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	Get air quality by SMS

geekaren

6-12-2007 8:58 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d89bff8c-3b6e-4e4c-ad0f-e5528573eacb/50C310FD-B5C8-4BC5-BA4B-89F42A71EDD5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/11/air_quality_by_sms.html" href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/11/air_quality_by_sms.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.boingboing.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/11/air_quality_by_sms.html"><A href="http://www.paulos.net/">Eric Paulos</A> of Intel Research has launched an SMS system for mobile phone users in the US to learn about the quality of the air around them. Called Ergo, the system uses data from the US Environmental Protection Agency's <A href="http://airnow.gov/">airnow.gov</A> site and <A href="http://weather.weathrbug.com/">Weatherbug.com</A>. The number to text is 415.624.6678 and here's a a summary of the commands:
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<IMG width="149" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="200" border="1" align="left" alt=" Experiments Ergo Images Measurement1" src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/_Experiments_Ergo_Images_measurement1.jpg" />
If you text...</DIV>
* a 5 digit zip code = you receive the most recent air quality reports for that area (ex. <STRONG>94704</STRONG>)
* the word <STRONG>worst</STRONG> = you receive the worst three locations in the US as currently reported (ex. <STRONG>worst</STRONG>)
* <STRONG>daily zip time</STRONG> = you receive a report every day at the specified time for the given zip code.</BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/50C310FD-B5C8-4BC5-BA4B-89F42A71EDD5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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