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Open maps of London event: April 14,
London
Open maps of London event: April 14,
London
04/04/2005 06:24 AMCory Doctorow:
The Open Knowledge Forums are a series of lectures and panel
discussions about the ways that "open knowledge" can benefit the
public interest. The next one is a week away, in London, and it's
about a plan to produce a set of public domain maps of London
(London's maps were produced at tax-payer expense, but can't be freely
used; rather, you have to pay the ordinance survey thousands of pounds
for the privilege; by contrast, US government maps are free and
plentiful, and form the basis for thousands and thousand of competing
mapping efforts, from Michelin guides to Google Maps).
There are a number of interesting proposals for this, including
deploying an army of GPS-wielding geohackers, and buying up Russian
satellite photos of London. Check out this squib from last January's NTK:
London's geowanking
fraternity have come up with an intriguing proposition. With a
grand's worth of Russian 1-meter resolution satellite pics,
they believe they can stitch together an entirely free,
redistributable vector database of the capital, freed from
the shackles of the Ordnance Survey's restrictive copyrights,
and thus open to all manner of GPL-style repurposing.
Here are the details:
* When: Thurs April 14th 2005, 7-9pm
* Where: Stanhope Centre, Marble Arch, London. [WWW]Directions
* Who can attend: public. Registration is optional but useful so
please notify us if you can via okforums-info@okfn.org.
* Speakers: Steve Coast of openstreetmap.org; Roger Longhorn (geodata
policy expert); Giles Lane of urbantapestries.net; Jo Walsh of
mappinghacks.com
LinkEcological Footprint
Ecological Footprint
04/19/2004 09:52 PMmyfootprint.org
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"How big Al Qaeda's footprint is in the
US"
"How big Al Qaeda's footprint is in the
US"
08/09/2004 08:37 PMMCI expands Wi-Fi footprint
MCI expands Wi-Fi footprint
12/16/2003 04:12 PMThe carrier announces that it will more than triple its footprint of
Wi-Fi access points through a partnership with Boingo Wireless.
Can iPod stand on its own footprint?
Can iPod stand on its own footprint?
09/18/2004 12:52 PMA recent <A
HREF="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/09/17/cx_ah_0917tente
ch.html">article</A> on Forbes.com about the
Apple/Beatles lawsuit contains an interesting footnote that brings to
light and an more interesting question: Can the iPod name survive
without the Apple brand?
While the reverse is already being tested by Hewlett Packard, it
remains to be see whether any of Apple's products can survive without
their namesake. For all of Apple's unique and unmistakable designs,
what would happen if the Apple was removed from the front of the iMac?
Or the 23-inch Cinema Display? Or the back of the iPod?
Forbes seems to think that a move away from the Apple name and symbol
"would harm its prospects not one bit.
"The iPod brand is turning out to be as powerful a brand name as
that of its corporate parent. By itself, it's also free of any
expensive encumbrances involving musicians who haven't done anything
terribly interesting in the last few years (i.e., The Beatles)."
The iPod name is certainly strong enough to exist on its own, but
would there be any benefit (aside from the Apple/AppleCorps dispute)?
Could Apple create better computers — or better music players
— if the pressure was off to do both under the same moniker?
I'd like to personally think not, and with the unveiling of the latest
iteration of the iMac, it seems that Steve Jobs & Co. can certainly do
both, and do it well, if not borrowing from the other side along the
way. The iPod is as much Apple as it is its own individual namesake,
but splitting the two would likely cause separation anxiety for one
— or even both — parties.
It's not secret that the iPod has brought Apple back to major player
status, and while it may be true that Apple the computer company has
ridden Apple the music company to new heights, they most certainly
need each other to survive.
I mean, just take a look at <A
HREF"www.apple.com">Apple.com</A>…
"Ecological Footprint Quiz"
"Ecological Footprint Quiz"
04/21/2004 03:24 AMCray Expands Its Footprint
Cray Expands Its Footprint
03/08/2004 11:20 PMSupercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc., which currently sells a single
system aimed at the highest echelon of users, is expanding its
footprint with systems for slightly less expensive HPC applications.
