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Re: 2014 Pliny for Volcanic Event of the Year: Nominations Open!

GeoffBallinger — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 16:58:11 -0000

1 - Bárðarbunga-Holuhraun since events like that don't come along all that often, and are rarely as superbly documented.
2 - Fogo for the images of rescuing the wine cellars from the lava flow
3 - Ontake for reminding us of the arbitrary unpredictability of the natural world, and how puny we are in comparison

Re: Yellowstone: The Anatomy of a Supposed Volcanic Conspiracy

GeoffBallinger — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:50:17 -0000

Somewhat OT, but the Campi Flegrei comment previously brought it to mind, I am going to be in the Naples vicinity next October for a family holiday, and given a v. early flight back out am intending to stay over near the airport for the last night.

Pozzuoli seems a pretty natural place to stay in that vicinity and so was wondering what is the best use of half a day there would be from a vulcanological point of view?

Re: Latin American Eruption Update for November 29, 2011: Galeras, Popocatépetl, Puyehue-Cordón Caulle and Tungurahua

GeoffBallinger — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:37:13 -0000

Perhaps something on your favourite topic of balanced media coverage of volcanic risk ;->:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/w...

Re: Tambora: Why the Volcano Won’t Kill Us All (at Least Not Yet)

GeoffBallinger — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:25:40 -0000

I guess the other way to look at it is that the next *really* big eruption whenever it happens will more likely than not come from a volcano that hasn't erupted for a long time? I guess harder to build a documentary or article around that for the mainstream press though ...

PS. Having lurked on the previous incarnation of this blog for a few years time I actually contributed something - Hi everybody!

Re: I want, you want, we all want Swedish Beers!

GeoffBallinger — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:43:25 -0000

Swedish Beers is an excellent opportunity to network with some of the most interesting folks in mobile - usually far more useful than the posturing and droning up in the congress itself!

Re: Man Tries To Pay Bill With Spider Drawing

GeoffBallinger — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:49:10 -0000

Original comes from David Thorne's own site at ...

http://www.27bslash6.com/ov...

He seems to seems to be an entertainingly disturbed individual!

Geoff.

Re: The State of Mobile Blogging: It Ain't Pretty

GeoffBallinger — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:36:19 -0000

After hunting around for an app to do it with no success I ended up simply using the main browser on my E61i to post to my Blogger account - which was entirely workable though not massively quick.

I imagine any of the Safari browsered Nokia S60s would be able to do this. Obviously not massively efficient in mobile data terms though!

Re: 3, Oh How You Make Me Feel Conflicted

GeoffBallinger — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:40:02 -0000

Strongly agree with you that this is very significant. As I ramble on about in more detail over at my blog I think we might be starting to see the tipping point over to flat rate being the normal way things are done.

Very ironic it comes from 3!

In reply to Anders comment above I would say that though we need to wait and see what nasty "fair use" conditions etc. they put in, they do say that "what‚Äôs free to use on the internet should be free to use on mobile broadband" which is a fairly strong pointer.

Geoff.

Re: Mobile Marketing Has Finally Arrived

GeoffBallinger — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:41:30 -0000

I think there is quite a big difference between the current typical use of admob which appears to be driving traffic into sites that sell downloads and other mobile media products, and using it as part of a more traditional marketing. SMS has already crossed this divide.

The mobile browsing platform is slowly maturing and starting to be used as a serious marketing platform in its own right - but it will take a while. But I do agree with Russell - it is coming!

Geoff.