For FOSS4G 2007 I got roped in to doing a lightning talk. It was a fun experience and I’m glad I did get to go up on stage (and early in the conference so my talk wasn’t subject to the effects of the many pubs/parties).

The slides are available on SlideShare, but it’s mostly just pictures of the various projects. It’s better to go directly to the bookmark list: http://del.icio.us/tags/BeyondGPS.

Last (last) month - I did an interview on IMI Tech-Talk radio discussing my O’Reilly Shortcut “Introduction to Neogeography”. It was a great 30-minute coverage of my interests in geography and the geospatial web and a quick overview of some of the useful tools that have shown up and how users are using them.

The interviewer was in New York City, I am in Michigan, and the broadcast area is Phoenix, Arizona. So if you weren’t in the area you probably missed it. Fortunately, they finally put up the archive just a week or so ago, so you can listen for free.

Download the show here.

I haven’t listened to the whole thing myself. It’s that typical “my voice sounds weird” that makes it difficult to just sit back and enjoy. But I hope you do. Please let me know what you think.

Here is the link to the presentation I gave Monday afternoon at the O’Reilly booth at Web2.0 Expo. It was a 45-minute quick-tour through Neogeography and cool tools/utilities/howtos that you should investigate more.

Web2.0 - Neogeography (10MB, pdf). Measures at 86 slides.

I was bad and used some animations for changing images and showing examples. This doesn’t work so well in PDF format. The links and primary material is still there. If something is unclear, just drop me a line and I can explain it, point to the source, or otherwise clarify.

This is just a small sample of what is discussed in the actual Neogeography Shortcut, so I of course still recommend picking that up at the low-low price of $7.99. Much cheaper than the Web2.0 Expo was.

I put together a presentation that didn’t get time at the first AnnArbor.rb meeting. The topic is “Ruby & Hardware” and is a quick rundown of some cool devices that can run (or be interfaced by) Ruby, such as NabazTag, SqueezeBox, Nokia 770. They’re all at various levels of support and functionality, but you can run Ruby on all of them.

Check out the presentation here: Ruby & Hardware.

I’ll be talking about them at the November AnnArbor.rb/RubyMI meeting if you want to come by.