Labat footprint grows with SSA
distributorship
Labat footprint grows with SSA
distributorship
11/01/2003 01:56 AMSunday Times South Africa Nov 1 2003 0:24AM ET
BT to double coverage footprint for
broadband SDSL
BT to double coverage footprint for
broadband SDSL
07/06/2004 03:12 AMPublicTechnology.net Jul 6 2004 7:11AM GMT
FireFly 4800 RAID tower: up to 1TB in
9-inch footprint
FireFly 4800 RAID tower: up to 1TB in
9-inch footprint
05/06/2004 02:45 PMDynamic Network Factory has released the FireFly 4800 RAID tower.
Sporting a 9-inch footprint, the FireFly 4800 features USB 2.0 and
FireWire 400/800 connectivity. It stripes data across four IDE drives
simultaneously, and it supports RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 5 and 5+hot spare.
It's compatible with Mac OS 9.x or OS X v.10.x or higher and comes in
320GB, 480GB, 640GB, 800GB and 1TB capacities for US$1,794, $1,957,
$2,046, $2,290 and $1,995, respectively.
GOOD EXPANDS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT; ENTERS
CANADA Adds Financial Services Customer;
Signs First Four Canadian VARs
GOOD EXPANDS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT; ENTERS
CANADA Adds Financial Services Customer;
Signs First Four Canadian VARs
08/18/2004 02:34 AMGood Technology expands internationally, opens a Canadian office.
Adds Financial Services Customer; Signs First Four Canadian VARs
[PRWEB Aug 18, 2004]
THE GLOBAL
FOOTPRINT STRESS INDEX
THE GLOBAL
FOOTPRINT STRESS INDEX
12/19/2004 02:54 PM
Global Footprint Stress
Index: Extreme (purple, >10), High (orange 3-10), Moderate (yellow
1-3), Low (white <1)
Last month I wrote an article
suggesting that a propensity for war-mongering and civil violence,
i.e.
the tendency to take hasty and extreme action rather than a reasoned
and responsible response to a crisis, might be attributable to what
Edward Hall describes as population stress, the adrenaline-driven
aggressive/panic stress response that all creatures exhibit when their
population greatly exceeds sustainable carrying capacity. Hall
explains
that this is nature's 'last resort' method of bringing the population
of the species quickly back into balance with the rest of the
ecosystem, when the species fails to manage its own numbers and when
opportunistic diseases don't do the trick. Earlier I had calculated<
/a>
a simple Population Stress Index (PSI), which was computed by
multiplying density per arable square mile by population growth rate,
and I compared it to an astonishingly similar map by another
blogger, Matthew White, showing violent death rate by country.
As I explained in last month's post, the PSI is an imperfect stress
index. It does not show the very different levels of consumption and
demand on local resources of people in different countries (which has
as much to do with sustainability as population). So I have now
computed a Footprint Stress Index (FSI), plotted on the map above,
which is computed as follows:
- First, I calculated the Resource Use Index
by taking the aggregate Ecological Footprint (EF) of each country in
hectares (the per capita footprint from sources such as the Living Planet Report, times the country's
population), and dividing it by the number of habitable
hectares of land in the country (I used as a proxy for this the lesser
of 80% of total land area and 200% of Oxford's 'arable land area'
data). This very useful number indicates the number of times over each
country's citizens are using the renewable and sustainable resources
available to them. A Resource Use index of 1.0 is sustainable. An
index
of, say, 5, indicates that to restore the country to sustainability,
it
needs to do some combination of reducing population and reducing
per-capita resource consumption, by a combined 80%. The table below
shows some sample Resource Use indices I computed.
- Then I
multiplied this Resource Use Index by the estimated
annual growth rate of the country's aggregate Ecological Footprint.
