I posted this three years ago (!) but the question recently popped back into my head and since I find the answer truly awe-inspiring in that "how many stars are there in the galaxy?" kinda way, I'm going to post it again.
I suspect the process has remained essentially the same in those intervening three years but is even better because of advances in hardware, software and web technologies as well as ongoing, constant refinements by the Google team.
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Friday, July 30
Friday Repeat Link - How *Does* A Google Query Work?
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Jason
on Fri 30 Jul 2010 11:31 PM CST
Tuesday, July 27
Google Lit Trips
by
Jason
on Tue 27 Jul 2010 08:42 PM CST
Google Lit Trips is a pretty cool site where users can submit their own mash-ups combining Google Earth files with the places visited in famous novels. Although it's aimed mostly at teachers looking to teach literature in a different way, this site can be enjoyed by any book lovers.
(via MetaFilter) Friday, July 9
Friday Fun Link - Apple's Eight Steps to Beat Microsoft & Google
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Jason
on Fri 09 Jul 2010 10:37 PM CST
Friday, May 28
Friday Fun Link - Google Tourist Heat Map (May 28, 2010)
by
Jason
on Fri 28 May 2010 11:50 PM CST
Here's a pretty cool mash-up that takes user-submitted photos to Panoramio and places them onto a Google Map to identify tourist hot-spots worldwide.
Wednesday, April 21
Parody Is Not An Infrigement of Copyright (Watch It While You Can)
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Jason
on Wed 21 Apr 2010 08:34 PM CST
I wrote about this meme before. Turns out that a couple years after these parodies gave their German-language art house film some international attention, the people who made the movie have decided that the single scene used for all these parodies is an "infringement" of their work. Well, they say that dinosaurs had small brains and that's why they went extinct...
Friday, April 2
Friday Fun Link - Is Google God? (April 2, 2010)
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Jason
on Fri 02 Apr 2010 08:50 PM CST
If you think about it, you can make a pretty strong case that Google is the closest thing we have to a scientifically-provable omniscient, omnipresent God. (I know I'm a believer!)
Meanwhile, I saw this photo on an atheist message board today with the very un-PC but otherwise fitting caption given the recent sex scandals rocking the Catholic Church: "Happy Easter! Enjoy Your Chocolate Treats - You Know This Guy Will!".   Sunday, March 28
The CMO's Guide to the Social Landscape
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Jason
on Sun 28 Mar 2010 10:42 PM CST
Easily the best session at the PLA Virtual Conference I hosted at RPL last week was the one on "Marketing as Conversation: How to Interact with Your Community Through Your Web Site".
In fact, throughout the presentation, I just kept nodding my head and grinning like a goofball, thinking to myself, "Yep, uh-huh, that's right!" Here's a graphic I came across that reinforced many of the points of that presentation in a different way - "The Chief Marketing Officer's Guide to the Social Landscape" Good stuff! Friday, March 12
Friday Fun Link - Visualiy Representing the Top 100 Sites on the Internet (March 12, 2010)
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Jason
on Fri 12 Mar 2010 11:31 PM CST
Thursday, February 18
Google Donates Two Million Dollars To Wikipedia, No Strings Attached
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Jason
on Thu 18 Feb 2010 06:18 PM CST
With Google announcing a two million dollar donation to Wikipedia, I wonder, "did I predict the future nearly four years ago?"
"I don't know if any two technology companies have been better suited for each other. There's already been rumours of a strategic partnership and, like the recent YouTube purchase, I think a formal partnership of this type would be an ideal situation. Combine the technological expertise and deep pockets of Google with the open-access policies and "third wave of the Net" cultural impact of Wikipedia and many good things are guaranteed to happen." ...although I have no idea what I meant with the reference to YouTube? I think I was saying that Google should put money into Wikipedia but obviously, I didn't think Google would be able to buy Wikipedia outright...or did I? Tuesday, February 9
If I Knew Google Was Dropping By...
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Jason
on Tue 09 Feb 2010 04:34 PM CST
...I would've cut the grass!
 View Larger Map And my workplace - Regina Public Library on the right and beautiful Victoria Park on the left... View Larger Map Oh, okay, one more. Here's our family farm overlooking the Qu'Appelle Valley. (It's not documented but someone said that a lot of small towns are in the database now too. Indian Head didn't work but the major highways running by it (including #56 which goes from IH to our farm and on to the Qu'Appelle Valley) are mapped. Pretty cool! View Larger Map Okay, I won't keep adding more maps in here but I just wanted to mention that I was wrong above - Indian Head is one of the small towns that's been mapped (I must've clicked wrong or something to miss it the first time) and I got to see a view of the house I grew up in. Then we flipped down to Shea's parents' house in Weyburn to see her parent's house and there's my brother-in-law in the garage, working on my father-in-law's truck! |
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