Ask away!!
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November 17, 2009 • 8:24 pm 0
Don’t forget: out front tomorrow!
We’re meeting at exactly 3:30 out front of the 33 E Congress building. If it’s raining we’ll meet just inside the lobby.
We’ll be taking the El to EveryBlock. Be sure you’ve visited the site and thought about a number of good and engaging questions for them. This will be a great visit, made better by your participation!
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November 11, 2009 • 9:11 pm 0
Lecture Links 11-11-09
Mobile Journalism tools in public hands: a debate
We listened to this discussion, between journalist Paul Carr and journalism-thinker Jeff Jarvis.
Guests
Today we heard from guests at BlockChalk and Wikitude.
Questions of Location
Geocoded photos: too far?
A Flickr search for Chicago photos shot by an iPhone 3G
GPS Lat & Long converter
Google Latitude: too soon?
Google Latitude
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November 11, 2009 • 4:47 am 0
UPDATED: For class 11-11-09
We’ll be joined via Skype by Stephen Hood, one of the founders of BlockChalk, a geolocational site that promises to be “the voice of your neighborhood.” BlockChalk takes an innovative, mapless approach to geolocation and will be a great addition to our talk tomorrow. Please familiarize yourself with their site: http://blockchalk.com/
UPDATE: We will also be joined by Philipp Breuss-Schneeweis, the founder of the Wikitude Augmented Reality Browser. Please familiarize yourself with this powerful tool as well: http://www.wikitude.org/
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November 4, 2009 • 9:24 pm 0
Mapping links for today
Today we’ll be doing both mobile reporting and building a database-driven map. We’ll use a few different tools to pull this off. I have linked to all of them, though for this assignment, the heavy lifting of hooking bits and pieces up is done already. This is entirely something you could do yourself for other projects.
These two are the bare minimum to get started (obviously, to do this on your own you’ll need a Google Docs account as well, but we’ll all share a spreadsheet):
Creating a custom map from a Google Spreadsheet
Get lat & long coordinates for addresses.
Then you’ll need a few different things to embed various content into the map:
Drop.io: to collect all the mobile reports, and to embed audio
Photobucket: Free image hosting & editing–to resizing and hosting images
YouTube: For hosting and embedding video.
The Drop.io site that we’ll all share for today’s map is: Drop.io/oneyearlater
The Google Spreadsheet we’ll be working with is here (but you’ve all been invited as editors)
You can see the actual map as it progresses at: j-incubator.net/oneyearlater.html
In addition to our work on the map in class today, continue to add to the data points. You are responsible for reporting and listing 15 additional points by next Wednesday. We should have a *huge* map by then. Go for diversity of location, people, media, and opinions.
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