For
this, I started with the annual population growth rate as a proxy (the
EF studies suggest aggregate footprint and population are growing at
roughly the same rate), and then substituted more precise EF growth
rate numbers when I could find them online (China's EF is growing much
faster than its population, for example).
Resource Use Index: Sample
Countries
80 Japan
60 S.Korea
40 Israel, Palestine
35 Switzerland
25 Netherlands, Belgium, UK
16 Germany
13 Ireland, France, Italy, Venezuela
11 US, Columbia, Chile, Sweden
|
9 China, Philippines
8 Congo
6 World Overall
6 S.Africa, New Zealand
5 Brasil, Iran, Mexico
3 Canada, India, Iraq, Russia
2 Australia, Argentina
1 A few equatorial African nations |
Footprint Stress Index: Sample
Countries
40+ Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia,
Kuwait
30 China
18 Congo
12 Venezuela,
Columbia
10 US
8 Chile
6
India, Netherlands, Belgium, Iraq
4.5 World Overall
|
4.0 Mexico, Iran, UK
3.0 New Zealand, Sweden
2.0 Brasil, Argentina, Japan,
France
1.5 Canada, Australia
1.0 S.Korea, Switzerland
0.5 Germany,
Italy
0.0 S.Africa, Russia
|
The US, China, Congo, Colombia, Venezuela, and several Mid-Eastern
nations all have FSIs in excess of 10. These are all countries
embroiled in war, imperialistic or regional or civil, except for China
where dissent is ruthlessly suppressed. These are the countries that
are suffering enormous anxiety because not only are they consuming
vastly more resources than what they have available domestically,
their
populations or industrial capacities are also growing rapidly, meaning
they will need to find ever more resources outside the country to feed
the soaring need.
Japan, South Korea and most European nations have very high Resource
Use Indices, but because their populations are growing slowly and
because they are mostly very aware of conservation, their EFs are not
increasing. As a result, their FSIs are more moderate. Because they
all
depend so heavily (90% or more) on imports of other countries' natural
resources, however, as these resources get depleted and as exporting
countries realize how cheaply they are giving them away, these
nations'
unsustainable resource demands will not be able to be met, and that
will drive their Footprint Stress Indices way up. Once these
scarcities
become endemic, there will no longer be any option to increase resource use, and at that
point the Resource Use Index itself will become the Footprint Stress
Index.
What will the world be like when dozens of nations, whose economies
are using resources at more than ten
times
the rate they can sustain them from domestic supplies, suddenly find
the price of these supplies quadrupling, or that these supplies are
not
available at any price? Colour all the countries on the left side of
the Resource Use Index table above purple on the map at the top of
this
article and you'll get the idea. We're talking about a world war for
increasingly scarce resources. And all of the countries on the right
side of that table then become invasion targets.
We all know what we have to do. Immediate massive taxes on resources
to
finance the development of technologies that conserve or don't require
natural resources. Shut-down of corporations that waste resources,
that
pollute, and that produce non-essential products. An end to subsidies,
so that we can begin to realize the true cost of our profligate
deficit
spending. The pay-down of government debts to reduce the risk of
economic collapse when interest and inflation rates spike. Incentives
for having no children, or maybe one.
Of course, we have no appetite for these draconian solutions. The
corporatist Frankenstein monster is perpetuating the waste and madness
that is producing this crisis, and they accept no responsibility for
the ultimate Tragedy of the Commons that will hit us with colossal
force once we simply run out of resources to consume to keep
civilization's engine running. The hydrogen economy simply won't occur
fast enough to stave off disaster.
