Creating a Mobile-First Responsive Web Design - HTML5 Rocks
A great step-by-step tutorial from Brad on developing a responsive site with a Content First mindset.
Tags: geo
Localgram
I like this simple idea, nicely executed: see Instagram photos taken near you.
ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack - YouTube
Jason’s rip-roaring presentation from Defcon last year.
maps.stamen.com
Beautiful new map tiles from Stamen for use with OpenStreetMap data. The “watercolor” tiles are particularly pretty.
What Goes Up, Doesn’t Have To Come Down
A thoughtful—and beautifully illustrated—piece by Geri on memory and digital preservation, prompted by the shut-down of Gowalla.
Travis Schmeisser: We Used To Build Forts on Vimeo
I loved this talk from Travis at New Adventures in Web Design, especially when he talked of the importance of Geocities and MySpace in democratising creative expression on the web.
We may have later bonded over that Ze Frank quote while in the toilet at the after-party …there may have even been hugs.
Making Of ‘Peugeot - Paperwork’ on Vimeo
Kyle’s paper skills are truly impressive.
We Are Historians | 1sixty
A beautiful reminder that by publishing on the web, we are all historians.
Every color you choose and line of code you write is a reflection of you; not just as a human being in this world, but as a human being in this time and place in human history. Inside each project is a record of the styles and fashions you value, the technological advancements being made in the industry, the tone of your voice, and even the social and economic trends around you.
ExtendNY - New York City Extended
Sheer brilliance: taking the street grid of Manhattan and extending it to cover the entire world. For the record, I live near the intersection of east 11,303rd avenue and 63,475th street.
The Deleted City
This is quite beautiful. An interactive piece that allows you to dig through the ruins of Geocities like an archeologist.
Such wanton destruction! I’ll never forgive those twunts at Yahoo.
Fuckers.
How Responsive Web Design becomes Responsive Web Publishing - AQ » Blog
Some interesting questions (and one or two answers) about how responsive design affects publishing on the web.
#rorschmap
Another beautiful piece of work from James: a kaleidoscope made from Google maps.
See something or say something - a set on Flickr
These lovely visualisations of geotagged photos and tweets are almost indistinguishable from aerial views of cities at night.
Yes! It is possible to cross Dublin without passing a pub
Testing James Joyce: this is like the Seven Bridges of Königsberg puzzle but with Guinness.
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent
A blog devoted to sifting through the gems in the Geocities torrent. This is digital archeology.
BLDGBLOG: Islands at the Speed of Light
Freaky stuff. If you’ve seen Kevin Slavin or James Bridle talking about the increase in property prices on Wall Street as the buildings get closer to the network hub …that’s nothing—these are the new centres of world power; places where the speed of light interferes least with the speed of transactions.
Tell-all telephone | Data Protection | Digital | ZEIT ONLINE
A dataviz demo of creepiness: displaying the movements of Malte Spitz by correlating her phone activity and web usage.
Safety Maps: A Do Project
A handy papernet tool for emergency situations. “Zombie apocalypse” is not, alas, one of the default options.
a world of tweets
A very pretty visualisation of tweets on a map using canvas.
James Bridle on Phare Conference on Vimeo
Everything is worth preserving and protecting.
Link Rot « The Bygone Bureau
Brilliant; just brilliant. Connor O’Brien remains skeptical about the abstract permanence of “the cloud.” The observations are sharp and the tone is spot-on.
If your only photo album is Facebook, ask yourself: since when did a gratis web service ever demonstrate giving a flying fuck about holding onto the past?
The Magical Mystical Ley Line Locator « Tom Scott
This was one of my favourite hacks at History Hack Day: enter a location anywhere in England to find out if it’s located on a ley line of mystical magical energy, man!
41Latitude - Google Maps & Label Readability
An examination into the legibility of labels on online mapping services.
thisisntfuckingdalston.co.uk
A low-tech version of Flickr's shapefiles: stopping people and asking "excuse me, what area is this?"
Time Travel Explorer
Now this is how to do a location-based app: overlays of London through time ...in the palm of your hand.
The Wilderness Downtown
A nifty interactive video for Arcade Fire's "We Used To Wait." It claims to be built in HTML5 but actually uses XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 doctypes throughout. *sigh*
Polymaps
A JavaScript/SVG library for displaying maps in a variety of interesting ways.
BBC - Dimensions - Index
New from BERG: superimposing historical events onto familiar landscapes.
prettymaps
Beautiful map visualisations by Aaron Straup-Cope.
Concerning FourSquare · Ben Ward
A great Fisking by Ben of (very silly, IMHO) morally panicked Guardian article on Foursquare.
Historypin | Home
Old photos placed on a map. Quite engrossing.
Geonames Maps « optional.is/required
Brian documents his beautiful Geonames SVG maps.
MiniApps - HTML5 apps for iPhone, iPad, Android & other mobile platforms
A nice collection of free apps for your mobile device. No app store required, thanks to offline storage.
HTML5 Geolocation with Fallback to Google Ajax API: HTML5
An excellent way to do geolocation even in browser that don't support it natively.
The Landscape of Music
The geography of musicians.
Reocities , rising from the ashes - RIP Geocities...
Here lies what we could salvage from the ashes of GeoCities.
Social Networks Aren't Good Businesses - washingtonpost.com
An interesting take on the business models of social networking sites.
Will my site be archived? Yahoo! GeoCities Help
Archive.org is indexing Geocities sites (as it always has). Yahoo are going to fuck all about their users data/dreams/memories and Yahoo are going to do fuck all about the URLs.
