A sequence of events transpired last weekend. These events, one rare, one typical, and one unfortunate came together in a perfect storm-like manner to manifest the idea described in the topic of this posting. Without further delay, here’s the story. I was running. I checked into Foursquare so everyone, or like three people, would know [...]

HereToday is a series iPhone apps whose core is based on the idea of delivering curated, location-specific information to its users. While many apps focus on dynamically generated content, without dwarfing this method’s importance, I would like to argue for the refreshing nature of the deliberate.  Although automated parsers often yield mountainous numbers and, with [...]

For the African Youth Summit this summer ‘09, my group has chosen to focus on Traditional Birth Attendants (midwives) in Ethiopia. Some staggering statistics have made this an especially meaningful subject. While conditions vary from region to region and even village to village, it is said that for parts of Ethiopia, 1 in 10 pregnancies [...]

Hi there. As many of you readers now by now, for Thesis, I am assigning a location to ALL wikipedia articles (not just the obvi ones like a specific city’s page) and pushing their contents to users of the iPhone application when the given user happens to physically be in the said area. Phew!
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When deciding on sources from which to hone my thesis dataset, I came to the realization that Wikipedia is not very useful in terms of a broad search. Sure it’s helpful with nouns and a quick overview of popular topics, but what if you wanted all of the articles pertaining to something a little more [...]