Superdistribution and Superlocalisation...

Posted July 27, 2003 9:36 PM.

So I did my talk yesterday at EUvolt and I think it went OK. The paper was a bit of a Frankenstein's monster of components of older papers glued together with liberal smatterings of last-minute thought-goo - but I think it hangs together ok. I've stuck a block of my introductory thoughts on the front as a series of rather wordy slides, because the paper only makes limited sense without them. They're all a bit woolly and half-formed and really the whole thing could do with a loads more spit and polish, but I figured it's best to get the damn thing out there for people to look at rather than leaving it stuck on my computer forever. So here it is: What's next: Superdistributed and Superlocalised communities...

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It was more than okay. A huge chunk of the conversations I was involved in after you left were about how good your talk was, oh... and how fast it was! Thanks again for coming along to speak, very much appreciated.

→ Posted by: Garrett Coakley at July 28, 2003 11:07 AM

Exactly as Garrett said, it was a fantastic talk, one of the highlights of the day..how the hell did you get all that out so fast?

I think one of the only reasons I managed to keep up was from being a daily reader of plasticbag beforehand.
(Didn't get a chance to talk about it, as I was busy getting food and filling back up on caffeine.)

→ Posted by: Wesley Mason at July 28, 2003 2:46 PM

Tom, your talk was superb, and yes... fast! I loved the more academic approach you employed, substantiating what you said with good illustrations and examples you have obviously thought hard about. I am normally very cynical about new media talks as they are usually just a pop for someones business interests (like the others were) but you did not suggest that at all... great stuff

→ Posted by: Daniel Fascia at July 29, 2003 11:42 AM

Tom, unfortunately, I had to miss your presentation to look after my son (and allow my wife - the GIS analyst - to hear it). I may therefore have missed whether you'd seen/referenced http://geourl.org . Essentially, you geocode your page/blog/site by adding a long/lat-based 'ICBM' meta-tag to the page, and it then constructs a list of the nearest similarly geocoded pages: http://geourl.org/near/?p=http://easyweb.co.uk/notes
It seems to me that this exemplifies both superlocalised and superdistributed communities, without having to have the content hosted by a centralised service.

→ Posted by: Martin Burns at August 4, 2003 2:27 PM

The download of the presentation seems to be missing the content on slides 40-42.

→ Posted by: Martin Burns at August 4, 2003 2:29 PM

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