Our best hope is, ironically, that some crisis will shock us into
collective action before the real crunch hits. We learned nothing from
the oil line-ups a generation ago, but perhaps it is not too late. If
the first crisis to hit is manageable, we may be motivated to combine
three massive human efforts: Voluntary negative population growth,
global large-scale conservation, and an unprecedented investment in
innovation and new low-footprint technologies, that could prevent a
social, economic and ecological collapse. We survived a Great
Depression three quarters of a century ago by exactly this type of
huge, collective intervention. That's what we need now. The 'market'
isn't going to fix this mess.
|
In the London Eye
In the London Eye
04/21/2004 01:05 PM Several weeks ago I posted a poll asking where you wanted to see me.
"In the London Eye" received... (86 words)
Getting around London
Getting around London
02/01/2005 09:58 PM
The Transport for London Journey Planner shows you how to
get from anywhere in London to anywhere else by public transport, on
foot or by bike. Fancy a stroll from
Trafalgar
Square to
Big Ben?
Help yourself to a
custom-built PDF route map. If you're travelling by
road, you can use
webca
ms to see exactly what the traffic's like. (But the best
downloadable London maps are still on the BBC web site)
Off to London
Off to London
02/01/2005 09:26 PMI'm leaving for London in a couple of hours. I'll probably be
posting a bit while I'm there as time and connectivity
permit...hopefully some photos as well.
Packing this morning, I came up with a list of the extra stuff that
I need to do before going to the airport now that everyone's a
terrorist until proven innocent** and the major airlines are all about
to go out of business:
- Clip my fingernails. With nail clippers verboten on planes,
you need to do it before you leave.
- Silence my electric
toothbrush. Last time I traveled, my toothbrush turned on in my
luggage and the battery was long dead when I got home. Luckily I can
plug the power cord into the brush to prevent it from turning on, lest
some anxious baggage screener thinks it's a buzzing bomb and/or
illegal sexual device.
- Leave ridiculously early. I am a single
male traveling alone on an American Airlines flight to Heathrow on a
ticket purchased not so long ago...I'm pretty sure that I'm going to
get pulled aside for a "random" screening. My only hope: my summer tan
has faded and I'm white as can be (Non-Terrorist White is the hottest
color for pants at J. Crew this season)...come on, wave whitey
through!
- Wardrobe change. Gotta wear pants that don't require
a belt and shoes that can be slipped on and off with
ease.
- Eat. You may get food on the plane, you may not. With
random screenings come random feedings and I don't like my odds in
either case.
** The Jan/Feb 2005 Atlantic Monthly has a couple of great articles
on terrorism...here's a relevant snippet from Success
Without Victory (subscribers only) by James Fallows:
Screening lines at airports are perhaps the most
familiar reminder of post-9/11 security. They also exemplify what's
wrong with the current approach.
Many of the routines and
demands are silly, eroding rather than building confidence in the
security regime of which they are part. "You can't go through an
airport line without thinking 'This is dumb,'" says Graham Allison,
the author of the recent Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable
Catastrophe, and the director of the Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs, at Harvard, which conducts many projects on
anti-terrorism and security. "You have two people whose job it is to
see if the name on your driver's license is the same as the name on
your ticket -- as if any self-respecting terrorist would fail to think
of that. You have a guy whose job is to shout out a reminder for you
to take off your jacket and get your computer out of your bag. You've
got one-year-olds taking off their shoes. It is hard to think of a way
you could caricature it to make it look sillier." At the same time,
the ritual manages to be intimidating, as a standing reminder of how
much Americans have to fear.
London Booted
London Booted
04/24/2004 10:42 PM
London
Booted - A tribute to the Clash. In the vein of the Grey Album,
here is an album of mash-ups in tribute to
London Calling.
Especially good is the
mix of The Clash's
Spanish Bombs and Outkast's
Bombs over Baghdad.
After reading the background (and hopefully donating to one of the
worthwhile sponsors), get your
download on.
Faces of London
Faces of London
02/05/2005 10:18 PMWithout intending to, I ended up taking photos of a bunch of faces
while I was in London. Here are
some of them:
It's been awhile since I've seriously picked up a camera (not that
I was ever that serious about it) and I'm a little rusty. I'm hoping
to get in lots more practice in the coming months, so the quality
should hopefully improve.
