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July 26, 2006
On the Internet, No One Knows You're a Pigeon
Far be it from us to make fun of a good cause, but this is too good to pass up. A University of California assistant professor, Beatriz da Costa, is setting up the Internet’s first blog written by…birds. Pigeons, to be precise. She plans to release 20 pigeons wearing “tiny” backpacks containing pollution-measuring devices into the San Jose skies during the 9-day conference of Inter-Society for the Electronics Arts conference. The pigeon packs will also be equipped with transmitters that will ship the data to the…Pigeon Blog.
But that’s not the best part. This endeavor, aimed at helping develop new ways of measuring air quality, is also, inexplicably, billed as a “cutting-edge art project.” (Tip to SmartMobs).
Posted by Cynthia Brumfield at July 26, 2006 06:51 PM
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