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Rob Delaney: On Depression & Getting Help

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:24:18 -0400

Rob Delaney: On Depression & Getting Help:

This was originally posted February 26, 2010.

I deal with suicidal, unipolar depression and I take medication daily to treat it. Over the past seven years, I’ve had two episodes that were severe and during which I thought almost exclusively of suicide. I did not eat much and lost weight during…

Gamification Explained=)

Wed, 16 May 2012 17:27:36 -0400

Always thinking about how to apply to to mapping

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Knight News Challenge: Announcing the next Knight News Challenge: Data

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:42:00 -0400

Knight News Challenge: Announcing the next Knight News Challenge: Data:

newschallenge:

Photo Credit: Flickr user Koen Vereeken

The Knight News Challenge is being offered three times this year, in short, focused rounds to better mirror the pace of innovation. Winners of Round 1, which focused on networks, will be announced June 18. Here, Journalism and Media Innovation…

Knight News Challenge: TranslateDesk: Translation Workbench for Twitter

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 05:50:40 -0400

Knight News Challenge: TranslateDesk: Translation Workbench for Twitter:

newschallenge:

1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]

Develop a translation workbench for Twitter that makes it fun to translate tweets and share them back into Twitter.

2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]

Many services are using machines to translate…

Knight News Challenge: Soley Leve: Stories from the Restoration of Cite Soleil

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 05:40:11 -0400

Knight News Challenge: Soley Leve: Stories from the Restoration of Cite Soleil:

newschallenge:

1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]

Media support for Soley Leve, a Haitian-based community initiative focused on rehabilitation and beautification work in Cite Soleil.

2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]

Restoration efforts continue…

Knight News Challenge: StoryMap

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 05:40:01 -0400

Knight News Challenge: StoryMap:

newschallenge:

1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]

Design and develop an open source tool to easily create a narrative on a map, based on data from different sources.

2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]

There was a similar tool called MapTales…

Knight News Challenge: Data Networks are Local: New Contribution Tools for OpenStreetMap

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 05:31:43 -0400

Knight News Challenge: Data Networks are Local: New Contribution Tools for OpenStreetMap:

newschallenge:

1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]

Grow the OpenStreetMap community and extend the network with open source tools for editing, managing tasks, and serving fast data.

2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]

No. Existing editors and task…

Knight News Challenge: IRC Reborn

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 05:21:46 -0400

Knight News Challenge: IRC Reborn:

newschallenge:

1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]

Change the way people interface with IRC by building a client that completely rethinks the scrolling-text model. It will better support deliberation, content summarization, and extremes in channel activity.

2. Is anyone doing something like this now and…

Further Adventures in Rails Testing

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:32:12 -0400

Further Adventures in Rails Testing:

Yesterday I went to “Hack Day ‘Effective Testing for Rails Projects’” at Viget Labs in Falls Church. After Ruby DCamp I decided I was severely lacking in testing skills as a developer and I’m…

MappingDC OSM Editing Tips and Tricks

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:55:06 -0400

MappingDC OSM Editing Tips and Tricks:

On Wednesday this week we are having the first edition of “OSM Editing Tips and Tricks” for MappingDC. Every time I get together with other OpenStreetMap contributors I learn something that…

Ruby DCamp Day Two

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:56:06 -0400

Ruby DCamp Day Two:

In the past I’ve had a history of only posting about the first day of a barcamp. This is my attempt to buck that trend.

The second day of Ruby DCamp was just as awesome as the first. For…

Ruby DCamp Day One

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:28:24 -0400

Ruby DCamp Day One:

This is really a non-geo post, but I currently do a lot of geo-related programming in Ruby.

Ruby DCamp is the first unconference/barcamp I’ve attended where we actually camped. I’ve been to…

Mapping the Zoo!

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:04:37 -0400

Mapping the Zoo!:

On September 12th MappingDC is going to join the OpenStreetMap meme of mapping zoos in great detail. A good example of this is the Dresden Zoo.

OpenStreetMap contributors…

WhereCamp5280 Day One Highlights

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:55:00 -0400

WhereCamp5280 Day One Highlights:

I attended a previous WhereCamp this year in Palo Alto, that said I wasn’t sure what to expect from WhereCamp5280. For those unfamiliar with BarCamps they are unconferences which means the…

Am I at WhereCamp5280?

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:56:24 -0400

Am I at WhereCamp5280?:

So this week I’m off to WhereCamp5280. In honor of this I forked Andrew Turner’s “Am I at Where?” github repository and made a new repo specifically for WhereCamp5280.

You can play with…

MapLoser Technical Difficultities

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:30:55 -0400

MapLoser Technical Difficultities:

Sorry folks, maploser is having some technical difficulties. I hope we are up again soon sometime this week.

D.C. OpenStreetMap Mapping Party

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:58:50 -0400

D.C. OpenStreetMap Mapping Party:

One of the project I contribute to is the OpenStreetMap project. OSM is similar to Wikipedia but is for geographic data, it is ediable by anyone and can be used with attribution by anyone. One of…

OSM Badge Proposal

Thu, 28 May 2009 22:40:22 -0400

OSM Badge Proposal:

So one of the topics that was prevelant at Where 2.0 and WhereCamp last week was how to get more people mapping for OpenStreetMap. I’ve been thinking about this topic quite a bit lately and my…

Using Columbus v900 a tethered GPS with OSX

Sat, 16 May 2009 23:51:19 -0400

Using Columbus v900 a tethered GPS with OSX:

At the Baltimore OpenStreetMap Mapping party Russ from CloudMade showed us a small GPS the Columbus v900. Here is a link to his review of the device. I had been using my iPhone to contribute…

Twitter/Latitude Location Updater

Tue, 05 May 2009 22:14:32 -0400

Twitter/Latitude Location Updater:

Today Google opened up the Latitude feed so you can get your Latitude location in a KML or JSON feed. I have been working on a longer term project to create a Twitter updater service but to play…