BusWatch is an Android app that shows real-time transit arrival times on your bluetooth phone. Maybe it's cold and you have your gloves on. Maybe you're puttering around the house and want to keep an eye on the bus without keeping your phone out. Maybe you're walking to the bus and want to know if you should hurry or stroll. It's often super handy to have bus times right there on your wrist.

To use BusWatch, you will need the Android app "OpenWatch" available free in the Android Market.

Andrew is starting an interesting project to research mobile search / marketing / metrics. Looking forwards to following along.

Django middleware + decorator for deciding whether requests are coming from a "mobile phone (cellphone), PDA, or other device that should be considered small screened, or have an underpowered browser, such as games consoles."

A friend was able to read+edit my test instance of this wiki-engine from planet Blackberry.

Don Norman's brain wave: "the return to command line interfaces." Mostly a ponderous recapitulation of John Gruber's 2004 "The Location Field Is the New Command Line" but from a desktop-centric perspective.

Testing out a mobile service that lets you run a poll, notify groups of events, etc. Two quibbles: the service is chatty (it sent exactly one more message than needed) and the poll selection "B)" turned into a ghastly smiley on my phone.

"Every Monday is Mobile Monday. Here's an opportunity to organize it using whatever tools are at our disposal. Is it a Twitter breakfast? a Plazes coffee? a Dodgeball beer? Pick your favorite mobile social software and self-organize appropriately."

"Remember Strider, in Lord of the Rings? They didn't call him Sneaker or Sprinter or Sworder, though he possessed these skills in abundance ... Not only could he could outpace his enemies, by his walking reconnaissance, he came to outknow them."

"You need to convince yourself that walking is not some last ditch compromise shadow exercise, but that it's profoundly ass kickingly exciting. That's where urban ranger comes in."

The original urban ranger essay/manifesto. "The question should be 'when shouldn't I walk?' Walking is the default activity. It's everything else that needs a justification."

"40 people with disabilities use mobile phones to photograph every obstacle they come across on the city's streets. By means of multimedia messages they create a map of inaccessible Barcelona on the internet."

"A mobile user interface pattern library wiki originating from Chapter 6 of Designing the Mobile User Experience, John Wiley & Sons, 2007."

This + gradient surplus CSS = Hiveminder widget?

"Almost every Gallaudet student has a BlackBerry, Sidekick or other handheld. The students say the technology has brought them more equality and has opened up the world."

"Now you can do a Plazes search from your phone. Where is the next Coffeeshop with free Wifi within 2km? No problem with the new Plazer!"

Lou Glazer's take on a "flat" / post-industrial / whatever Michigan economy.

"Welcome to the final Carnival of the Mobilists of 2005, where we feature the very best online writing about mobile."