Know Your Place:

"The idea is to bypass direct ISP connectivity through nodes which maximise bandwidth and allow others to use it over a larger area. Headmap looks forward (perhaps a little too idealistically) to a time when wireless internet capability will be provided by cities just as street lights are provided now."

This is one thing that i've always been adamant about. With free wifi the possibilities of spreading knowledge and morphing communication is infinite. I was really hoping the Earthnet / Google proposal would go through. [sources here & here]

"Even more prosaically, there are ideas like phoning your keys to find out where they are. On a visual level, there is the use of signs and symbols, with cycle couriers perhaps offering their short-cut route maps to people new to an area, or more emotionally, a 'tag' on a park bench or a piece of pavement marking it as the place of an event of importance — a first kiss, perhaps, or a religious epiphany. So far, so harmless. But, human nature being as it is, not everyone will want to use their spatialised computing capacity in this way."

I completely love the ideas presented here, however it could create a problem with falsifying tags. As i'm sure most of you have noted (with much annoyance, i'm sure) not everyone tags things properly, or in fact, missuses them. Although this creates a problem, i believe a committee to prevent such tagging could be formed, and if possible the property "owner" of that space could choose to delete such tagging or to allow it to stay (such as blog comments). Because we all know there are some really stupid, pointless comments out there. Youtube is a prime example (haha, srsly, check out the link guys, don't be lazy).


Headmap Manifesto:
[too much info; to be continued]