Returned from Tetons/Yellowstone - a few demo photo and Gigapan upload links will be posted soon.

I'm in the Tetons & Yellowstone shooting still & video photography and Gigapans.

Used iPhone to record street maintenance in our neighborhood. Sent to YouTube.
http://ping.fm/vth1i

Who saw the Time Magazine poll results that show Jon Stewart is America's & Idaho's most trusted newscaster?
http://ping.fm/EBAed

Just watched "the best" Apollo 11 Google Earth Tour on the Google Earth Blog:
http://ping.fm/mjqhc

Natural Resources hearing on "Federal Geospatial Data Management"
Web cast Live- Thurs 10:AM ET"
http://ping.fm/q6ufU

The President's Council on Environmental Quality's website has been updated to keep visitors informed.
http://ping.fm/luM4M

Some "Collaborative Learning" concepts http://ping.fm/fvCdt
are similar to "Common Adventure" process.
http://ping.fm/n0oSs

Read interesting technical paper describing ideas about "Collaborative Learning"
http://ping.fm/fvCdt

Derrick Pitts-Astronomer/ Your cell phone has 64 x the computing power than all the computers on any of the Apollo missions.
http://ping.fm/daLR1

Google Earth Blog post - "Look at the Moon in Google Earth - Available Now!" See the Moon in 3D.
http://ping.fm/6zd8u

Report "Linked Data on the Web" and Tim Berners-Lee TED video encouraging everyone to participate.
http://ping.fm/369dU

Read "Crisis of Confidence" Jimmy Carter speech on 15 July 1979. Challenging citizens to address energy problems.
http://ping.fm/glFKe

Read article postulating that "Economics" is a Religion not a Science.
http://ping.fm/q2gH2

"Citizen Science Central"/Projects, Toolkits, Wiki Discussions/ Cornell Lab of Ornithology web site. http://ping.fm/opiWm

Doing research on "Enabling Citizen Science" & found great article by Eric Paulos, Tag - "Mobile & The Web."
http://ping.fm/98GOs

Please read Paul Krugman's "Boiling the Frog" article about the environment and economy.
http://ping.fm/PZ4ej

Joined RoadlessLand.org - a participatory GeoWeb map networking project for photos, comments, etc., - Idaho Petition Map also.
http://ping.fm/DNBtl

"The Twitter Book" |O'Reilly Media| provides power user strategies and tactics I want to learn about.
http://ping.fm/TgUz9

Joined "The Conservation Registry" Online "spatially explicit" on-the-ground database for OR, WA, ID.
http://ping.fm/5nr9M

Read Dr. Jim Hanson's article "G-8 Failure Reflects U.S. Failure on Climate Change."
http://ping.fm/ru4Ux

Daniel Terdiman "Road Trip 2009" http://ping.fm/4pUiv will be in Boise, ID tomorrow.

Boston "Citizen Connect" article in Boston Globe URL.
http://ping.fm/zWo8x

Boston residents to use "Citizen Connect" iPhone app to instantly send "trackable" complaints and Geotagged photos to City Hall.
http://ping.fm/DPsUM

Google Earth Blog identifies new Google Earth Tour creation tools allowing people to create and share guided tours.
http://ping.fm/3PYS9

New iPhone app provides 19 geology GIS layers for California. More states, data & features planned.
http://ping.fm/Mt9QI

Read "Rolling Stone" article by Matt Taiabi on Huffington Post - criticizing Goldman Sachs market manipulation. Link now unavailable -Why?

Link to my MobileMe Gallery- "One of Katy's flower beds" video shot with the iPhone 3GS.
http://ping.fm/6ZCY8

Using EarthURL.org I created a 3D interactive view of downtown Boise buildings starting from behind the Depot.
http://ping.fm/KW67M

Using the new iPhone 3GS & the Earthscape app I have uploaded dozens of Geotagged images on neighborhood dog walks.
http://ping.fm/YRrzH

Using the iPhone 3G Earthscape app I have uploaded hundreds of Geotagged images mostly around Boise on daily dog Walks.
http://ping.fm/kTpJg

Serve.gov "Create your own project" uses a "Common Adventure" organizational process. On my blog are posts related to this process.
http://ping.fm/uPDpv

Noted that Serve.gov provides a toolkit of ideas for "Creating your own project."
http://ping.fm/hKA5m

Looked at White House announcement and links to Serve.gov (a new portal for Americans to serve in their communities.)
http://ping.fm/EEAsq

Geotagged photos from Prince of Wales Island, Alaska

We had a long weekend to explore the Northern section of Prince of Wales Island, Alaska - May 29 through May 31, 2009. I have posted a few of the images from this trip on my Picasa Web Album page. Each album and each photo is geotagged and you can view them on a Google Map and also in Google Earth. (However, for the Macintosh, Picasa web apparently does not let you view the images in Google Earth. This does work for a Windows PC .)

From Prince of Wales Island, Alaska May 31, 2009

I am working on a Google Earth 5 narrated tour for each of these days and will post notices here when they are ready.

May 29 - Klawock to Exchange Bay.

May 30 - Exchange Bay to Memorial Beach and Labouchere Bay.

May 31 - Labouchere Bay to Coffman Cove and back to Klawock.

Gigapan Photos Southeast Alaska and British Columbia

I shot and have produced several Gigapan images that allow you to zoom in to see telephoto details from a recent trip through Canada to Ketchikan and Prince of Wales Island in Alaska. You can see these on my Gigapan web site page.

Please note on the web page above you can view these Gigapan Photos in a full screen mode for a higher quality image. There is also an option to view these images in the 3D Google Earth browser where they line up almost exactly with the horizon and direction of view.

One example showing the downtown harbor area and mountains near downtown Ketchikan is embedded below.

Another Gigapan below shows Labouchere Bay on the Northern part of Prince of Wales Island.

Web Squared web cast video available here:
http://ping.fm/4LGGB

Participated in "Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five years On" web cast. White paper by Tim O'Reilly & John Battelle here.
http://ping.fm/Gl1nS

Facebook and Twitter use explosion

Every day, for months now, there is new information about new Web 2.0 uses of Twitter and the growth of the number of users of Facebook. I have been taking some more time to experiment with these networking tools and consequently have not been adding personal blog posts here on a regular basis. Possibly I will set up a connection between my posts to Twitter, to also be posted here in the near future.

Included here are links to my Twitter page and my Facebook page with a few recent comments, including links to Gigapan photographs and geotagged photos I took while on a recent photo trip to Prince of Wales Island in Alaska. (I will add links here in another post.)