UXnet Comes to London
UXnet Comes to London
12/19/2004 03:55 PMYou’re invited to the first monthly social meeting in London for the
User Experience Design community.
More on London Booted
More on London Booted
04/25/2004 11:07 AMFollowing up on
this BoingBoing post about the bootleg Clash remix project
"London Booted," Will says:
We featured a preview of London Booted in issue-zero of our bootleg
newsletter, which you can find here if you're interested (it's down the bottom in the "Coming
Soon" section). We're also planning a follow up for issue-two (out
29th April) where we'll be talking to the remixers involved and also
they guy who organised the project (only subscribers to the mailing
list will get this issue).
LinkLondon Calling
London Calling
11/11/2003 03:21 PM A nice sit down and a cup of
tea are among many
events
(pdf) planned for GWB's impending visit to the UK. Police are
estimating 100,000 plus demonstrators for his visit, and London's
Mayor says of American requests for an exclusion zone to protect him,
'I
don't think that's got a chance at all'. How does this level of
grass-roots dissent compare to his reception when out and about in the
US?
Back from London
Back from London
02/05/2005 10:18 PMBack from London and up at the ungodly hour of 7:00 AM ET after
getting to bed at 1:30 AM ET, which was the minute I got home from the
airport. Still, six hours of sleep is better than none hours. I'm
going to use the time to get some stuff done...lots of exciting and
dread-inspiring things to do in the next couple of weeks. Trip
pictures are forthcoming; luckily my camera battery lasted the whole
time despite the charger being thousands of miles away and I took lots
of photos.
But quickly, I learned a few additional travel tips on this trip
(to add to the
list):
- Never purchase a US to UK power outlet converter at a
Canadian/Australian ex-pat shop. It will fail to work after a day or
so. I practically had to splash water on it to get a good
connection.
- When going through security at the airport, don't wear a
shirt that depicts a little girl blowing her head off with a gun,
even though her splattered brains turn into butterflies.
- You know that bottle of unopened soda in the bag bouncing on your
hip for the last 1/2 hour? Yeah, that's going to spray everywhere when
you open it, dummy. When I got home, my coat was so sticky that I just
kinda pressed it to the wall to hang it up, no hook needed.
Oh, and I ate kangaroo! Not half bad, but I probably wouldn't go
out of my way to order it again.
London crawling
London crawling
06/05/2005 11:06 PMTomorrow we fly to London to see old friends and new sights, spend
time with family, and speak at a new conference featuring some of the
top names in standards-based design. Last-minute addition: great job
opening at Campbell-Ewald.
"article at This Is London,"
"article at This Is London,"
03/19/2003 10:44 PMBen and Mena come to London
Ben and Mena come to London
07/10/2004 04:58 AMweather presenter .. Tom Coates ..
more
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Ben and Mena come to London...
Ben and Mena come to London...
07/09/2004 03:00 AMSo Ben and Mena and Loic have been in London for
meetings and a few of us managed to get together and hang out with
them for a bit. We've got Ben drinking warm flavoursome beer, Mena
puffing away on cigarettes in pubs and Loic's been trying to run over
small children with his push trolley. We even got to roam around
Television Centre with them a bit today - Mena making a particularly
fetching weather presenter.
Loic took some pictures too:
Read the comments
Wi-Fi from London Streets
Wi-Fi from London Streets
12/20/2003 08:35 PMStreetNet Islington, London
London: Next City of the Sky?
London: Next City of the Sky?
06/29/2004 08:41 PMLondon architects and developers are pushing to remake the city's
profile, much to the chagrin of conservation groups and locals.
