A special issue of Information, Communication and Society just hit the stands and it’s worth a mention here. Yeah, yeah, I have an article in it, but more importantly, it’s a fantastic collection of work on the topic of “Urban Informatics: Software, Cities, and the New Cartographies of Knowing Capitalism.” Here’s the […]

Categories: placeofmedia · surveillance · Media Theory · mediated urbanism · mobility · cities · maps · web 2.0 · ubiquitous computing

This essay, written by Kazys Varnelis and Anne Friedberg, is an introductory statement on the change role of place in network culture.  They break the work up into six sections: place (simultaneous spaces), mobile place (the rise of the tele-cocoon), real virtual worlds, the network and its sociospatial consequences, geospatial web and locative media, and […]

Categories: network · mediated urbanism · mobility · maps · web 2.0

This new feature from flickr just continues the trend towards emplacing data.  Geotagging is just another form of organizing data - using the world as file cabinet.  It takes the abstraction of maps, or what I’ve called metageography, and replaced it with a sense of locality.  It’s like always knowing where that scrap of paper […]

Categories: maps

There is nothing that can’t be tagged.  Don’t you forget it. 
Link: O’Reilly Radar > Digital camera   GPS = Flickr mapping heaven!.

Categories: maps

Instead of just the straight-down views that distant satellites
gather, a small company called Pictometry International has developed
an oblique-imaging, geo-spatial system to snap vast swaths of America’s
varied landscape at a 40-degree angle from a few thousand feet in the
air.

At the click of a mouse, its unique measuring software can dissect
the longitude, latitude, elevation and precise dimensions […]

Categories: maps

HBO is getting into the Google Mash-up game.  As a promotional tool for the new season of The Sopranos, you can view scences from the upcoming season plotted onto a map.  How is this fictional mapping different from the story mapping that is taking place in so much digital art?  Aren’t both dissecting narrative and […]

Categories: mediated urbanism · maps