Interactive 'sound map' lets you hear New Orleans online - Maria Montoya - Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
About http://www.opensoundneworleans.com . Seen in RAPatton's Friendfeed stream.
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New Bar Codes Can Talk With Your Cellphone - New York Times
Not new, but a good article nonetheless.
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SpotJots
Sort of like Brightkite, looks kind of cool.
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[murmur] - hear you are
A collaborative art project in which specific places are "tagged" with audio messages. You're walking through town and you see a "murmur" sign, you call the appropriate phone number and listen to a story about the spot. Kind of neat
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Google Maps director on "the geoweb"
Google's Maps and Earth teams have a blog. This first post is a kind of quick glimpse into their thinking on maps and location-based computing (call it "the geoweb" or "where 2.0" or "earth browsers" or whatever). Via http://301url.com/9w5
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nowthen: Twitter-like presence stream for your cameraphone
I really like both Twitter and tumblr (twitter.com, tumblr.net). This seems more like Twitter -- a continuously updateable, shareable, social "status stream" that uses images and SMS from your phone. Supports groups.
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Google Earth as a surival tool in Iraq
Google Earth used by ordinary Sunni Baghdadis in Iraq to figure out ways of evading and avoiding Shia militias and Interior Ministry patrols.
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34 NORTH 118 WEST
An art project attaching historical documents and artworks to buildings in one L.A. city block.
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RAND | Documented Briefings | Swarming and the Future of Conflict
From the site: "Swarming is a seemingly amorphous, but deliberately structured ... way to perform military strikes from all directions."
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Information in places - J.C. Spohrer
I haven't read this yet ...
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semacode | URL barcodes | practical ubiquitous computing
The original semacode site.
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