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F.C.C.’s Google Case Leaves Unanswered Questions | NYTimes.com
The FCC has issued an interim report on Google's wifi data capture as part of the Street View project. There's some good stuff in here about the different reactions of the US regulators and various European bodies (including, inevitably, a German prosecutor).
google  google/streetview  data  wifi  surveillance  privacy  germany  fcc 
5 weeks ago by blech
Time and Place. Foundations for a new blog. | Ben Ward
"In extracting these buried fields and denormalising them into my post files I was able to think—as a purist—about how posts should be represented online. Especially for my circumstances. I have opinions, y'see." Timezones, pagination, and flow. Good stuff.
place  time  timezone  data  metadata  blogging  aesthetics  design  information  twitter/capture  via:@BenWard 
8 weeks ago by blech
Eben Moglen Legit Yells at Me for Having Facebook | Betabeat
"The data is a privacy issue because we have an enormous ecological disaster created by badly-designed social media now being used by people to control and exploit human beings in all sorts of ways." "The thing you’re working on is simply one of 100,000 implications of that disaster."
facebook  privacy  journalism  ethics  data  personalinformatics  banking  from instapaper
february 2012 by blech
The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg | NYTimes.com
"This is the dilemma of being a cyborg: It’s not just that everything we once committed to memory we now store externally on devices that crash or become obsolete or are rendered temporarily inaccessible due to lack of coverage. And it’s not that we spend a lot of time storing, organizing, pruning and maintaining our access to it all. It’s that we’re collectively engaged in a mass conversion of what we used to call, variously, records, accounts, entries, archives, registers, collections, keepsakes, catalogs, testimonies and memories into, simply, data." "Losing data is not the same as forgetting. It happens all at once, not gradually or imperceptibly, so it feels less like an unburdening than like a mugging."
nytimes  cyborg  data  phone  computing  memory  history  from instapaper
january 2012 by blech
Dencity | Fathom
"What does seven billion look like? Dencity is a map of global population density as the world reaches this important milestone."
map  data  design  cartography  population  poster  tobuy? 
november 2011 by blech
Supreme Court To Hear HIV-Positive Pilot's Privacy Case | NPR
"The joint operation, dubbed Operation Safe Pilot, fed in the names of 45,000 pilots in Northern California, cross-referenced them with the names of those who got any Social Security benefits, and came up with some 3,200 violators." Apparently this is probably but not certainly illegal in the US. I assume the UK's Data Protection Act would forbid this, but I'm not sure. One to watch.
privacy  database  politics  medicine  information  data  npr  crossreferencing 
november 2011 by blech
bookmarks for blech | pinboard
I've finally given up on Delicious. Until (unless?) the network returns, I'm seeing more on Pinboard, so I may as well save things there. It's not ideal - I feed Instapaper starred items in and they don't get the same level of metadata as they should - but it's better than this.
pinboard  bookmarks  migration  data  me  from delicious
october 2011 by blech
Where the F**k Was I? (A Book) | booktwo.org
"I made another book: an atlas written by robots." James Bridle, being wonderful again.
book  maps  location  data  tracking  iphone  from delicious
june 2011 by blech
Data Protection: Betrayed by our own data | Zeit Online
"Malte Spitz from the German Green party decided to publish his own data collected from August 2009 to February 2010. However, to even access the information, he had to file a suit against telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom." "Each of the [35 thousand] rows of the spreadsheet represents an instance when Spitz’s mobile phone transferred information over a half-year period."  "Taken together, they provide what investigators call a profile – a clear picture of a person’s habits and preferences, and indeed, of his or her life." Naturally, it's a German politician - and a Green - who's pushing the envelope on this. (Would any American dare? Or care?)
data  internet  privacy  maps  location  from delicious
march 2011 by blech
new ways to see and communicate | Bloom
The obligatory link to the new thing by Ben Cerveny, Tom Carden and more. Originally I didn't notice there was more stuff further down the page, so do scroll down.
