Allen Smith, who works for WHERE, contacted me about my last post with an interesting corrective:
“I always thought about recent phone technology as allowing the
internet to come out into the world and overlay it with information, I
never thought of it the other way around, “extending the idea and
functionality of location into the network.”
I agree that […]

Categories: placeofmedia · city · play · phones · net-locality

Location is the next frontier in computing. The company uLocate has announced a competition for developers to make location-based widgets. uLocate’s new location-widget feature, called simply Where, is essentially a collection of little programs that mash-up data from the Internet with a user’s location. And this competition is intended to facilitate the […]

Categories: placeofmedia · city · play · phones · net-locality

Everything is going full speed ahead. The Boston Redevelopment Authority has agreed to fund the first phase of the Hub2 program. They’re going to pay for student tuition, evaluation, TA support and design. It’s great news and we’re thrilled that they’ve taken a chance on this experimental program. Now that the […]

Categories: placeofmedia · boston · citygovernment · SecondLife · phones · hub2 · gene_koo · civic_engagement

As we consider our theoretical justification for using Second Life to facilitate civic engagement, we’ve come up with the notion of placeworlds. Below is a sketch of the concept:
Place is experienced space. It is what happens when geographic space takes on meaning of any sort – as an object of memory, or desire, […]

Categories: placeofmedia · boston · SecondLife · city · hub2 · civic_engagement