Without wishing to labour the point, the latest issue of Nature has a nice piece by Declan Butler on "mashups", which mentions my iSpecies toy, and some more serious efforts by Donat Agosti and Norman Johnson, as well as Declan's own work on display avian flu records in Google Earth. I'm quoted as gushing:

'If you could pool data from every museum or lab in the world, "you could do amazing things", says Page.'

This is what happens when being interviewed by Nature goes to your head, as well as being distracted by trying to keep my four year old daughter occupied while on the phone to Declan ("Dad, I want a drink NOW"). Still, I stand by the sentiment. As an example, take a look at what Declan himslef managed to do with data on avian flu (http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=16).

Regards

Rod

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