data  design  infographics  visualisation  html5  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
When Should I Visit? - Made by Dan W
madebywilliams: Wrote up When Should I Visit?, my hack from @culturehackday at http://iamdanw.com/made/whenshouldivisit/
museum  tourism  infographics  foursquare  data  visualisation  time  from instapaper
february 2011 by blech
The Library of Congress and Twitter | The American Prospect
"How much will it cost?" "Well, it's a gift; we didn't pay for it. But it will be the cost of storing what is, right now, around 5 terabytes, and the staff effort of maybe one full-time person over the years."
twitter  archive  library  libraryofcongress  data  privacy  via:@danbri  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
Home-grown and Delicious | Adactio: Journal
"The Delicious API makes it quite easy to post links so I’ve added that into my own bookmarking code. Whenever I post a link here, it will also show up on my Delicious account. If you’re subscribed to my Delicious links, you should notice no change whatsoever." When both Les Orchard and Jeremy Keith are saying something similar, I listen.
delicious  yahoo  api  data  personalarchive  syndication  re:adactio  via:straup  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
*leaks | Michelle Kasprzak
"the club that I co-founded here in Amsterdam is having a Christmas party entitled “Karlssonleaks”. Guests who bring a USB stick with their choice of interesting liberated or leaked data to hang on our Christmas tree will get into our party for free. Non-leakers have to pay an entrance fee of 10 Euro." White Elephant / Secret Santa for digital folk. I like it.
wikileaks  data  party  sharing  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Working on the Knight Moves | stamen design
"We've started from a baseline that's really straightforward, tackling the simplest part: getting dots on maps, without legacy code or any baggage. Just that, to start. Dots on maps." Upload a spreadsheet, get a map sheet (and a location hierarchy - and linkable page - for every dot). Nice work.
stamen  dotspotting  data  mapping  geo  openstreetmap  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Momento Is Perhaps The Perfect Passive Diary App
A TC article (sorry) about an app I've been using for ages, which seems to have a second wind with its new version. This from the introductory paragraph is interesting: "It transforms [Foursquare] from a 'where you are' app, into a 'where you were' log. In a way, it’s sort of like a diary. I wish Twitter was better at this idea as well." Momento does that job, given sites generally don't.
momento  personalarchive  archive  data  via:stml  from delicious
november 2010 by blech
Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook | danah boyd
"It was better to keep everything clean and in the moment. If it’s relevant now, it belongs on Facebook, but the old stuff is no longer relevant so it doesn’t belong on Facebook." Interesting, and arguably something that the design of the service itself encourages: if old stuff is inaccessible, why not explicitly delete it? (Personally I want date-accessible archives. Perhaps that's a sign I'm old and weird.)
facebook  data  archive  privacy  research  danahboyd  via:rodbegbie  from delicious
november 2010 by blech
Does TfL really want to open up its data? | Wired UK
"Does TfL actually want to be open? Is the organisation just doing what it's told, or is it genuinely committed to making data available to third party developers?" Interesting coverage here (including the apparently unauthorised release, then withdrawl, of the MyTfL app).
london  tfl  data  opendata  iphone  apps  wireduk  via:iamdanw  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Google Sky brings users live astronomy | CNET News
"Slooh will now provide data that will allow anyone using Google Sky to view a new map layer showing thousands of user-taken photographs of deep space, as well as to access imagery from observatories of eclipses and other significant celestial events."
astronomy  google/sky  data  realtime  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
that's how the light gets in | this is aaronland
"What happens to a person's experience of prettymaps when the echoes of their own life start to make up the map itself? What happens when the only streets on a map are those you and your friends have traveled? At Flickr we made a few tiny attempts to tackle the problem of slippy-maps and historical tilesets and I get a little misty-eyed and weepy when I think about what we could have done if we'd had tools like TileStache and Polymaps at hand."
