An attempt to capture the current weather station data for archiving on my website.
The Agriculture Forestry and Economic Development branch of the Government of Alberta maintains a bunch of weather stations. One of these sits outside Wimborne. It is almost as good as a home based weather station.
I enquired to the person who does the programming for the data. Is there an easy way to post the data to my website? No.
So I am forced to take screenshots of the data page and post them randomly.
I really wish the data was open and accessible [ see https://open.alberta.ca/opendata ]. After all the data is generated with our tax dollars.
I didn't know that I was being hurt
Until the next day came.
The lack of explanation holding confusion from forming
into teardrops.
Knowing the riddles should turn The Great Gates of Knowledge
into sliding doors with sensors.
Humans are sad creatures.
Sad and lonely.
Sad and lonely.
No frown
While the sword keep swinging
Sharp by Sharp
Polishing the hearing.
Flash animation was great at the beginning, but it was always difficult to share and embed elsewhere. When social media came along, there were people making movies with Flash [NO! not Flash Gordon!] and you were getting that blank box with the text message “This content requires the Flash animation plugin….download it here”
NEXT!
Now the Internet Archives has figured out a way to save them. I made Flash animations and couldn’t even save them the first time!
Haven’t tried it yet but found on a Web Dev geek site.
Expressive Pixels Open Source App from Microsoft
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/expressive-pixels/ The app gives the ability for people share animated visualizations in their own unique way. Users can make and show both static and animated images on LED displays and other digital devices, such as a PC. You can export the JSON code for use in other programs.
That’s it. I just had enough free time to paste this blog post together ya!
I am seriously wondering when the worlds attraction to social media will implode. I’ve been waiting for over a decade now. Take care of your own data!
I’ve just heard on the following podcast that Huber Engineered Wood Ltd. used Instagram to educate clients about improvements in building techniques and product use. The account got hacked and Facebook’s (owners of Instagram) answer to the help request was to shut down the entire account without notice. It’s a corporate account, which makes it very unprofessional when it suddenly drops dead from facebookitus.
Huber’s Instagram site is a great example of how to use the social media platform for marketing. But have your own website too! Sounds complicated? Time consuming? Not really if you set up some web automation you can send your content accross any number of social media platforms. Automatically! Instantaneous! Simultaneous!
Here are 3 sites that can do “web automations”. Some easy to use, others are more complex, but offer more powerful features.
Integromat. The most advanced automation platform I’ve looked at
Zapier very powerful and a full range of connected services
IFTTT Easy to use and is recommended by IOT users.
If you want even more convincing that you should take better care of what you post to these “free” social sites, here it is:
NATO Soldiers Manipulated by Facebook Fake Accounts
NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence is multi-nationally constituted and NATO-accredited international military organization, which is not part of the NATO Command Structure, nor subordinate to any other NATO entity. They created the Catfish accounts to study NATO soldiers.
The NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (NATO StratCom COE) wanted to know how vulnerable troops were to social media. They did some social experiments on their troops (pardon the pun). I’d encourage you to read the white paper on their findings. It involves Catfishing, and if you don’t know what that is, read the World Economic Forums take on this study. I’ve saved a copy right here for you in PDF
