Open Street Map (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the world and the advent of inexpensive portable GPS devices. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open Street Map> (more)

New nodes I should get around to creating. Gotta figure out (a) what to say, and (b) what to connect them to. (more)

Back in Oct'2011 Google started announced higher pricing for significant use of Google Maps, effective Jan01. Sites will receive 25,000 free map views per day, which translates to 750,000 pageviews per month. Developers using more than the free limit will begin paying $4 per 1,000 pageviews. (more)

Member of The Craft. (more)

aka Open Source Hardware

particular instance of a Web Server running a WikiEngine to support 1 or more WikiSpace-s.

a Route Around; Maker (more)

aka Noo Tropic (more)

Find on Wiki Name-s (including in page bodies) (cache list for super performance!). Find "like" pages (same first word or same last word). (Wiki NameNetwork) (more)

Andrew Orlowski says We'll call ourselves Stuckists. We like Open Hardware, and we like routers that don't care about the packets that run through them. We'd like to be stuck there. Where will we be in a world of Multiple TCPA-s? (more)

a weird/lite Semantic Web Wiki Hack... (more)

Some interesting Meditation techniques and other notes on Colin Wilson and Robert Anton Wilson pages...

Bio Technology (more)

IWork's Pages app can output EPub. (more)

Teach Street is a review (Reputation Management) and Social Networking site focused on Educating Adults (Network Of Learning). Initially covering Seattle Wa. (more)

After Cloning Zwiki With Moinmoin was never quite happy with some of the looks here. So just made some changes (more)

High-priced Consumer good. Often the price premium is based more on status Signalling than improved quality or functionality.

NYC is considering Zoning rules to effectively protect Small Retail in the Upper West Side. The proposal would amend the neighborhood’s zoning to limit the ground-floor width of all new stores to 40 feet on two major commercial thoroughfares — Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues — and banks to 25 feet on those two avenues, and on Broadway as well. The 40-foot number was chosen because most are already narrower than that, and 25 feet was regarded by officials as a “workable width” for ground-floor banks. (more)

Cory Doctorow on Joel Kotkin's observation that the A-List cities (Urban) are poor value for normal people, and becoming Luxury Re Sort towns like Vail Co. (Kotkin's piece was a response to Mike Bloomberg Framing NYC as a Luxury good.) Bad Urban Development future with the flight of the Creative Class? (more)

Hugh MacLeod calls Europe (EU) the world's most expensive Luxury good. Every year it get a little more expensive, and nobody has any good ideas about how to make it cheaper. I fear NYC may be in a similar boat. In both cases, some people do know how to make it cheaper, but they don't get listened to.