maps  personalinformatics  history  data  slippymap  via:infovore  re:straup  from delicious
september 2010 by blech
Fun exploring EXIF data with Tableau! | Taraji Blue
"Woke up this morning to a tweet from Vanya Tucherov about extracting the EXIF data from photographs and plugging into the information visualisation software Tableau. Worth a try! An hour later, we had the following charts up on the web, currently just using a sample of 450 photos."
exif  visualisation  data  tableau  chart  graph  bibble  from delicious
september 2010 by blech
A map for every day | Phil Gyford’s website
"Eighteen months ago I wrote about redesigning my site’s front page and mentioned in passing that I’d also created a page for every day which aggregated many things. I’ve now taken this a step further and added a map for every day which aggregates various pieces of location-based information about me." I've been thinking about doing this, but Phil actually has. Interesting musings about privacy in there, too.
philgyford  map  archive  location  history  data  maps  personalinformatics  from delicious
september 2010 by blech
The truth about London cycle hire | Telegraph Blogs
"Londoners who use Boris Johnson’s cycle hire scheme are 9 to 6 commuters, midday errand runners and fair-weather cyclists who take the tube or bus when it’s a bit cold and wet. How do I know? I’ve seen the data." Although: "I dont think it's a huge stretch of the imagination to say that rain and cold days means less cycling. That's an anecdote and not statistically significant, but this is a blog post based on five day's data, not a scientific paper."
london  cycling  weather  data  visualisation  graph  re:tomtaylor  via:teflon  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
inadvertent information sharing | I Can Stalk U
Fetching EXIF data from Twitpic to find the locations of Twitter users, even if they have geolocation turned off. This raises a few questions for me, such as "why don't Twitpic strip (or hide) EXIF". (Personally, I do use Twitter geolocation (although this seems to be rare: most people seem wary of it, for some reason), so if I posted via Twitpic I'd rather they offered to set the metadata from the EXIF location.) I note the site's been there since at least May, so perhaps nobody cares that much.
twitpic  twitter  geolocation  privacy  exif  data  location  via:kevan  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
Archipelago | URBAGRAM
"In these maps, activity on the Foursquare network is aggregated onto a grid of ‘walkable’ cells (each one 400×400 meters in size) represented by dots. The size of each dot corresponds to the level of activity in that cell. By this process we can see social centers emerge in each city." "we can show how Paris contains a much more contiguously walkable structure than both New York and London." Interesting (and pretty) stuff.
foursquare  data  visualisation  maps  cities  urbanism  nightlife  via:blackbeltjones  alsopostedon:ffffound  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
An appreciation of MySociety’s MapIt service | Unlock
"I will confess to mild chagrin, because as well as having all these wonderful properties, MapIt does almost everything that Unlock Places does for Boundary-Line and Code-Point."
maps  geography  uk  data  geowanking  review  mapit  mysociety  via:zool  from delicious
july 2010 by blech
Mapping points and postcodes to areas | mySociety
"I’m very pleased to announce that mySociety’s upgraded point and postcode lookup service, MaPit, is public and available to all. It can tell you about administrative areas, such as councils, Welsh Assembly constituencies, or civil parishes, by various different lookups including name, point, or postcode."
maps  data  uk  geography  geowanking  service  mysociety  from delicious
july 2010 by blech
clipper futures | tecznotes
"[MTC have] begun to provide free personal monitoring services to users of Clipper. It's now possible to access to a complete, up-to-the-minute stream of your own card usage (including the geographic location of each beep)". This for Oyster, please. The Bay Area may be slow to start but they're getting that bit right early.
sanfrancisco  bayarea  transport  informatics  data  ubicomp  information  rfid  oyster  via:iamdanw  via:antimega  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
woe db
"The woedb is a searchable and linkable index of every single Where On Earth (WOE) ID published. The data is derived from the Creative Commons licensed Yahoo! GeoPlanet data dumps. A page for every WOE ID!" Aaron is being embarrassingly amazing again.
