedia Wars – what does it mean for geodata?

You may have picked up on the debate bouncing around the net on the problems Wikipedia is suffering. Wikipedia, for those back from the desert island is the community based encyclopaedia that has been seen as one of the great success stories of the web. The problems which hit the news last week have focused …