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White House wants 500MHz of “new” spectrum for wireless broadband

Posted by Ryan on June 28, 2010 at 3:12 pm

The White House wants to add to the USA’s wireless broadband spectrum by offering up/re-allocating 500MHz of spectrum for new usage. The official press release spells out the President’s 4 point plan. The goals are to:
1. Identify and plan for the release of 500 MHz of spectrum
2. Provide the tools needed to [...]

Google’s Public Data Explorer

Posted by Ryan on June 13, 2010 at 7:20 pm

Google labs added a promising app in March. Google Public Data Explorer lets users view and manipulate public data sets. By easing access to and graphing of data sets, apps like GPD offer the potential to greatly increase data analysis and research output. Hopefully the app will develop quickly and more and [...]

Redesign/refocus

Posted by Ryan on May 10, 2010 at 1:50 am

I’ve redesigned the site and changed my content management software.  The change has been good in that I’ve moved away from MT, which offered more than I needed, and have adopted Wordpress, which seems to suit my requirements quite well.  The downside is that – while I have kept archives of my old posts – [...]

Back in the Saddle.

Posted by Ryan on January 29, 2010 at 7:03 am
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I’ve been a bad bad blogger. Bad. However, having reached a psychically draining data analysis phase of thesis research I need all the non-thesis related outlets available to me. So, I’ve decided to get back in the writing saddle. More to come soon. As a stop-gap measure, here’s a photo [...]

Blogs with Borders

Posted by Ryan on February 21, 2009 at 9:16 am

Out of personal interest I’ve decided to create a database of blogs which focus on a particular geographic area. This database will occasionally be converted to a kml file, which can be overlaid onto a google map as seen below. Those sites marked with a ‘C’ feature more cultural content, whereas those marked [...]