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The very brilliant Rod Page (of whom I've blogged previously ) has made a very cool time/map visualization mashup showing confirmed and suspected cases. The application uses the RSS feeds from the original 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Map .

In the 25th anniversary issue (November/December 2008 (vol. 25 no. 6)) of IEEE Software , my NRC colleague Anatol Kark is part of the editorial team for the special issue on " Opportunistic Software Systems Development ". These are all great articles, and I particularly like the Jansen et al article (" Pragmatic and Opportunistic Reuse in Innovative Start-up Companies ") and feel that almost everyone who is trying to bring their organizationl IT into the 21st century should be forced to read the Gamble et al article (" Monoliths to Mashups: Increasing Opportunistic Assets "). Cornelius Ncube, Patricia Oberndorf, Anatol W. Kark, " Opportunistic Software Systems Development: Making Systems from What's Available ," IEEE Software, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 38-41, Nov/Dec, 2008 Slinger Jansen, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Ivo Hunink, Cetin Demir, " Pragmatic and Opportunistic Reuse in Innovative Start-up Companies ," IEEE Software, vol. 25, no. 6, p...

Both as a Canadian who has enjoyed the rants of Rick Mercer and as someone who spent a lot of time working with geographers at the Atlas of Canada (and even enjoying some of it!), I am appreciating the convergence of these two things as embodied in the self-described rant by Martin Dodge and Chris Perkins ( Reclaiming the map: British Geography and ambivalent cartographic practice ) In their rant, the Royal Geographical Society (" the heart of geography ") is roasted for using a (" Mc-Map ") Google Maps location map on the back of the RGS-IBG 2007 Annual International Conference programme. While concerned with this and the apparent decline of mapping in geography ( Geographers Don’t Map Anymore Do They? ) and the sub-discipline of cartography ( Cartographers: Who Needs Them Anymore? ) I think their conclusion that mapping is actually easier and possibly better and making a popular and significant resurgence ( Mapping Reinvigorated? ) through mashups (including ...