Spatial isn’t Special « Urban Mining. On Monday I gave a talk at a workshop in Edinburgh hosted by the Association for Geographic Information of Scotland.
The workshop was titled “Apps, INSPIRE, and the New Economy” and took place at the British Geological Survey near Edinburgh University. It’s description began like this: Subway Napster for the London Tube: undersound. Undersound is a new project to distribute music around the London Underground trains.
Users can upload songs from their collections to centralized distribution points, and download tracks left by other users. The system keeps tack of which tracks came from what station –this is a public-transit version of the “Traffic Napster” that appears in my novel, Eastern Standard Tribe. Collective Intelligence 2012.
Social Cities of Tomorrow » International conference 17 February 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Neogeography – towards a definition. Over the past day there has been a large discussion about “what is neogeography” in the geoblogosphere.
(more posts). It’s apparent that, given the quick and large-scale response to the original impetus, that this question has been brewing in the minds of many geo-types. There are many analogies to draw here – and typical to the geoworld they see their situation as newly evolved, yet the same thing has happened in other, less specialist realms for much longer.
Look at journalism vs. blogging, movies vs. television, or any number of other field that has had its identity questioned.