Thursday, 16 June 2016

The Physical Web. Yeah, thats a good idea.

In the last week I've discovered the Physical Web from google, and I'm sold on the idea. Apart from the "what's around here" geeky stuff, it's a great idea for sensible 'distant' digital signage. For example, $dayjob is at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, but we don't plaster our URL over the visitor area - what if guests could be gently prompted to the right URL by beacon?

Again tonight (while watching WASO play the Indiana Jones score) I noticed a set of three A3 posters explaining to users of another part of the conference centre how to connect to wifi and download <exhibit> app. This isn't even Scott Jensen's complaint of a 'dos prompt on the browser' - it's more a dig out the index card from the library, then go to the dos prompt...


Particulate measurements near bushfires

Back in the 2019 Tasmanian bushfires we were lucky enough to be the other side of the Huon River from the fireground,  however we had a LOT...