Weary Mappers

In the mashups lab, I teach students about using "View Source" to look for clues to deciphering tech. choices...

If you saw this today from XKCD

and asked 'How'd they do that?', a quick peek would point to PanoJS - a former Googlecode project, now proudly standing out on it's own...

In other dynamic-spatial-not-necessarily-geospatial tech. topics, some of you may have seen one non-traditional (panning/zooming) presentation at GIS Day (I did not)

for which I heard at least one reaction to the software used... from the description I imagine it's the same software I watched my son Sam use to do a collaboratively-edited (simultaneously) slideshow for his Science class the other night - Prezi

I'm as guilty as anyone (falling back on ppt) but maybe we should try out Prezi?

http://prezi.com/

because powerpoints just (still) aren't that impressive.