Egypt
- Photos Of The Western Desert
The Western Desert - Roads to Gilf Kebir (photos by Yarko Kobylecky) Some lovely photographs of Dakhleh Oasis, the Gilf Kebir and other Western Desert locations. The photographs are highly saturated and the contrast is very high, so these are more...
- Online Resource: Inora
International Newsletter on Rock Art For anyone interested in rock art, Egyptian or otherwise, it may be worth checking out the above INORA page. The newsletter is available to download free of charge in PDF format. The most recent issue showing on the...
- Travel: The Gilf Kebir
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/793/tr1.htmAn article about the scenery and rock art of the Gilf Kebir: "Rock art is the oldest form of art left by the human race. While few countries are blessed with samples of such art, Egypt enjoys a handful of them....
- Gilf Kebir Feature
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/gilfkebir1.htm The Tour Egypt website has been updated this week with a feature on the Gilf Kebir, by Allan Watson. The Gilf Kebir is in one of the driest areas of the world - rainfall is so meagre that it cannot...
- Predynastic Website Updated
www.predynastic.com For those of you who have been asking me when I am going to get around to updating my Predynastic website, the good news is that I'm doing it. I've updated several pages today with new content, and I will continue to update...
Egypt
Gilf Kebir on Kosmix content aggregation website
Kosmix
It cannot be any surprise that I've managed to find yet another excuse for posting about the Gilf Kebir AND managed to combine it with a bit of web tech.
The above page is on a site called Kosmix, which currently describes itself as "Beta-ish" and describes itself as follows: "Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevent videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix’s categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web. . . . At our core is a sophisticated categorization engine that scours billions of Web pages and structured data points to aggregate, categorize, and return content specifically related to a user's query. Kosmix automatically arranges each set of results into a magazine-style topic page, giving you a mix of immersive content and new connections."
The topic in this case, Gilf Kebir, is presented on a single page but consists of a number of different websites, photos and video clips, all focusing on the area. Content is taken from Wikipedia, Yahoo! Images, YouTube, Flickr, Truveo and elsewhere to assemble what is almost a "portal" page for Gilf Kebir content. Related content is also displayed on the same page.
Potentially, this could be a very useful resource for travellers and information seekers.
It cannot be any surprise that I've managed to find yet another excuse for posting about the Gilf Kebir AND managed to combine it with a bit of web tech.
The above page is on a site called Kosmix, which currently describes itself as "Beta-ish" and describes itself as follows: "Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevent videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix’s categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web. . . . At our core is a sophisticated categorization engine that scours billions of Web pages and structured data points to aggregate, categorize, and return content specifically related to a user's query. Kosmix automatically arranges each set of results into a magazine-style topic page, giving you a mix of immersive content and new connections."
The topic in this case, Gilf Kebir, is presented on a single page but consists of a number of different websites, photos and video clips, all focusing on the area. Content is taken from Wikipedia, Yahoo! Images, YouTube, Flickr, Truveo and elsewhere to assemble what is almost a "portal" page for Gilf Kebir content. Related content is also displayed on the same page.
Potentially, this could be a very useful resource for travellers and information seekers.
- Photos Of The Western Desert
The Western Desert - Roads to Gilf Kebir (photos by Yarko Kobylecky) Some lovely photographs of Dakhleh Oasis, the Gilf Kebir and other Western Desert locations. The photographs are highly saturated and the contrast is very high, so these are more...
- Online Resource: Inora
International Newsletter on Rock Art For anyone interested in rock art, Egyptian or otherwise, it may be worth checking out the above INORA page. The newsletter is available to download free of charge in PDF format. The most recent issue showing on the...
- Travel: The Gilf Kebir
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/793/tr1.htmAn article about the scenery and rock art of the Gilf Kebir: "Rock art is the oldest form of art left by the human race. While few countries are blessed with samples of such art, Egypt enjoys a handful of them....
- Gilf Kebir Feature
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/gilfkebir1.htm The Tour Egypt website has been updated this week with a feature on the Gilf Kebir, by Allan Watson. The Gilf Kebir is in one of the driest areas of the world - rainfall is so meagre that it cannot...
- Predynastic Website Updated
www.predynastic.com For those of you who have been asking me when I am going to get around to updating my Predynastic website, the good news is that I'm doing it. I've updated several pages today with new content, and I will continue to update...