I’ve been skanking round my kitchen to the sounds of K.I.G. family’s massive Head, shoulderz, kneez and toez for a while now; it’s been on MistaJam’s show plenty, also on Ace and Vis. Yep, there’s some mad skanks kicking about: the Migraine skank being another fave, not to mention Jump in the middle and skank, the Jungle skank and the Tribal skank   » Continue reading “Skankin”

Thanks to the wonders of Qwitter, I get to see which Tweets lead to folks unfollowing, an interesting activity. Given I tweet about multiple topics from the same account, it’s not surprising that there are off topic tweets as far as followers are concerned! I was kind of surprised the other day though when a tweet about late night visibility analysis prompted the loss of a number of users. I was puzzled: I often tweet about GIS things and what I’m doing, why was this different. Then my partner pointed out it was a bit negative; I was twoaning again. Twoaning, I asked…? Yes; tweet + moan = twoan, from which comes twoaning, the act of moaning via twitter. Hmmm. A new word is born, but one which I shall try not to do too much.

This was the title of presentation given by Mary Spence, the outgoing president of the British Cartographic Society, at the Institute for Archaeologists annual conference last week. The presentation was given in the same session in which I was presenting, revolving around new technologies, particularly mobile spatial technologies, in archaeology. I was looking forward to the talk by Mary Spence as I had previously heard her on the radio talking about issues relating to making maps in today’s techno-centric world; she was, at that time, pushing for improvements in the quality of maps and the media had picked up on her criticisms of the kinds of maps based on eg Google Maps and Yahoo Maps which are often cartographically quite poor. » Continue reading “Could do better…”