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An article on AT&T from Salon:
Specifically, AT&T has hinted that it plans to charge Web companies a kind of toll to send data at the highest speeds down DSL lines into its subscribers' homes. The plan would make AT&T a gatekeeper of media in your home. Under the proposal, the tens of millions of people […]
Radio programmes from the BBC. Check it out here. Odd that I haven’t heard much about it. A little more information on BBC Radio’s Download and Podcast Trial.
Podcasts, streams, or direct downloads of the audio.
Amazing mashup of Google Maps and Census 2000 data.
Google Maps the census: “
This Google Maps mashup from AnalyGIS and SRC adds census information from the 2000 census to the Google Maps interface we already know and love.
Just put in your address and you can quickly see the population, income, and housing statistics for your area […]
Animated Flash map of Iraq war casualties:
“Xeni Jardin:
This animated map of coalition military fatalities during the Iraq war unfolds at ten frames per second. Each frame represents one day of the war. One dot marks each casualty site.’A death begins as a white flash, then grows to a larger red dot, which turns black […]
Adding to the information overload: University Channel
The University Channel makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public. It is a place where academics can air their ideas and present research in a full-length, uncut format. Contributors with greater video production capabilities can submit original productions.
Though I've seen Stanford and Harvard offering podcasts, lectures, etc… online, […]
newsmap - An oldie but a goodie.
An application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator.
http://del.icio.us/popular/system:filetype:mp3
including:
Orson Welles - War of the World broadcast
dial scan of new york’s fm band the night lennon died
Feist - mushaboom (postal service remix)
and more!
Check out Podbop, a great way to hear music from bands coming to your city.
“Type in a city, get MP3s, discover a band you like, and go see them.”
Here’s Athens:
http://podbop.org/cities/us/ga/athens
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