woe  data  geo  geowanking  maps  heirarchy  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
Visualizing Your Life on Twitter, IM, Delicious, and Blogger | Grafitter
"Grafitter is a personal informatics tool for collecting and exploring information about your habits and patterns." While it recommends using a funky hashtag format for recording feelings and food, it works without that too; it's fairly interesting, too. It'd be even nicer if it supported more things.
graffiter  visualisation  data  analysis  socialnetwork  personalinformatics  via:deusx  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
London Tube Flows | Oliver G O'Brien
Transport for London's Underground station entrance and exit numbers plotted onto a map. I'm not sure why this is concentrating on differences rather than pure numbers, but it's interesting.
london  map  visualisation  tube  tfl  data  via:diamondgeezer  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
Immediate sharing | Paul Hagon
An interesting analysis of upload lag for the Sydney dust storm. I wonder if you'd get different results for, say, Glastonbury, or the Thames tunnel walks? (Now there's a todo. Oops.)
flickr  data  api  analysis  mobile  time  via:straup 
march 2010 by blech
National Public Transport Access Nodes | data.gov.uk
"NaPTAN is a GB national system for uniquely identifying all the points of access to public transport in GB. It is a core component of the GB national transport information infrastructure and is used by a number of other UK standards and information systems. Every GB station, coach terminus, airport, ferry terminal, bus stop, etc., is allocated at least one identifier."
uk  data  government  transport  bus  railway  data.gov.uk 
march 2010 by blech
Reportage - The challengers to London’s black cabs | FT.com
On Addison Lee, and minicabs vs taxis. Unfortunately, not enough's made of this introductory piece about GPS data: "The data track the movements of Addison Lee’s [London] cars during a three-year period [and has been used to] create a grid-like model that predicts how long a given journey should take at different times of the day." Still, interesting stuff.
london  taxi  transport  data  gps  maps  via:iamdanw 
march 2010 by blech
Vox Importer | WordPress.com
I'm a month late to this, but it could be useful. I still have two years of stuff on blech.vox.com but a lot of it needs to be migrated to something I have more control of. This importer claims to do comments and can be password-protected; it might be very handy.
vox  wordpress  blogging  migration  data  fuckthecloud 
february 2010 by blech
Secret papers 30-year rule reduced to 20 | BBC News
"The 30-year rule for publishing secret government papers is to be reduced to 20 years ... phased in over 10 years by doubling the amount of old records released each year".
bbc  news  government  information  politics  history  data 
february 2010 by blech
the hose drawer | tecznotes
"Aaron was up here, carefully seeing to the smooth operation of the engine driving the Twitter collection process for the duration." "The consumption and moderation system we have developed was christened 'Hose Drawer' by Aaron." "This ability to reach in a meddle with the guts, place yourself on a calm island in the middle of the stream, rewind the tape and alter the flow, is the next type of control we're experimenting with."
stamen  twitter  hose  ec2  flow  data  datamining  streams  via:infovore 
february 2010 by blech
Geo API Explorer: Earth | Flickr
Tom Taylor's Boundaries, but for parents/children, on steroids, and on Flickr itself - in other words, a nice UI to explore the Flickr/WOE places hierarchy and shapes data via a pointy-clicky website. This is good.
flickr  geo  places  boundaries  data  explorer  ui  browser  via:kellan 
january 2010 by blech
Mapping the Sites of Con Ed’s Stray Voltage | NYTimes.com
On exposed live cables (or "stray voltage") in New York. "Since the start of 2008, only about eight shocks per month have been recorded, down from almost 24 a month in 2004, according to the foundation’s Web site. The number of electrified objects has risen steadily, to more than 900 per month this year, the data show." America is a bit broken.
nytimes  data  electricity  energy  via:antimega 
november 2009 by blech
POES Auroral Activity | NOAA
candace and I would repeatedly reload this in Iceland to figure out if it was worth going out to look at aurora. Very useful, even if it is basically just bumping along doing nothing for the moment.
