Attention Whoring

When it comes to the online world I'm pretty much an attention whore. I love seeing my articles and web apps referenced on other blogs, so this past week has been pretty sweet.

I'm most proud of this, the Google Mashup Editor people seem to like what I've done with their (excellent) product, 'cause they got me to write a guest post on their official blog (sweet!). Probably not my best piece of writing, but it's my first on an official Google blog so I'm well chuffed with that.

Related to that, my Earthquake mashup has been getting a lot of press, notably from Google Maps Mania and The Google Mashup blog itself.

The WA Petrol Price mashup's been pretty well received too. I got a nice email from one of the guys who worked on the original FuelWatch site and the mashup got a mention in the Tech section of the Melbourne Age.

Just to round things off I did a little guest post on Google Blogoscoped about the new 'embeddable maps' feature in Google Maps.

I WNT PZA

If Domino's Pizza wasn't so horrifically bad, this would be one of the coolest things ever.

Peru Gets Hammered

Peru got hammered by a massive eathquake today, an 8 on the richter scale. Take a closer look at it on Earthquake!, the USGS (USA) tab has some of the best information.

Here's what it looks like in terms of area effect, along with all the aftershocks.

That dark yellow 'damage' zone has to cover a good third of the Peruvian coast line.

Earthquake!

I was well chuffed this morning to see the Google Mashup Editor blog had announced my latest mashup project, Earthquake!

It shows the magnitudes of recent earthquakes plotted using coloured circles to show the 'damage' and 'felt' radii (more details over at The Radioactive Yak).


The interface is cribbed from the Real-Time Earthquake exhibit at the New York Natural History Museum.