André Lemos is Associate Professor, Faculty of Communication, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. PhD in Sociology, Sorbonne (1995), Visiting Scholar University of Alberta and McGill University, Canada (2007-2008). Coordinator of Cybercity Research Group (UFBa/CNPq) and Researcher level 1 at CNPq. Member of Prix Ars Electronica, Wi. Journal of Mobile Media and Canadian Journal of Communication Board. This Carnet is online since March 1st, 2001.
Temos insistido na popularização de mapas e croquis, como discutimos em outro post. Embora essa notícia não seja nova, o post da Wired, Map Mashups Get Personal, mostra bem esse processo. Trechos do texto:
"A women named 'Paiges' recalls hearing the band Portishead for the first time at a spot in New York's Upper West Side, while she was meeting a man with whom she was having a torrid affair. 'I was in NYC, your wife was out of town,' she writes. "We were in the bathroom and Portishead was playing. I remember being terrified that we would get caught." She bought the album on her way home, and 12 years later still associates it with seeing her lover in that place.
That intimate memory isn't locked in a diary or shared on a blog. It's pinned to a spot near the intersection of West End Avenue and 104th Street on a new and growing community site called Platial that's spreading a decidedly personal layer of geographic data atop the familiar terrain of online mapping.
Platial provides a home for people who love quirky geographical information or just want to mark the locations that have meaning to them. Sign up for a free account, and you can start building and sharing personalized maps, complete with place markers, tags and descriptions of each spot. Collaborate on them with your buddies, or keep them to yourself.(...)"
Essa é boa para afagos no ego e para monitorar a sua popularidade no ciberespaço.
Post do information aesthetics mostra o "Google hits vanity ring". O anel mostra o número de hits de seu nome na máquina de busca de Montain View. Cada vez que ele é colocado no dock, ele atualiza os dados.
Utilidade? Nenhuma, logo, como dizia um locutor me programa da televisão francesa, totalmente imprescindível!
"an electronic ring that shows the number of Google hits when searching for the name of the person who wears it. every night, when the ring is inserted into its docking station, the ring is reloaded & updated to the objective popularity & importance measure of one's personality."
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