Will Grant and I have written an article on the Diffusion blog titled “An Atlas of Now” describing the project I’m working on at CPAS.
We are in the process building a system – using both established and novel open source intelligence methods – to gauge, assess and display changes in the online discussion of science and technology issues, controversies and dangerous alternate conceptions. Our goal is to develop a science communication ‘atlas of now’: revealing geographical and temporal changes in attitudes to science and technology issues throughout society.
(An Atlas of Now)
We will be presenting a paper on this project at the Australian Science Communicators National Conference February 2010.
Last night we had home made sushi for dinner. It was good 
I’ve been helping to organise a Google Wave Hackathon Day in Canberra. It is going to be on Saturday 8th August at ANU. Here is the flyer for it:
PROGRAM:
| 9:30am |
Registration |
| 10:00am |
Talks
A presenter from Google (details available soon) will give an introduction to the Wave API.
If you have already been developing for Wave, please consider giving a short presentation about what you have done (doesn’t have to be a formal presentation). |
| 12:00 pm |
Brainstorming Lunch (BYO or we will take orders & payment for pizza at registration) |
| 1:00 pm |
Hacking |
| 5:00 pm |
Demos |
| 7:00 pm |
Head out for dinner at restaurant (at your own cost). |
LOCATION: Room N101, CIST Building, ANU, North Road, Canberra
You must register if you wish to attend so that a Google Wave Developer sandbox account can be created for you. Registrations will close on Tuesday, 4th August so that the accounts can be created. Numbers are limited, so please register as soon as possible at: http://tr.im/cbrwave
This day is being organised by volunteers who are interested in Google Wave development and thought it would be useful to have a Google Wave developers day in Canberra. Please indicate if you are willing to assist with organising and running the day. Contact brenda@moon.net.au for more information.
We will be providing WiFi internet access, but you will need to bring your own computer. Please have a look at the developer information on the Google Wave site (http://code.google.com/apis/wave/) as an introduction.
