Members of the House of Representatives have accused Google Maps of attempting to obscure the fallout of Hurricane Katrina by posting pre-hurricane images to their satellite imagery site.
Lawmakers investigating this supposed slight claim that it does an “injustice” to Katrina victims, some of whom used the site when it had post-hurricane imagery to see if their […]
The AP reported yesterday that many musicians are coming around to support Net Neutrality. It’s a switch, given that a free Internet was behind the Napster and file-swapping controversies from the mid-1990s — controversies that seriously affected the way the music industry does business. In those days, it was in the best interest of the major record […]
The New York Times reports that art museums are rethinking the ways they classify their online collections. One solution that has worked well for Web 2.0 sites is social tagging. Now, several museums have launched tagging projects that allow the public to associate keywords with works of art, with the goal of making it easier […]
The following letter was printed in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle this past Wednesday. I think it’s funny as hell, given the errors in fact present in it, but it also lacks almost any semblance of logic. It is reprinted here without permission of the Chronicle, so if they have a problem, they need to contact […]
A few bugs during the upgrade to a shiny new version of Wordpress, but after a little troubleshooting, most things have survived the transition. The only thing still not working is the category heat map that used to occupy the sidebar, about halfway down. There have always been problems with the heat map plugins that […]