Cartagen
Lovely representation of OpenStreetMap data using canvas.
HTML5 Demos
Courtesy of Remy. Doesn't he ever sleep?
Walking Papers
This is wonderful: maps that travel from the internet to the papernet and back to the internet again. Print out from OpenStreetMap, annotate in the real world, and scan the annotated map.
Tom Taylor : Projects : Clarke
A sweet little Skyhook/FireEagle desktop app from Tom. It updates your FireEagle location every five minutes by pinging Skyhook's API to triangulate your position. A small piece, loosely joining two small pieces.
Where I’m actually living in augmented reality, Jefferson Airplane and what does this mean for photos. « geobloggers
Rev. Dan Catt's augmented reality future is here; it just isn't evenly distributed yet.
Pulse Laser: Here & There influences
Jack Schulze goes into detail on the genesis of the wonderful Here & There map/visualisation.
http://schulzeandwebb.com/hat/
This is the best location visualisation I have ever seen.
Ugly and neglected fragments (Phil Gyford’s website)
Phil Gyford on why he will miss Geocities. "It’s only thanks to the efforts of people like the Internet Archive and Archive Team that we’ll have a record of what people, rather than companies, published in the past. As companies like Yahoo! switch off swathes of our online universe little fragments of our collective history disappear. They might be ugly and neglected fragments of our history but they’re still what got us where we are today."
EagleTweet
Allow your Twitter location to be automatically updated from FireEagle. The process of connecting you, FireEagle, and Twitter is beautiful: 1 x OpenID + 2 x OAuth.
CloudMade - Make Maps Differently
A set of APIs built on top of OpenStreetMap data.
London V2 Rocket Sites...Mapped - Londonist: London News, Food, Arts & Events
Gravity's rainbow on a Google map.
MaxMind - GeoIP Javascript Web Service
A JavaScript API that returns location information based on IP.
SitePoint » 4 Easy-to-Use Microformat Tools to Beef Up Your Site
A rundown of microformat-extracting tools. "Ultimately, microformats are a bit like plumbing. They don’t do very much on their own, but if you make use of the data they provide, you can quickly and easily create useful functionality your visitors …
TURF BOMBING
Turf Bombing is a device-agnostic location-based game. Could be fun. I've already claimed my neighbourhood.
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » The Shape of Alpha
Flickr has amassed tons of geotagging data and Aaron has been playing with it.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Where do you think you are?
BBC coverage of dConstruct on "The widening web of location-based web services."
Who Framed George Lakoff? - ChronicleReview.com
A detailed look at the troubled history of George Lakoff, the father of conceptual metaphor.
THE ORWELL PRIZE
In a similar treatment to the Pepys blog, the diary of George Orwell is being republished as a blog offset by 70 years.
Seero - Steve_McQueen - Bullitt Chase Scene
Watch the best car chase of all time mashed up with a map of San Francisco to create geo-broadcasting. The added context gives an already perfect sequence added zing.
Driven By Boredom 3.0 » Archive » Nascent Sexuality Polaroid Study
Nostalgia and sexual awakening plotted on a Google Map is a voyeuristic thing.
blog.plazes.com » Blog Archive » Plazes adds Fire Eagle Support
A match made in heaven: update your Fire Eagle location from Plazes.
Home of the Geotag Icon Project
An attempt to create a standardised icon for geotagged content, much like the standardised icon for RSS.
George Clooney - Interview with George Clooney - On Career, Sex, and Politics - Esquire
George Clooney watches '2 Girls, 1 Cup': "Clooney puts his hand over his mouth like he's going to throw up. He bolts from his chair and walks out of the room."
Photos taken in Brighton on Flickr!
Flickr Places. This is what George announced at dConstruct. It's enthralling: interestingness mashed up with geotagging.
Get Lat Lon - find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map
A handy tool for grabbing the geocoordinates for a location.
MapMSG.com - Statetris
Very very cool and addictive cross between Tetris and geography knowledge. It took me 19:45 to get all of Europe on a medium setting. That's pathetic.
CSS Training Courses with edgeofmyseat.com
Want to learn CSS kung-fu? Get thee to Maidenhead on October 29th and you can learn from the best: Rachel Andrew and Drew McLellan.
strange maps
This blog devoted entirely to maps is far more interesting than it sounds. It's a treasure trove of weird and wacky stuff. Fascinating... and a complete time sink.
[this is aaronland] Mining for Pynchonite
This is a brilliant idea by Aaron: printing QOOP books of Flickr pics where each picture is accompanied by a map. It's all about the context, baby!
Google Maps API Official Blog: KML and GeoRSS Support Added to the Google Maps API
Google gets behind GeoRSS. This is good. Somewhere, Mikel Maron is doing a little dance.
Marksman Called In To Kill Kingstons Pigeons (from Surrey Comet)
Read the comments for some great pest control ideas.
Mozilla Labs Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing Operator
A microformat detection extension for Firefox 2. This looks more human-friendly than the existing Tails extensions.
MOON RIVER: gentlemen's pocket globes
I want one of these for Christmas.
Twitter / Rev Dan Catt: 10,000,059 geotagged photo,...
Via Reverend Dan Catt on Twitter comes word of over 10,100,000 getagged photos. Mazel tov!
If I dig a very deep hole, where I go to stop?
Find the antipodes of your location. Remember, most of the world is ocean.
Skeptic: The Magazine: Featured Article
A good, if somewhat dispiriting, overview of Artificial Intelligence. (There's some nice typesetting on this page)
plazes.beta
Geo-tagging meets social software. I must check this out and investigate the API.