geomob meetup - alfie dennen deck
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A deck used as presentation counterpoint at the 2nd #geomob meetup in London.TRANSCRIPT
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Alfie Dennen
http://agit8.org.ukhttp://twitter.com/alfie
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Things I’m going to talk about
Games andCo-opetition
John HarrisonAnd time-keeping
People in fields at midnight
Lockerbie Geoglyphs
Geomedia
Networkedactivism
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Sundial Waterclock
Astronomical Clock
Network Time Protocol
Marine Chronometer
Atomic TimeClock of the Long Now
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John Harrison: Father of the modern age (IMHO)
John Harrison: Big Genius
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Stoppedclocks.com• An ongoing document of all the stopped
public clocks in the UK• Each post is geo-located creating a geo-
database• Each post is information and media rich
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What is the question?• Hidden on 43 blogs
across the web were 43 latitude and longitudinal locations
• The main site contained cryptic clues to lead searchers to these blogs
• Once solved, the player travelled to the specified location to hunt for the hidden object
• The object would then provide the final instructions for uploading to the site
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What is the question players...
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By using map markers laid out in a pattern which “connect-the dots-style” drew an image, we created a new form of online art
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Britglyph: The worlds largest work of art
• 61 exact locations span the country, creating an image of a watch
• Players travel to their closest marker with a rock
• They take a photo of themselves + the rock
• They send this image in to the site with location information
• As locations are received, markers are ‘claimed’
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Britglyph players...
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Standing in a field at Midnight
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The DNA of media is location.Geo information is not the Deus Ex Machina for sorting media on the web... But it comes close...
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So what does all this mean?
• Using game systems to encourage mass tagging of the world seems to work
• Co-opetition is an engagement driver that is ideal for networked projects
• The power to get someone to stand in a field at midnight is quite an awesome one
• What are the implications for Geomedia projects?
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Transformative power
Where the web, mobile, and gaming meet is theFulcrum on which we will change the world
Alfie Dennenhttp://agit8.org.ukhttp://twitter.com/alfie