Confluences: GeoProject USA and Google Maps
Confluences: GeoProject USA and Google Maps
This morning I read in the Boston Globe about Google’s decision to allow developers to plug customized data into Google maps, basically legitizing what hackers were already doing (“Google points way to Maps’ code”). They’ve made their API info available at http://www.google.com/apis/When I ran across the GeoProject USA, I noticed they had already put together…
Longfellow Epitaph
17 There is no Death! What seems so is transition; 18 This life of mortal breath 19 Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 20 Whose portal we call Death. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Resignation” (1886-1991)On a gravestone in Mt. Auburn Cemetery
The Quint House Goes Wireless
Tonight I’m sitting on the porch enjoying the warm summer breeze while working online for the first time–thanks to the wireless network I finally set up last night. I just never bothered to set one up, since our wired network has served us just fine, but now that my third floor room has reached oven-like…
Computers and Writing 2005, Stanford
Since Wednesday I’ve been in Palo Alto at the Computers and Writing 2005 conference, and tomorrow I’ll be heading back to Boston. The conference has been good–I feel like I got what I came for–but now I’m ready to get back to Boston and finish this rather taxing trip. On Friday night we had a…
Rodin’s “Spirit of Eternal Repose
Spirit of Eternal Repose (c. 1898) by Auguste Rodin, in the Stanford Cantor Rodin Garden
CIWIC 2005: Wrapping Up
Well, the last two weeks are now a blur of class time, lab time, and socializing at various sites around the Keweenaw. The immersion experience has kept me from doing much blogging, and now I have to hit the road so that I can get back to Minneapolis before too late. Perhaps I’ll have a…
CIWIC 2005: Getting Started
For the next two weeks, I’m up at the Computers in Writing Intensive Classrooms program at Michigan Tech. We’ve hit the ground running the last couple of days, and I already feel like I’ve learned quite a bit. In the New Media workshop I’m in, we’ve been discussing the nature of visual arguments, and our…