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January 30, 2008

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If:book points to points to WikipediaVision—an application by László Kozma that maps Wikipedia updates geographically in (very close) to real time.

January 29, 2008

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A student in my graduate course blogging at Famous in My Own Head points to this news release from Lewiston, Maine: A large, mysterious blob has taken over a major sewer line in the city of Lewiston, leaving public works crews stumped as to how to budge it. The best part of the story, however, is [...]

January 27, 2008

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Jonathan Harris’s TED talk from March 2007 discusses three of his recent mapping projects: "We Feel Fine," "Yahoo! Time Capsule" (which will re-open in 2020), and "Universe."     It is interesting viewing this presentation—which is essentially asking if there is universal human identity—after having read Marshall McLuhan’s 1977 interview with Mike McManus (under the chapter heading "Violence [...]

December 8, 2007

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Updated 12/8/07, 9:48am. The New York Times continues its tradition of mapping traumatic spaces in its remediation of the shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska, where Robert A. Hawkins killed eight people with an assault rifle.