Blog Articles
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Street Maps in Political Hues
Excerpt from Street Maps in Political HuesBy TOM McNICHOLhttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/technology/circuits/20dona.html?th Published: May 20, 2004The New York Times “FOR proof that all politics is local, look no further than Fundrace.org, which follows the political money to your front door. While records of campaign contributions have long been available online, Fundrace has a twist: plug in any address…
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GISMO blog
I am working on a new design for the GISMO (NYC area GIS user group) website and am experimenting with adding a blog. Please take a look: http://gismonyc.blogspot.com This blog is hosted on blogspot.com. It is rather featureless at this point, but I think as an example of what a blog would look like for…
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What’s up with Brinkster?
My website is down. Brinkster launched a great new site with new pricing structure. Somehow my files got lost in the mix. Not just my little website but a great big one I was working on for AMNH. I had been having trouble with Brinkster for a while – there were ads on my supposedly…
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Rumsfeld prefers being in Iraq
from today’s Top Stories – AP “Rumsfeld Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq “ Rumsfeld was accompanied by Myers and several lawyers on a trip designed to reassure U.S. troops that the prisoner abuse scandal has not weakened public support for their mission and to get firsthand reports from the most senior commanders. Neither hid his…
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GISMO Meeting July 15, 2006
The next GISMO meeting is tomorrow, May 11th from 12:00pm-2:30pm at the Fund for the City of New York, 121 Sixth Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY. Michael Schill of the NYU Furman (Real Estate) Center will discuss the NY Times 2/6 Exposure of New Web site www.nychanis.com. Anyone interested in geographic information systems software…
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GISMO Meeting Tomorrow
The next GISMO meeting is tomorrow, May 11th from 12:00pm-2:30pm at the Fund for the City of New York, 121 Sixth Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY. Michael Schill of the NYU Furman (Real Estate) Center will discuss the NY Times 2/6 Exposure of New Web site www.nychanis.com. Anyone interested in geographic information systems software…
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Ontologies
Here’s two introductions to ontologies: Ontologies Come of Age Smarter Content Publishing: Creating a Semantic Content Management System(VLombardi)
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IA Research
PMerholz says: I’ve found Kevin Crowston’s work on genres of web communications to be essential in how I’m thinking about IA: http://crowston.syr.edu/papers/index.php
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GIS: upcoming meetings
I just posted a bunch of upcoming meetings to the GISMO website. Additional details are in the GISMO calendar. Events through May: Thursday, April 29, 5:00pm: GGSA Spring Lecture SeriesHunter College, North Building in room 1022, New York, NY“Lost Geographies and Failed Globalization: From Versailles to Iraq”Neil Smith, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center…
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More CMS Tutorials
The new CMS Wiki has a definition of a Content Management System.http://www.cmswiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=ContentManagementSystem. It also has a discussion of the confusing term portal.http://www.cmswiki.com/tiki-editpage.php?page=Portal And something on Workflow.http://www.cmswiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=WorkFlow CMS Review has references to all the great books on Content Managemant. http://www.cmsreview.com/Resources/Books.html.