My new blog is trying to catch up with my new life. To that end, let me put up a belated link to my article on WiFi.Bedouin in Issue 2 of the online journal, Vectors., which is chock-full of other fascinating articles. I recommend you toast some marshmallows and settle in for some leisurely browsing.

The following are my remarks on Michael Liebhold’s talk on The Geospatial Web, capture in my notes.

Service Ecologies and The Geospatial Web

Marc got me thinking about possibly inserting a project into the ISEA2006 Interactive City event. This came up during responses to the talk I gave at the Art Center Nabi Workshop on Urban Play and Locative Media, which I blogged about herein.

Mapping provides a unique way to create new ways of imagining the world and perhaps new ways of living within it. Such is the power of one of the canonical representational practices.

Jason Gilmore publishes a developer-oriented article on how to combine geocoded census data with Google’s Map API. It uses Perl and some PHP hooks. Nice “how-to” piece.

Mimi Ito organized a series of panels at this year’s 4S conference (Society for the Social Studies of Science), held in Pasadena. I proposed a paper on Locative Media that I had titled Landscape as Interface: How Creative Uses of the Global Positioning System Enable Location Aware Media. I didn’t have much of an ide…

The New York Times writes another nugget on the increasingly knitted worlds of film (should I say, celluloid film?) and video game creative production. As electronic games become a candidate (of many possibilities) for the future of visual story telling, drawing upon the various models of production becomes a hot to…

I’m almost afraid to enter a new design idiom into my tool chest, but this one came up during Aram Armstrong’s presentation during the Nabi Workshop. It’s probably old hat to many of you out there, and I have to say that I was somewhat hopped up on the Information Design and Experience Design stuff. (One of my mento…