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After Darwin

Sunday, August 19, 2012

I started automating  tweeting real-time excerpts from Charles Darwin’s Beagle Diary several years ago, beginning just in time to coincide with the bicentenary in 2009. I jumped into the Beagle voyage already underway in 1833, so I missed about a year of travel. In Beagle time it’s now 1836 and Charles, Fitzroy and The Beagle are heading [...]

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More of Darwin

Sunday, January 16, 2011

I thought it about time I started using the Facebook page I’d setup for The Beagle Voyage some time ago. I I created a Facebook Application which uses oAuth to post the same content as the Tweets at  @cdarwin to Facebook as status updates. Why not go there and Like the page. In time I [...]

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My pre-holiday newsletter

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

To make the most of the run-up to our holiday I knocked together a simple newsletter that aggregates various sources of information. So, the weather information I’m pulling from Google RSS feeds (eg: http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=Portland,Oregon). Photos of the area, I’m pulling from Flickr – for example, http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=Oregon,Landscape News feeds are being pulled from a variety of [...]

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