Embedded OpenStreetMap
Zoom in to level 12
coordinates:
NW:52.5,-2
SE 52.4,-1.8
iframe width=”600″ height=”600″ (size of display box)
bbox=-17.3,43.1,13.5,60.2 (lat/long of box sides)
Framing bbox with -8.9,47.65,6.1,55.65 centres the map near Oxford at Level 6.
Three items of interest.
1. A book
2. A website from the Obama-Biden transition Project; the
source for the latest news, events, and announcements so that you can follow the setting up of the Obama Administration. And just as this historic campaign was, from the beginning, about you — the transition process will offer you opportunities to participate in redefining our government.
Come back often as we define new programs and possibilities to engage and be part of this administration.
Including something called America Serves:
Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps. Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by setting a goal that all middle school and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year and by developing a plan so that all college students who conduct 100 hours of community service receive a universal and fully refundable tax credit ensuring that the first $4,000 of their college education is completely free. Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time promoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start.
3. TinyGeoCoder
Write a name, like Birmingham UK, and get a lat/long set in response: 52.4829323,-1.8936213. Plug it into a Google map, or a geocode field in your photo sharing service.
Even better, they give you the Google code for a static map grab.
I’ve been experimenting with comment aggregators BackType and CoComment. Each has something I like, and each has apparent shortcomings.
I like BackType because it’s well-presented, has tools for locating and following authors, a nice alerts feature (gigs, and reviews, for example) is easy to set up. But it doesn’t do such a good job of locating and providing feeds. For example, it hasn’t found any of Joanna Geary’s recent comments, even though it links to her website just fine, and it doesn’t find so many of the authors I’ve suggested to it. So I’m not getting much out of BackType. I have been experimenting with CoComment, partly because of a rapid response to a post by Chris Unitt, but finding it also less than satisfactory. It does update more rapidly than BackType, but it also produces spurious updates. Today coComment sent the same ‘update’ notice 9 times between 10:00 and 12:10, even though the conversation hadn’t changed since last Thursday.
I went to the CoComment help forum to ask about it, but found that there’s no way to add a new topic, nor respond to an existing one. Big mystery there. How did other people get their topics and comments listed?
The Help forum looks like this:
There are no ‘Add Topic’ buttons on this page, nor anything else that functions as such.
So how did these existing topics get there?
And in case you’re wondering, there’s nothing in any of the existing topics that allows me to add a reply.
I tried viewing the forums in four other browsers, including Opera and IE. Same thing everywhere. Looks like the coComment forums are busted. So I sent a message to them using their textarea contact form. That was oh, 12 hours ago. Maybe they’ll get back to me in a day or so.
So it’s still a very mixed bag for these two comment aggregators. Think I’ll check out co.mments and BlogFlux’s Commentful.
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These might come in handy if I can ever clarify a couple of conceptual points about cloned drives and how to make them.
5 Free Apps to Clone Your Hard Drive - Download Squad
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with a little JavaScript and a dash of creativity, we can easily make an “animated” jpg.
Doodlebuzz Typographic explorer.Says it all. Except that it’s brilliant fun to try and spell Birmingham, or draw the No. 11 route and see what headlines it gets.
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The first link led me to each of the others - and a commenting system that purports to track my comments, or else track comments across a multitude of blogs, such as those below.
So the point now is to leave a sample comment somewhere and see if BackType picks up on it.
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