Googlenation

[sigma7]

When doing some research with a colleague on the ethics of putting police scanners live and streaming on the Internet (me: "I'm all for transparency, but isn't that just asking for a catastrophe?"), I showed her how we can track down an address and see it using Google Street View. My colleague was familiar with Google Maps, but hadn't seen Google Street View before.

There needs to be a term for that moment when you realize what Street View is capable of showing (say sunbathing girls and crimes in progress), and it just blows your mind and causes you to shout "Oh my God!" The Germans probably have a word for it already, but it's probably fifty thousand letters and two vowels long.

And unlike what I managed to convince another cow-orker of, Street View is not updated live. Imagining the bandwidth that would require cowered me.

Comments

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Nonsense. It would have at least seven vowels.