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Write-up: rewiredstate.org/projects/notw
Demo: dharmafly.com/hpwebos-hackday/demo/ (Warning: utterly non-optimised at the moment)
Winner of the HP webOS developer event at The Guardian.
This prototype is an experimental approach for exploring content (e.g. news, reviews and photos) about any place on earth.
Starting at the reader's current location, a magazine-style page of content is pulled in for that place (e.g. a one mile square centred on Kings Cross, London). The reader can then slide the page in any of eight compass directions (north, east, south, west, nw, ne, sw, se), to re-centre the magazine at that new location (e.g. a one mile square centred on Hillingdon).
We've divided the world into a grid of cells, and the user can slide between any of the cells to view the content that it contains. Articles of content are linked through to their original source: e.g. a travel article from The Guardian, or a note on the history of a place from Wikipedia.
We built a native app for the HP TouchPad tablet. Happily, because this uses standard web technologies (HTML, JavaScript and CSS), it also works in a simple web browser.
The format is ideally suited to a tablet like the TouchPad: location-aware, tactile navigation, content for reading and exploring while on the move. The magazine might be used to explore content around a particular part of the world, or to follow the user on a journey.
Working in the same, familiar way as the "slippy map" of Google Maps, we provide an intuitive mechanism for browsing, though one that we have never seen in this form before.
The content could be taken from any data source that contains geo information. In our prototype, we use the Guardian Open Platform's travel pages and the Geonames Wikipedia web service.
We would like to explore user-curated content types, zooming in and out to widen or narrow a search, adding an actual geographical map as an accompanying layer, and a number of innovations on the user interface.
[On the day that the News of the World closed down]
I'm in a new place where I can't put Icons on the walls. Our family - like most religious Greeks- traditionally has an 'iconostasis' or icon stand in the corner. Ikea came in handy here with a corner cabinet! It wasn't cheap but having an icon corner is important.
www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?cat...
Galleria d'Arte Moderna Milano.
Gauguin.
Donne di Tahiti.
1891.
sirbecweb2.gam-milano.com/webapp/opera.php?id_opera=643&a...
The remains of a former Infirmary Chapel, which lies alongside the Cathedral in the city of Canterbury in Kent.
The ruins which are largely early to mid 12th century comprise the remains of the south arcade and some buttresses of the Infirmary Hall and much of the Infirmary Chapel.
The building was erected in Prior Wibert's time and still contains some fine but badly eroded sculpture. The south arcade, south wall and most of the ruined chancel are extant. Inserted into the mid 12th century walls are three 14th century windows. The chapel was damaged in an earthquake in 1382 and repaired 1383-4.
Information sources:
webapps.kent.gov.uk/KCC.ExploringKentsPast.Web.Sites.Publ...
We finally got around to assembling one of the a/v shelf units that I ordered from The Library Store. While I'm happy with it as far as ease of assembly, and the finished product, I felt shafted when we opened the box and discovered that every single piece of it is MDF board with a thin veneer of wood on the surfaces that show. The ad did not mention MDF, only the different types of wood. I would not have paid what I did if I'd known that we were getting MDF.
thelibrarystore.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisp...