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Airspace Rebooted Movie

By Data Visualisation

We are always suckers for data visualisation clips and this one of the northern European airspace returning to use after being closed due to volcanic ash is great. Due to varying ash density across Europe, the first flights can be seen in some areas on the 18th and by the 20th everywhere is open:


The flight data is courtesy of flightradar24.com and covers a large fraction of Europe. There are a few gaps (most noticeably France) and no coverage over the Atlantic, but the picture is still clear.

The map data is CC-by-SA openstreetmap.org and contributors.

This CC-by-SA visualisation was produced by itoworld.com with support from ideasintransit.org

Tweeting from Conferences – Live Criticism and How to Cope

By Nature, Twitter

We write occasionally for the Nature Network, as such we thought readers maybe interested in our latest post on the rise of twitting at events and conferences.

A few weeks ago we presented our latest work ‘The Geography of Everything’ at the yearly conference organised by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. With the work featured in New Scientist and based around a new way of tagging every object in the world via the talesofthings.com site we hoped for a good reception. Indeed the reception was good with an excellent write up in the Guardian and a series of suitably scientific questions fielded and answered. What we were not quite prepared for was the archive of the tweet feed with various audience members ‘tweeting’ through the event.

Carry on reading over at Urban Nature…

Tweeting from Conferences – Live Criticism and How to Cope

By Nature, Twitter

We write occasionally for the Nature Network, as such we thought readers maybe interested in our latest post on the rise of twitting at events and conferences.

A few weeks ago we presented our latest work ‘The Geography of Everything’ at the yearly conference organised by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. With the work featured in New Scientist and based around a new way of tagging every object in the world via the talesofthings.com site we hoped for a good reception. Indeed the reception was good with an excellent write up in the Guardian and a series of suitably scientific questions fielded and answered. What we were not quite prepared for was the archive of the tweet feed with various audience members ‘tweeting’ through the event.

Carry on reading over at Urban Nature…

Radio 4 Click On Interview – 16.30 Today and Online

By Media Coverage, radio 4 click on

Last week we went up to Broadcasting House in London and met the nice people behind the Radio 4 show ‘Click On’.

The show explores the latest developments in from the world of information technology, and how these affect our lives. We were interviewed about the latest project TalesofThings, where you can tag anything and everything and leave your memories attached to objects.

As part of the tagging architecture side of the work we officially ‘tagged’ broadcasting house. The TalesofThings qrcode is now in the lobby, pictured left is the Click On presenter Simon Cox. Using our free iPhone app you can record your memories of the building.

Indeed, you can tag anything – TalesofThings provides a free, quick and easy way to link any media to any object via small printable tags known as qr codes or rfid labels. How about tagging your old antique clock, a building, or perhaps that object you’re about to put on eBay. Last week we placed a tag on a wall in Camden Town, London which brings a long lost Banksy back to life, the tag can be scanned and new memories attached to it. Its an easy way to create a new type of network in the city.

Click On is broadcast Mondays at 4.30pm on Radio 4 with the podcast available shortly after.

Find out more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/clickon

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