aurora  astronomy  satellite  data  web  us 
november 2009 by blech
Real-time Activity (Crooktree) | AuroraWatch
Raw UK magnetic data, for use in predicting (and alerting for) auroras.
aurora  astronomy  data  web  uk 
november 2009 by blech
Memory and forgetting in the digital age | New Scientist
Yadin Dudai reviews two books, one by the LifeBits team promoting never forgetting, and a counterpoint that suggests remembering everything might not be a good thing. Worth a read.
newscientist  data  memory  remembering  technology  philosophy 
october 2009 by blech
Interesting 2009 - a set | Flickr
Jessica Bigarel's slides from her Meta Meta Data Data presentation at Interesting this year. It's led to me putting some things in Daytum that previously would have gone unrecorded.
data  visualisation  daytum  presentation  interesting2009 
september 2009 by blech
Better bus information on the way | TfL
"Mobile and web information should be available by the beginning of 2011, and the roll out of new Countdown signs will begin a few months later." Seems annoyingly slow.
london  transport  tfl  information  data  travel  buses 
september 2009 by blech
Temporal Correlation for Words in Tweets | Neoformix
Breakfast is remarkably diffuse. More people than I'd expect are up at 2am (and mainly saying "lol"). Kellan's note on his bookmark: "it takes most of the day to get bored".
twitter  infographics  timeline  data  via:kellan  via:tomc 
august 2009 by blech
dft-road-traffic-counts | CKAN
"Validated traffic count data. Counts taken at road sites across GB, each lasting 12 hours on a weekday between March and October outside of school holiday periods. The counts take place on one day of the year so are not representative of the typical flow throughout the year." Coo. (As mentioned at OpenTech.)
uk  government  traffic  motoring  cars  data  via:tomtaylor 
july 2009 by blech
I'm being chased by a bubblegum machine!! | this is aaronland
"There is also the question of when and why a tag evolves in to being a first class data type and whether that’s actually reflected in how people use tags. Dates are one example, and geotags another. Each are uniquely indexed in the Flickr database and, still, people continue to add both as tags on their photos. The short answer, of course, is that it’s usually just easier to type 2008 or 2009 than to try and remember a specialized syntax for doing searches."
flickr  tagging  tags  data  metadata  people  usability 
july 2009 by blech
Tube performance | Transport for London
Station entrance and exit figures for all London Underground stations from 2004 to 2008, broken down into weekday time slices and the two weekend days. I should ask TfL for deep historic versions of this.
london  tube  underground  transport  railways  data 
july 2009 by blech
Station Usage Notes | Office of Rail Regulation
PDF containing a list of caveats for the data the Guardian has published. "The usage information is based on ticket sales in the financial year 2002/03 and covers all National Rail stations. It does not include those stations that are owned by TfL. ... The ticketing system does not record certain journeys made using TfL bought travelcards, TfL Freedom Passes, staff travel passes. ... Care should be taken when using the usage figures for stations within Travelcard zones. Where possible, journeys in such areas are allocated to a particular such based on modelled assumptions."
guardian  railways  transport  data  figures  caveats  pdf  via:antimega 
july 2009 by blech
How busy is your train station? | guardian.co.uk
"This dataset, from the Office of Rail Regulation show exactly how many people use every railway station in the UK. And how it's changed since the previous year. The figures are based on ticket sales and they show entries (when someone gets on a train) and exits (when they get off)." Well, not *exactly* (see the two following links, in particular the PDF of caveats).
guardian  railways  transport  data  figures 
july 2009 by blech
Machine tag browsing | Adactio: Journal
A nice way of displaying machine tags, including reclaiming HTML tables (and with a nod to the Flickr machine tag browser; thanks). I'm not sure if I could make this work for the Flickr version; there are possibly too many namespaces. Still, maybe I'll try for the most popular ones.
tags  machinetags  ui  html  css  development  huffduffer  data  via:straup  via:jerakeen 
may 2009 by blech
Your national on-line library for local history | Vision of Britain
Via Diamond Geezer, who plotted the populaton of Tower Hamlets over time. This promises to be a worrying rabbit-hole.
