I’ve just been contacted by Betsy Kimak who works as an independent web designer out of Denver and who had nice things to say about this blog. Betsy is a self-confessed arenophile - as she describes herself:
I’ve always liked dirt. I was one of those kids who played with bugs, searched for fossils, buried things in the backyard, collected rocks, and panned for gold. I’m not a geologist, but I am a bit of a science geek who has an unhealthy relationship with sand. I suppose that’s what happens when a Florida baby is plucked from beach bliss and carried off to a geologically-fascinating, but landlocked state.
Betsy drew my attention to her sandy website, http://www.sandrific.com/. She is building a sand collection, and has developed a very satisfying and accessible way of displaying this via a Google Maps mashup (see the screenshot above): simply click on the location for images of the sand, the place, and further information.
I remember that a while ago there was a discussion with Robert Huber at Stratigraphy.net on ways of linking and compiling geoblogosphere posted images and content with global locations. Now I am technically fairly hopeless, and am not quite sure how to mash things up, but clearly Betsy has this well in-hand, and this might be worth some further thought; she wrote about the process in her blog, http://www.umaitech.com/cms/?p=41. Her sandrific blog is now listed in my blogroll.
I should also note that Sandrific is up for a Webby People’s Voice Award - see http://pv.webbyawards.com/ for more information and the opportunity to vote. And Betsy is looking to populate the map - any arenaceous samples out there?
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