Yay, it’s Where 2.0 time again, which means heading off inordinately early in the morning. Last year was at Millbrae …
… this year San Jose. Where [badum] I’m hoping to catch-up with the many interesting people who make the yearly pilgrimage. Somehow this seems to happen via each of our Profile Pages (only slightly edited from last year) or, most likely, in the bar :) I’m around Tuesday and Thursday, but not Wednesday, fwiw.
I’m not, as it happens, presenting this year due to (back then upcoming) entertaining timing issues ;) but the wonderful Aaron Straup Cope is with a live performance of The Shape of Alpha…
History and geography remain powerful anchors through which we orient ourselves to our communities and the world at large. This is reflected in the practice and evolution of story-telling, the interpretation and naming of place and the disputes that sometimes follow. As locative technologies play an increasingly important role in all aspects of daily life so too will the ability to interpret and contextualize the abundance of data produced in the precise but distant language of machines.
… which I’m make super-extra-special effort to go and see. I’m also going to get my hands dirty with Maps from Scratch: Online Maps from the Ground Up, because maps are fun!
Hopefully see you there, assuming I don’t get lost on the way.
Places page: Millbrae, featured photo; How to Not Meet Girlz by cstoller.
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