Comments for Geoplaced Knowledge

Comment on #1: Spaces by Steve Hansen

Steve Hansen — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:10:27 +0000

Best wishes. Can’t wait to read the essays and the biblio is great.

There is always the classic if you want to get social-sciency. Imagined Communities by Ben Anderson

Comment on Not all rangers have beards by Chris

Chris — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:26:37 +0000

Thanks Inger! Do you think they’d be interested in this? I can’t say I’ve spent much time on the official blog!

Comment on Not all rangers have beards by thesiswhisperer

thesiswhisperer — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:36:53 +0000

Awesome – I’m impressed! Why don’t you submit it to the folks that run the rmit blog? They might be interested to hear about your research…

Comment on Nokia Lenses by Chris

Chris — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:17:22 +0000

I suppose this is a similar concept to twitter lists – except the powerful thing is that it includes all streams (including those traditionally locked into your phone – voice mail and SMS).

It still requires people curate their own “lenses”, but it’d be interesting to think about what you could do when you combine a sense of time + location with that curation ability.

Comment on Nokia Lenses by Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:55:02 +0000

I think a Twitter/whatever client that followed topical people at relevant times would be cool. I guess that is kind of what this is.

I don’t want to “follow” people or information streams forever, I want all the authoritative information on topical local and topic based events and then I sually don’t want to hear from those sources again.

Comment on Context: awareness vs sensitivity by Matt

Matt — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:04:14 +0000

My original comment was going to be, “What’s the point?”. Even if technology could figure out the context, what’s it going to do with the information?

But then I realized – it’ll serve up context-sensitive ads. Maybe there is a use after all.

Comment on The old with the new by Chris

Chris — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:25:50 +0000

I forgot to add that in other countries (mainly Japan, as far as I know), QR codes are -the- standard for linking to mobile content. The public is well trained in their use for everything from purchasing drinks to entering competitions, and all local handsets have built in readers – which I think is one of the main barriers here. You have to manually install a reader on most phones available.

They are still just a visual version of bit.ly though (in most cases) – the reasons they took off in Japan are probably many and varied, but; they’ve had a sizeable WAP usage for a decade or more, people read a lot of content on their phones there, and typing in a URL on a phone is not funnest experience…

There’s still room for them, but they need much closer integration with the phones here before they took off.

Comment on The old with the new by Chris

Chris — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:13:26 +0000

In Australia, I highly doubt that many people know what they are and don’t think they add much value, seeing as though their typical usage is as a visual URL shortener. I also think any curiosity people fee towards them may have been taken out of the equation by the fact they’re mostly only used on advertising in bus stops.

I’d like to check back on this one though – it’s at the Old Melbourne Gaol, and I can possibly see them used as triggers for some audio descriptions of the areas they’re in, the significance, etc.

To sum up: it’s probably just another way for people to learn about Ned Kelly.

Comment on The old with the new by Daniel Szuc

Daniel Szuc — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:25:42 +0000

Very nice but when people see this, does it mean anything to them. What do they do next? What will it provide? Is it a standard that will scale?

rgds,
Dan

Comment on Visualisation documentary by Chris

Chris — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:30:49 +0000

One of the things I like in that video is the point that we shouldn’t loose sight of the message behind the sexy visuals. It seems a lot of infographics and visualisations are aesthetically pleasing but not very communicative!