The Ann Arbor Chronicle » real-time http://annarborchronicle.com it's like being there Sun, 27 May 2012 19:00:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Telephony on a Teeter Totter http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/01/15/telephony-on-a-teeter-totter/ http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/01/15/telephony-on-a-teeter-totter/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:35:46 +0000 HD http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=11997 On Tuesday of this week, the totter returned to action after a long period of inactivity. We reprised a theme with some previous history on the totter: real-time parking data. This time around, the live-data feed on parking space availability, which is streamed to the web by Ann Arbor’s Downtown Development Authority, has been piped into a telephone system.

The guy who did that: Fred Posner.

He doesn’t work for the city of Ann Arbor, the Downtown Development Authority, or Republic Parking. To get a little insight into what led him to undertake such a project, and if you want the number to call, you’re going to have to read Fred’s Talk. [Here's documentation on how he accomplished the data-to-telephone part.]

Apologies for the illegible titles in the video. The whole thing lasts less than a minute, and is, I think, worth suffering through the awful titles.

[Read the Talk]

[Editor's note: HD is "Homeless Dave, a.k.a. Dave Askins, editor of The Ann Arbor Chronicle.]

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