I’m not one to usually participate in these trends but since I haven’t posted anything in a while, this is a good excuse to get into publishing again. Ryan Graves hit me with this and then contacted me directly letting me know. So, I feel a little obligated. I promise, this won’t [...]

Hey, if you don’t like it, vote with your money. When people stop paying for the things a company offers they’ll stop offering it. The Almighty Dollar These are just a few cliches we hear when times are good. We tell our friends that the collective “we” have the power to decide whether a company should be [...]

Shared bookmarks from nateritter Real Change News — This is a fascinating and awesome program to give the homeless a hand up, not a hand out. I’d love to start something like this in San Diego. Resilient 2 Disaster: Western Washington : Real Time Information — Great resource for disaster information real-time Getting a grip on Python: six [...]

The banks got a bailout, the Big 3 Automakers are begging on the streetcorner like pandhandlers, but when we force our schools to sell advertisements on kids’ tests we know we’ve sunk to a new low. Normally, I don’t post videos or comment on the news.  But, something just hits me as smelling like a dead [...]

Thanks to Emily Chang at eHub and Jackson West at LifeHacker.com, the Tiny Geocoder became an overnight smash hit. With 8 hours of submitting my site to eHub it had been picked up and written about. Not long after, LiveHacker picked up the story and wrote a short article on the tiny, fast service that [...]

We are pleased to announce the release of CrisisWire.com. CrisisWire is a self-aggregating website that pulls information on any disaster around the US and displays it on one page. It gets information into the hands of the people that need it most. During a disaster people spend valuable time searching the internet and waiting for [...]

Shared bookmarks from nateritter Tiny Geo-coder | The fastest way to find latitude and longitude — GeoNames Web Services — Lots of web services for geo-stuff in XML, JSON, RDF, TXT, RSS, KML, 4×4, CDROM, ABCBVD, F2F, BRB, ROFL, and other acronyms for TBD. Address book inviter + Social network inviter — Object oriented and works with more email [...]

Warning: This post contains strong and/or offensive geek language. With all the location based services that are out there like BrightKite and FireEagle you’d think geo-coding would be easy. Woah. Wait a second. What’s geo-coding you ask? Geo-coding is where you convert a normal location name, like “San Francisco, CA”, in to a latitude longitude pair, [...]

This past week I’ve been complete ass to 2 different groups. I’ve single-handedly marginalized two different groups of people. One publicly, one privately. You would have thought that I would have learned my lesson a long time ago on how to do be an ass. Apparently, I’m a slow learner. Apparently I [...]

This morning I woke up to my email barrage and found another person/company/robot sending me their press release.  They think that I’ll write about their company because I received a press release from them. Now, I don’t have 20,000 people hanging on every word that comes out of my digital (or analog) mouth.  But, I still [...]