Mapping Hacks

I wrote an article as part of a “Neogeography” special feature for Geoconnexions Magazine last spring, and ran way over the word count. The spirit of which is in this paragraph,
A distinction between “professional” and “amateur” is not so important…
As in politics, “the new” and “the old” are marketed at the expense of one another […]

I enjoyed giving a braindump yesterday to the placemap workshop that Matthew Hockenberry is running at the MIT media lab. I decided to talk without slides or notes, but wing it using a del.icio.us linkdump made for the placemap workshop; this turned out to be a good decision, as my laptop hard drive died horribly […]