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Pigeons to Blog Pollution

Posted by samzenpus on from the 100-monkeys-with-typewriters dept.

Strolls writes "In an release which conjures images of avian borg, a press release tells of plans to release pigeons equipped with cellphones and GPS so that they can "blog" air pollution data. The plan is the brainchild of Beatriz da Costa of the University of California Digital Arts Research Network and is scheduled as part of the inter-Society for Electronic Arts' annual symposium in San Jose in August. Da Costa has previously been involved with RFID roaches."

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  1. Blog? by MustardMan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How is this blogging, exactly? It's bad enough we have eight zillion blog derivative buzzwords, but when they are completely mis-applied it's even more annoying. Next step: record dogs' farts and call it podcasting. Then again, it might be more interesting than a lot of podcasts already out there...

  2. Burgle their phones. by CyricZ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Soon enough people will shoot the birds, steal their phones, and then sell those phones.

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  3. Blog? by Eightyford · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why would anyone use a word like "blog" when it is not needed. Especially in this case where it makes no friggen sense.

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  4. It could very well be considered blogging. by CyricZ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It depends what you define "blogging" as. Do you consider the frequent posting of short blurbs of information to a publically-accessible web site to be blogging? If so, then this would indeed qualify as blogging.

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    1. Re:It could very well be considered blogging. by kfg · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I'm going to go out on a limb here and, even without reading the article, assert that the pigeons themselves are not "posting short blurbs of information" anywhere.

      And that, my friend, is why you should RTFA.

      KFG