uk  history  data  london  demographics 
may 2009 by blech
London Undersound & Oyster Challenge | Dan W
"The data is imported from Oyster via a greasemonkey script that runs when you log into your online TFL account." Which is great, except that Oyster card holders who don't use auto-top-up pre-pay get "Journey history displays records for journeys taken using pay as you go credit." when they look at the Oyster pages. Still, nice hacks for those who do have data.
london  tfl  oyster  hack  data  visualisation  transport  tube  personalinformatics  blogcomment 
may 2009 by blech
Warcraft guild achievements as RSS | jerakeen.org
Tom Insam writes up, in amusing fashion, how he scrapes the World of Warcraft site to extract the achievements of his guild into an RSS feed. For example: "they return an XML document with an XSL stylesheet referenced in the header that transforms the XML into a web page. Why are they doing this? It must be a huge amount of work compared to just serving HTML, I don’t get it. Let’s ignore that."
worldofwarcraft  achievements  games  programming  python  data  scripting  feeds 
february 2009 by blech
playful utility | russell davies
Ah, Drop 7. I was meaning to write a post extolling its virtues, but I think I played a few games of it instead...
games  data  utility  information 
february 2009 by blech
Bringing OpenID and OAuth Together | Google Data APIs
'Google now supports the "Hybrid Protocol", combining OpenID federated login together with OAuth access authorization.' Looks like this might end up with a usable, open competitor to Facebook Connect.
google  oauth  openid  authentication  identity  authorisation  data  api  security 
january 2009 by blech
Fuck The Cloud | ASCII by Jason Scott
A reasonable rant on not trusting data to websites. I like Les Orchard's comment, though: "I’ve also been thinking that this is the year that I write self-hosted replacements or archiving proxies between me and all the cloud services I use." I don't care for replacements, but a local proxy (what I've been calling 'deep aggregation'): hell yes. One day...
data  cloud  social  aggregation 
january 2009 by blech
Handy data resources about the United States | Guardian
Fantastic- the stuff that was available at the Guardian hack day is now more generally out there.
guardian  google  spreadsheet  data  politics  statistics  via:hublicious 
january 2009 by blech
Mapping: Infrastructure and flow | My heart's in Accra
"To build accurate maps, you can’t simply plot the location of an airport once - you’ve got to map each plane that flies during some period of time. Things that don’t stay put aren’t always happy about being mapped."
maps  visualisation  transport  data  ubicomp  via:straup 
december 2008 by blech
On A Bus | Hublog
This was really great, before NPTDR forced it down. Of course, TfL pimp their travel tools on their site with lovely pretty iPhone icons, but when someone else does anything that's actually useful on the web, or for a mobile device, and which doesn't rely on crap Java servers with dodgy session tracking, and where all the information isn't spat out in PDFs, then licence trauma ensues. Bastards. TfL run the bus routes. The people who get the data from them should be as open as possible.
london  transport  tfl  data  buses  map  rant 
december 2008 by blech
Data Vault | NRAO
"The NRAO Data Vault is a web-accessible collection of NRAO science data from the GBT, VLA and VLBA, which aims to provide convenient access to browse and download data products that have related keywords which match a free-text (Google-like) search query."
nrao  science  data  openaccess  astronomy  telescope  radiotelescope  via:quantumcandace 
november 2008 by blech
You Know What I Did Last Summer? | Frumination
Shock news just in: the North London Line is pretty busy and fairly unreliable. Who knew? Seriously, though, this is good stuff, although it's a bit odd that I find out things about my nearest rail line from someone in the US...
london  transport  oyster  data  overground  rail  via:migurski 
november 2008 by blech
Nokia Map Loader for Mac | Nokia
Ah, handy. I've been having trouble with the PC map loader; maybe this will be happier. (Edit: it wasn't. Maybe the N73 isn't supported any more?)
