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One relates to “find my phone” type apps (among other things) and a second to using on body (and environmental sensors including GPS) for sports management (managing speeds in a ski area) and broadcasting (providing info on punches in boxing).
- MacNN
You may have heard of Texas State University-San Marcos professor Kim Rossmo; he’s well known as a leading geographic profiling person for crime. But now, he’s branching out to use the same ideas to track shark. He’s studied bees and bats using these techniques, but sharks are people predators. And, it turns out, they behave a lot like serial killers, at least in terms of geography.
Neil Hammerschlag, a doctoral candidate at the University of Miami, and shark research Aiden Martin, who died in 2007, collected GPS-based shark killing behavior in the waters off South Africa. Then they turned the data over to Rossmo for analysis. The resulting paper, by the three was published this week in the Journal of Zoology (abstract). The bottom line: “sharks do not randomly attack their prey but rather work in a comfort zone around their home base, much like serial killers.” The research may help protect important shark habitats.
Bottom line: it’s XML, web forms, .XLS over RSS. Office of Management and Budget spokesman Tom Gavin said the choice was made to find “balance between providing information and being overly burdensome on the recipient. XML is more universal and less burdensome” than news feed formats.
Craig Jennings, a senior policy analyst at government accountability group OMB Watch is looking out for GIS.
For example, say the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which maintains Recovery.gov, wants to display on a user-friendly map the location of stimulus projects using Geographic Information System data. If OMB doesn’t require GIS reporting, then it will be nearly impossible to illustrate the map, he said.
Agencies must start reporting on projects to Recovery.gov in October. Only then will a board decide which data is made public (in XML).
- NextGov
Brook Gladstone of On the Media interviews Mark McElroy is the Senior Vice President of Communications, then Art Brodsky is the communications director for Public Knowledge, an organization “not too keen” on CN getting the work to map the nation’s broadband. Worth a listen if you are trying to make sense of this mapping effort and the challenges therein.
Yes, I’m a media junkie. You too? Then I recommend On the Media, Beat the Press and Reliable Sources. When/If/Until I go to journalism school, these are my “text books.”
