{"id":271,"date":"2006-08-11T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/08\/pimp-my-pigeon-gps-birds-over-san-jose.html"},"modified":"2006-08-11T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T15:08:07","slug":"pimp_my_pigeon_gps_birds_over_san_jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/11\/pimp_my_pigeon_gps_birds_over_san_jose\/","title":{"rendered":"Pimp My Pigeon: GPS birds over San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8220;This is the strangest life I&#8217;ve ever known&#8230;&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\nFirst the Onion&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/33930\">parody of razor featuritis<\/a> becomes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bwdaily\/dnflash\/sep2005\/nf20050915_1654_db035.htm\">reality<\/a>; then San Jose starts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanjosesemaphore.org\/intro.htm\">getting kind of cool<\/a>; and now the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2005\/11\/jack_naylor_jan.html\">digitally instrumented pigeon<\/a> concept has come to pass.  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/1606-2_3-6104045.html?tag=nl.e433\">According to C|NET<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Several pigeons, equipped with pollution measurement and GPS devices, were released at the ZeroOne Festival in San Jose, Calif., on Aug. 8. The birds&#8230; will be feeding data to the site via SMS. The data provides the location, carbon-monoxide levels and identification for each bird.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full, insane details at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pigeonblog.mapyourcity.net\">PigeonBlog<\/a>.  (And if the pigeons start actually blogging, I&#8217;m headed to a shack in Montana&#8230;)<br \/>\nPS&#8211;Hopefully the birds will not be immolated by <a href=\"http:\/\/srl.org\/shows\/sanjose\/\" \/>large, fire-breathing machines<\/a> set to prowl the city tonight.  <i>Curiouser &amp; curiouser<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is the strangest life I&#8217;ve ever known&#8230;&#8221; First the Onion&#8217;s parody of razor featuritis becomes reality; then San Jose starts getting kind of cool; and now the digitally instrumented pigeon concept has come to pass. According to C|NET, &#8220;Several pigeons, equipped with pollution measurement and GPS devices, were released at the ZeroOne Festival in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}