so get this, it turns out that blogging is about to receive a new infusion of creativity…and right in time, because everything i’m reading regularly is starting to make me feel like i’m standing barefoot in a puddle of room temperature piss…am i talking about another scoble blog? another future-dead-site like wonkette? something cooler, like sex and moxie? (disclosure: i really do love that sex and moxie blog, sorry)

…and the answer is: none of the above. this is about blogging pigeons taking to the sky above san jose armed with little satellite receivers, air pollution sensors and little cellphones…they’re going to measure pollutants and then send the findings via sms to a real time blog…oh, and they’re gonna take some aerial photos too (so stop getting high in your backyard you telecommuting bums because pigeons tend to fly low)

from the new scientist breaking news bit that covered this, “”We are combining an air pollution sensor with a home-made cellphone,” says interdisciplinary artist and researcher Beatriz da Costa of the University of California, Irvine, who came up with the idea of the pigeon blog with her students Cina Hazegh and Kevin Ponto…The pigeon bloggers are due to be released at the Inter-Society for Electronic Arts’ annual symposium in San Jose on 5 August. The data they send back will be displayed on the blog in the form of an interactive map. As well as providing local residents with real-time data on air quality, da Costa hopes the pigeon blog will inspire people to come up with new ways to monitor the environment. The pigeons will also carry cameras around their necks and post aerial photos to the blog.“

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