I want tools that let me obfuscate my home address but help me meet up with people in my home town. Google Latitude is not doing it for me I have to say. Fire Eagle seemed much more sophisticated in that regard.
- Cameron Neylon
Exactly Cameron: basically I want it to either grow increasingly inaccurate as I approach home, or deactivate altogether, while still letting me geotag photos and meet people when I'm out and about. Latitude is the easiest to get non-techies on, but no good on the iPhone anyway since there are no background tasks permitted, and without very much location sharing granularity, unlike BrightKite.
- Richard Akerman
thus creating a geotag free zone that surrounds your home ...
- Anna Croft
... and pretty accurately identifies where you live, thus defeating the purpose?
- Bill Hooker
not a geotag (which the iPhone insists should be spelled feorag) free zone, an increasing zone of randomness. so there would still be points in the area near your home, they would just be false. true location shielded by noise, not silence.
- Richard Akerman
from BuddyFeed
FireEagle did some very clever fuzzy logic thing that made it quite difficult to pin down precise location to less than three miles.
- Cameron Neylon
still would have a high probability zone and we could always database match to get your postcode and narrow it down.
- Anna Croft
But you can database match against name and postcode anyway presumably.Its probably futile though. I wonder how easy it is to get e.g. my home address (from the web). Answers on a postcard :-)
- Cameron Neylon
edsu: finally got round to listening to @danbri's presentation Describing Everything http://bit.ly/638AD8 strong case for library data on the web
- Richard Akerman
curmudgeonly review of the Kindle http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news... which features decidedly non-conservative description of the rocker switch
That is, should the library be a "meeting place of the sciences", trying to enable cross-discipline conversations by having science-wide discussions (e.g. a seminar on open science) or should it focus on delivering more traditional services like access and answering reference requests? Is an academic library (made up of) its community, or does it consist only of its contents?
- Richard Akerman
for an exciting few minutes, they activated all the keycard readers & locks, while I was outside my office area and my keycard was inside
DBast: YAY! Mobile GEDS as an Open Data-ish app! This. Is. Awesome. Who made it? RT @ShawnHooper: @DBast GEDS Parser http://bit.ly/KN8Zv
- Richard Akerman
dullhunk: Hallo "Disruptive Technologies Director" @anitawaard from @elsevier. Did you know @gbilder is jealous of your job title :-) #swat4ls2009 - http://twitter.com/dullhun...
dullhunk: Hallo "Disruptive Technologies Director" @anitawaard from @elsevier. Did you know @gbilder is jealous of your job title :-) #swat4ls2009
- Richard Akerman
jenbeal: RT @PD_Smith: book industry should "get over the misconception" that digital publishing more eco-friendly than printing http://bit.ly/22N3nD
- Richard Akerman
it's the 5 year blogiversary of my (still on hiatus) blog