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Blogger now not so FTP-friendly

I know probably none of you really care, but in March Google will be discontinuing their FTP support of Blogger, the weblog platform we use to post our thoughts here.

This means that at some point we'll be unable to continue this blog as it is now. The good news is that our content management system is basically one big blogging tool itself, so we'll just use that instead. All the current posts will be archived here, forever. So there's still time to make some really inane comments that your descendants can laugh at in coming eons.

By the way, if anyone can point us to a good migration tool that will take Blogger-generated posts and push them into a Joomla CMS, let us know. That way our archives won't look like they are stuck in 1990.

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8.17.2009

We really wanted 867-5309, but it wasn't available.

We've got a new phone number, courtesy of Google Voice. The old one still works, but this one follows us EVERYWHERE:

Feel free to try it out at 303.351.1717.

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12.29.2008

Leveraging the netizens to edit for you

Change.gov is making government even easier to get involved in. Not only are they providing webcasts of the president-elect, and videos and statements from key personnell, but they are also soliciting questions from everyone, and asking site visitors to rate others' questions. The ones with the most votes get answered in the new year.

Go check it out, and rate some questions yourself.

The tool uses Google Moderator to parse the data. Also worth checking out.

Labels: google, information graphics, interface, nonprofits, politics

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4.22.2008

Google Mashup of the week: Real-time voting results

It's been six weeks since I had my political junkie fix, so I waited eagerly tonight for the Pennsylvania Primary results to come in. Thanks to the folks at google, however, I could review voting stats in real-time, with the results keyed to a map. I've embedded the widget below for you to try out. The county-by-county graphs are handy for comparing various demographics, as well, and (if not for the odd color choices used in the graphs) are a nice addition.

Check it out:

Labels: cartography, google, information graphics

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4.01.2008

Information equals power: Zimbabwe

Mapping the election conditions in Zimbabwe is Sokwanele. Their post from March 11th has been built upon and added to and contains on-the-ground reports of voter coercion, vote buying, political abductions, voter unrest, and other symptoms of a very tense situation surrounding the elections in Zimbabwe. It's today's best use of GoogleMaps, and a nice bit of information delivery.

I think it's obvious what this sort of information can do for people who want to make a difference. The more detailed your level of information is, the better you can right wrongs, address challenges, and make informed policy decisions.

Two things that would make it better: less-detailed iconography and hyperlinks to the specific events that are detailed in the map. (via boingboing.net)

Labels: cartography, google, information graphics

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3.29.2008

Best Use of GoogleMaps for today

A BBC article touting the European Space Agency's automated cargo transport carrier system, named "Jules Verne", has--buried way down at the bottom of the article--has a map of where the International Space Station and the Jules Verne are over the Earth at any given moment, updated each second. Pretty nifty. The source for the map is here. So, want to know if you can see the ISS over your house? Check out the map and see!

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