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Citizen Monitors Posted by Steve Dietz on September 12, 2006 4:11 PM
AIR :: Area's Immediate Reading

AIR is a public, social experiment in which people are invited to use Preemptive Media's portable air monitoring devices to explore their neighborhoods and urban environments for pollution and fossil fuel burning hotspots.
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It will be interesting to see what kind of interface Preemptive Media presents to collate the data gathered by "citizen monitors," when the project goes live September 14.

Here is the map/visualization created for PigeonBlog, a separate but related project, which was presented at ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA2006 by Beatriz da Costa, one of the Preemptive Media collaborators.


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