nokia  maps  n73  mobile  data  macosx  application  via:antimega 
october 2008 by blech
Average Conditions - London | BBC - Weather Centre
On average, August is the second-wettest month of the year, behind November. Driest? March and April tie.
london  weather  climate  bbc  history  data 
august 2008 by blech
UK iPhone availability | Apple
A JSON feed for UK Apple Store 3G iPhone availability.
uk  apple  iPhone  data 
july 2008 by blech
White - Spectrum | BBC Two
A visualisation of comments to a BBC News Have Your Say debate on whether white people are ignored. The comments are sadly their usual incoherent mess, but it's pretty. Hurrah for Helvetica.
bbc  news  visualisation  graphics  data  comment  haveyoursay 
march 2008 by blech
Contacts Data API | Google Code
No more scraping GMail, and AuthSub too, so no more flinging around username/password pairs either. Now hopefully everyone else will have to follow suit. Can you add contacts, though? (Edit) Yes, the blog post says "create".
google  addressbook  contacts  api  atom  data  via:mattb 
march 2008 by blech
NSSDC - Master Catalog | NASA
Todo: scrape this into a calendar, then send emails fifty years after launches (so I can look up pictures and post them to ffffound). Mind you, I'm not sure if they'll all be photogenic.
nasa  data  satellite  space 
march 2008 by blech
Revealing Paris Through Velib' Data | 7.5th Floor
A nice video showing the amount of the Velib rental bicycles at each of the stations for a single day in February 2008.
paris  bicycle  transport  google  google/earth  visualisation  video  data  youtube  via:cityofsound 
march 2008 by blech
Service Update RSS Feed | Transport for London
RSS feeds for service updates, across modes, with per-line resolution. Can someone hook this up to tubevictoria and friends on twitter please?
london  tfl  transport  tube  rss  data  api 
february 2008 by blech
Implications of Google Transit in the UK | Tim Howgego
A long piece (which I've only skimread) looking at the reasons why Google Transit feeds might not be forthcoming from UK public transport providers, despite the fact the data should all be there.
london  transport  google  data  api  tfl 
february 2008 by blech
Schedules, Open Format | BART
"Throw away your screen scraper: BART has official schedules, fares and other data in the open Google Transit™ Feed Specification (GTFS)." Great news for those in SF.
transport  sanfrancisco  data  database  google  api 
february 2008 by blech
Overcoming data friction | Jon Udell
On screen scraping. "So somebody got paid to write software to turn the database into web pages, and now you’re getting paid to write software that turns those web pages back into a database?" Shame about the (tiny) MS plug, maybe.
web  semanticweb  development  python  comment  database  data  api 
february 2008 by blech
Ordnance Survey and Google on Virtual London
"Despite the best of our efforts we have been informed by Google and the Ordnance Survey that our Virtual London model will not be appearing in Google Earth due to data licensing issues." They're pretty clear the blame lies with the OS too.
london  google  maps  architecture  visualisation  data  geowanking  copyright 
august 2007 by blech
oakland crime maps VI: public, indexed data (tecznotes)
"Both Flickr and Twitter make it somewhat difficult to move through giant lists [while] the databases quietly running these services are wildly denormalized and indexed like crazy, making it possible to generate these lists" Have to read this properly.
database  semanticweb  data  design  web  comment  toread  via:mattb 
may 2007 by blech
Google Trends: ps3,wii,"xbox 360"
Why hadn't Google Trends updated since mid November? How am I meant to get a slightly bogus sense of which console is "winning" without dubious search engine statistics?
google  data  graph  games  nintendo  sony  microsoft 
march 2007 by blech
Google Analytics
Urchin rebranded (just like Keyhole vanished when Google Earth launched)
data  google  web  evil 
november 2005 by blech
BBC Backstage :: Feeds & APIs :: 7 Day Listing Data
Apparently the format is a bit wacky; looks a lot like an RDBMS dump. Ho hum.
bbc  media  radio  xml  data  tv 
july 2005 by blech

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