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Satellite Internet: 15Mbps, no matter where you live

January 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Satellite Internet: 15Mbps, no matter where you live in the US
Jon Brodkin, arstechnica.com

billrdioAmerica is a land of haves and have-nots when it comes to broadband Internet. While many of us enjoy downloads speeds of 50 or even 100 Mbps, 119 million Americans lack broadband access (defined as 4Mbps down and 1Mbps up). Out of those 11…

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Satellite Bandwidth Internet.com Launches New ISP Plans for HughesNet Broadband Satellite Internet Services in California (virtual-strategy.com)
As Internet gets faster, Hong Kong & South Korea lead the broadband speed derby [GigaOM] (gigaom.com)
How Do I Choose the Best Internet Service Provider? (lifehacker.com)
ViaSat snags Guinness World Record for highest capacity satellite (engadget.com)
Average U.S. Connection Speed Now 7.4 Mbps – U.S. Now Eighth Place For Average Connection Speed (dslreports.com)
Battle of Clearwire and how it affects you… (alwaysumptin.wordpress.com)

Decades of temperature change where you live mapped

January 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design, Systems Science

Mean surface temperature change for 1999–2008 relative to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Simon Rogers, guardian.co.uk

How have temperatures changed where you live?

Simon Rogers

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Decades of temperature change where you live mapped

Earth’s Core is Much Hotter Than Scientists Thought (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
Visualization of the Week: Every recorded U.S terror attack 1970-2011 (strata.oreilly.com)
Global February temperatures were ninth highest on record (ncdc.noaa.gov)
Prominent Data Journalist Joins Twitter Flock (socialtimes.com)
Is the weather worse under the Coalition government? Visualised (guardian.co.uk)

New big data firm to pioneer topological data

January 16, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

New big data firm to pioneer topological data analysis
Posted by John Burn-Murdoch, guardian.co.uk

Stanford University project goes commercial following groundbreaking research into cancer therapy and counter-terrorism strategy • More from the Guardian on big data • More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian

A US big data…

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Forget big data, small data is the real revolution (guardian.co.uk)
Doing good with data: why Datakind is launching in the UK (guardian.co.uk)
The End of Judgment? Big-Data Analytics Still Needs People. (plus.google.com)
Big Data: 5 Things To Think About (blogs.sap.com)

A Map Of Every Person In The U.S. And Canada

January 13, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

A Map Of Every Person In The U.S. And Canada
By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com

You can try to find yourself among the 341,817,095 tiny dots on the map.

Here’s a pretty cool interactive map made by Brandon Martin-Anderson showing, according to census data, every single person in the United States and Canada. The …

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Canada thwarts plot to blow up U.S.-Canada rail line (usnews.nbcnews.com)
Canada Sees ‘Serious Reversal’ If U.S. Bars Keystone (blogs.wsj.com)

Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things

January 13, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

In 2011, Berg worked with Google to imagine the service’s manifestation in real life. Here’s the remarkable, working prototype they came up with.

Google is ridiculously powerful. The service isn’t just search. It isn’t just maps. It isn’t j…

RT @PopSci: This is what it would be like if Google wasn’t just in computers, but in the stuff all around us http://flip.it/nxktR Via @fastcodesign http://flip.it/U0IVX

A New Career in a New Town (magicalnihilism.com)
Tweet-Powered Cuckoo Clock – #Flock by Berg Connects to Twitter to Alert Users to Replies and More (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com)
Ransomware: The cybercrime money machine of 2013 (itproportal.com)
Why I’ve Switched from Google Chrome (lockergnome.com)
From Google And Berg, A Superb Concept For Better Video Chatting (fastcodesign.com)
BERG builds a home videophone for Google with the Connbox prototype (theverge.com)
The Virtual Haircut That Could Change the World (wired.com)

Washington, Massachusetts Top TechNet State Broadband Rankings

January 11, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Washington, Massachusetts Top TechNet State Broadband Rankings
John Murrell, allthingsd.com

If the local broadband climate is a major factor in deciding where in the U.S. to settle your family or business, TechNet has some guidance to offer.

The technology advocacy group surveyed the states to compare indicators on…

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Washington state No. 2 in startup jobs (bizjournals.com)
As Internet gets faster, Hong Kong & South Korea lead the broadband speed derby [GigaOM] (gigaom.com)
Comcast’s Arbogast: You’re Confused, U.S. Broadband is Awesome – Contests Numerous Studies Suggesting We’re Utterly Mediocre (dslreports.com)
Boot camps train up software engineers in just weeks (nzherald.co.nz)

The New Places Where America’s Tech Future Is Taking Shape

January 10, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

The New Places Where America’s Tech Future Is Taking Shape
Joel Kotkin, forbes.com

Technology is reshaping the economic geography of the United States, but there’s disagreement as to how. Much of the media and pundits like Richard Florida assert that the tech revolution is bound to be centralized in the dense,…

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Don’t Doubt the Hipster (realclearpolitics.com)

How to never get lost again: apps for travel

December 30, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Road Tripping In The Digital Age
Ryan Lawler, techcrunch.com

I’m just wrapping up a week-long road trip, in which a travel companion and I visited some friends in Southern California. We hit up a few different spots along the way, including San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San…

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Five Essential Items Needed On Any Holiday Road Trip (epicatravel.com)
Five apps for road trips (pitstopsforkids.com)
Road Tripping Across America (allstate.com)
Road Tripping In The Digital Age (techcrunch.com)

Location based culture data app

December 28, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you’re standing in
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

Nicko sez, “Sitegeist is a free Android and iPhone app from the Sunlight Foundation that helps you to learn more about your surroundings in seconds. Sitegeist takes public data about the people, housing, history, environment and thing…

Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you’re standing in – Boing Boing http://flip.it/tQRnP http://flip.it/Fe1ZG

Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you’re standing in (boingboing.net)
Sitegeist: A mobile app that tells you about your data surroundings (flowingdata.com)
iPhone Apps Of The Week: Sitegeist, Flickr, and More (gizmodo.co.uk)
Infographic your world with Sitegeist (tuaw.com)

bOING-bOING-02 (Photo credit: Frauenfelder)

Apps for parking lot survival

December 27, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Get In and Out of Parking Lots Instantly with a Few Simple Tricks
Thorin Klosowski, lifehacker.com

Parking during the holiday rush is never an enjoyable experience. But whether you’re stuck circling around the parking lot looking for a spot, trying to get out of the lot, or just trying to find your car, the combination of a little common sense…

Get In and Out of Parking Lots Instantly with a Few Simple Tricks http://flip.it/B6sWr http://flip.it/KGPVZ

Asphalt-Prone People Photography – Tracy Featherstone Invites Humans to Become Parking Lot Lines (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com)
Walmart Parking Lot Insanity Never Ends (blogs.lawyers.com)

Turn your iPhone into an action cam with Optrix

December 27, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

(via Optrix XD Rugged Case – Apple Store (U.S.))

Boston suspects: Immigrant dream to American nightmare – CNN (cnn.com)
Boston bombings: Social media spirals out of control – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

Best digicams for video

December 24, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

(via The best cameras for shooting video (roundup) | Reviews – Cameras – CNET Reviews)

Photography for Dummies: Part 4. (1hundredworks.wordpress.com)

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