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Archives for April 16, 2010

Boy Scouts Celebrate 100 Years With Geocaching

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The new geocache badge is appearing during the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts. This from the official site of Boy Souts of America… For our 100th Anniversary Celebration, the BSA is tapping into the fun and excitement of geocaching. Here are a few highlights of what Scouts will learn while earning Geocaching merit badge:

  • Precautions necessary to have a safe time while searching for geocaches
  • Geocaching etiquette and how the principles of Leave No Trace apply
  • Geocaching terms
  • How GPS technology works
  • Steps for finding and logging a cache
  • How to use geocaching.com, the official online home of geocaching

The Boy Scouts of America has developed five geocaching activities for the Get in the Game! program.

  • Pillars of Scouting – “Travel Bugsr” that go from cache to cache around the nation to highlight core Scouting values. Please note: There are five pillars per council. Unfortunately, we don’t have enough to supply each unit.
  • Cache to Eagler – BSA districts across America are hiding caches to showcase some of Scouting’s great gifts to America, Eagle Scout service project sites. Learn how this program started at Geoscouting.com.
  • Treasures of Scouting – Caches around the country that showcase Scouting people and programs: Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Venturing, Scouting Alumni, and Volunteers.
  • Race to 2010 – Pinewood Derby cars are zooming around the nation. It’s not too late to join in the fun! Start your engines today!
  • Cache In Trash Out – Partnering with Geocaching.com, Scouts join in a single day of service throughout America.

Boy Souts are asking for volunteers interested in helping out  – See more at http://scouting.org/100years/100years/Geocaching.aspx. See Also Geocaching.com

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There’s still time to celebrate Foursquare Day #4sqDay

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Yes indeed, today being 4/16 (get it, 4 squared is 16!!) so naturally it was a perfect time to celebrate foursquare day. It seems there’s tons of events taking place all over with various plans to celebrate foursquare day. There’s still time for you to plan a meetup, tweetup, parry or swarm to celebrate the event… just make sure that everyone checks-in so they can grab the 4sqDay badge! See more details on the event at http://4sqday.com you can even add details of your event to the event listings and be sure to also join the facebook fanpage at http://www.facebook.com/FoursquareDay

Other links of interest:

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ArcGIS Ideas goes Live

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Looks like the new ESRI Community “Ideas” resource is now live at http://ideas.arcgis.com. ESRI customers can use the resource to post their ideas, comment on other ideas, vote for favorite ideas, and discuss ideas with the community. Note, users will be required to login via their ESRI Global account in order to participate.

Sharing your Flickr Photos with A Slideshow

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I’m a long time Flickr user having joined a few weeks after the service launched several years ago. With thousands of photos archived permanently it gets tough to come up with clever ways to organize and share photos.  One of my favorite and most useful tools is a cool Slideshow creation tool called FlickrSlidr http://flickrslidr.com. the app enables users to easily and quickly create a handy slideshow of images (all of them or from a selected set) and share via website or blog.  Just another handy tool for the toolbox! Finally, a handy tip.. when archiving photos from your travels on flickr, be sure to organize your photos in logical sets. IF you need to create a map of your photos simply be sure to geotag photos from an entire set, then you’ll be able easily grab a GeoRSS feed of your photoset and use it within tools like google maps and Google Earth to display and share your images using a handy map UI.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Mobile App Tip – Don’t Text Me – asks people to wait

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A new app for the iPhone was released today with hopes of curtailing accidents while people are texting and driving. “DON’T TEXT ME” is the name of the App and is available now in the iTunes Store. Here’s now it works… All you need to do is create a list of the people who constantly text you, store it and, with the push of one button it notifies them not to text you while you are driving. When you have arrived at your destination, you press another button which tells your contacts you are available and can receive text messages. Other features can also be customized such as: don’t text me I’m working; at a meeting; in class; at dinner; or, whatever suits any given situation. Download the app HERE

Government Archiving Your Tweets Via The Library of Congress

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You may have stumbled onto details of this on Twitter as this week at the Twitter Chirp event it was revealed that the entire archive of public Tweets posted to Twitter will be archived at the Library of Congress. Now, no doubt about 99% of these will be considered “junk”, however, the reasoning seems to be to preserve an archive of “important” tweets. Just a few examples of important tweets in the past few years include the first-ever tweet from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey (http://twitter.com/jack/status/20), President Obama’s tweet about winning the 2008 election (http://twitter.com/barackobama/status/992176676), and a set of two tweets from a photojournalist who was arrested in Egypt and then freed because of a series of events set into motion by his use of Twitter (http://twitter.com/jamesbuck/status/786571964) and (http://twitter.com/jamesbuck/status/787167620).

From the Library of Congress blog… How Tweet It Is! Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive… “Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. That’s a LOT of tweets, by the way: Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets every day, with the total numbering in the billions… Expect to see an emphasis on the scholarly and research implications of the acquisition.” If interested, here’s the official Tweet from the Library of Congress announcing this! Of interest, they (The Library of C) also operate the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program www.digitalpreservation.gov, which is pursuing a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content, especially information that is created in digital form only, for current and future generations.

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