Oh, sweet London
Oh, sweet London
12/30/2003 01:24 AMThis city is most certainly a place where it's impossible to get
bored. Yesterday, after an early arrival, we went to see the Lord of
the Rings exhibition at Science Museum, which was very well worth the
rather steep 12£ admission: some of the miniatures are simply
amazing, Sauron and the ringwraiths can scare you witless even if seen
from a distance, but the best part are some of the paintings and
sketches: I felt like any weak-minded creature in front of the Ring as
I let my eyes rest upon the artwork of Sauron overseeing his troops at
the plains of Gorgoroth...
This must be mine - my
precioussss...
Afterwards, we were - completely accidentally - treated to the artwork
of Yann
Arthus-Bertrand, who had an outdoor exhibition of 3x2 meter
photographs outside the Natural History Museum. Go see the stuff this
guy shoots - some of it is quite simply breathtaking. Especially in
large size.
Anyhow, the tournament
looks like it's going to be a good one: plenty of nice people all
around, good location, relaxed schedule... Well, I might still lose
all of my games :)
Unfortunately, I am not able to get GPRS roaming work, so it looks
like no moblogging. I even forgot all of my USB leads home, so I
can't even upload any pictures. Oh well.
The London Screensaver (B&W) 1.0
The London Screensaver (B&W) 1.0
07/07/2004 10:42 PM10 high-resolution photos of London, England in black and white
Goodbye London
Goodbye London
06/09/2004 02:33 AMHad a "lovely" time in London. Goodbye and thanks for all the
chips.
I'm off to Finland today. I'll be giving a talk at the EVA
conference tomorrow.
The Museum of London
The Museum of London
12/07/2003 08:14 AM The Museum of London.
WTF-2 in London this Saturday
WTF-2 in London this Saturday
05/24/2004 04:44 AMThe next WTFCon is in London this Saturday: it's a one-day convention
devoted to hackery subjects.
* An open space gathering and conference of various groups, projects,
people, and organisations active and interested in creating a better
world.
* Action and not just talk. Too many social forums and gatherings
result with little or no outcome. Come and propose and gain support
for actions during Soho Summit, ESF, G8, GDR etc.
* An assembly of gifts and needs: tell everyone what your projects are
all about, what they have to offer, and what they need. Together we
have everything. Let's self-organise and share!
* About working together, many of us have shared principles despite
our diverse goals. No more either or!
Link
(
Thanks, Tav!)
Poverty in London
Poverty in London
06/22/2004 05:04 PM
Charles Booth Online Archive.
Charles Booth's survey of life and labour in London at the end of the
Victorian era, with the famous poverty maps.
Get a job (Boston), get a job (London)
Get a job (Boston), get a job (London)
12/22/2004 01:29 AMWeb jobs, baby.
3D London Tube
3D London Tube
11/15/2003 03:29 PM
These 3D rendered London Tube maps are pretty mind-blowing.
Link
(
via Blackbelt
Jones)
Open AP in Mortlake, London
Open AP in Mortlake, London
10/29/2003 12:10 AMThere's an open access point at the corner of Sheen Lane and North
Worple Way, just opposite the railway station, in Mortlake, south west
London. SSID 'BTVoyager'. I got a strong signal, DHCP lease and
downloaded all of my mail. There's also an access point that can be
picked up about halfway down the eastbound station platform, but I've
never gotten a good enough signal in order to try and log on...
Lessig lecture in London, May 27
Lessig lecture in London, May 27
05/21/2004 06:49 AMLarry Lessig is speaking on London on the 27th of May.
Flash
LinkJames Street, London
James Street, London
12/10/2003 10:24 AMLooks like there's a hottie somewhere on James Street, adjacent to
Selfridges. SSID jre-wireless-4 and numerous Rendezvous contacts
popped up near to the Lamb pub and also nearby the courtyard. Patchy
reception, but good speed - managed to get a handful of audios
downloaded before I got cut.
APs in Greenwich SE10, London
APs in Greenwich SE10, London
03/06/2004 02:02 AMin and around greenwich uni, about 6 (init cnt) APs. will post exact
details later in week (2 mch cors wk) topper
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