Tuesday, December 10, 2002

I originally had planned to blog the WAGz event in more detail, but the simple truth is I was too busy experiencing it to actively write about it. There was a great line by Bill Pullman in Lost Highway that goes something like 'I don't like video cameras.  I like to remember things they way I remember them, not necessarily the way they actually happened.' That's the way I feel about things.  I enjoy photography and video, but as art, not as a means to record events.  I prefer to experience an event through my own field of view, not that of a video or still camera.  And not necessarily the way it actually happened. 9:02:54 PM

Wireless Athens Georgia Zone is online There's a lot of energy here in Athens, GA tonight at the New Media Institute holds the official launch party for the wirless cloud they have created over the downtown area. The students have put together some interesting applications for the wireless network.  One, called NIMBUS, is basically a butt-simple (i.e. good!) location-based buddy system where one can register their location and what they are doing in the downtown area.  You can search for your buddies and see where they are. I've met some good folks this evening.  Lots of ideas for things that might be.  The only question I have is, what happens now?  A year from today, will anything have been accomplished?  Will anything be different?  I certainly hope so.  There is an enormous potential for this technology.  Both for good and evil.  Not so much in the wireless infrastructure itself, but for the connections that can be created between people and the places they inhabit.  As information becomes pervasive, as it becomes (to paraphrase Scott Shamp) something you take with you, rather than a destination you go to, and as location-based services become possible, our habitat is bound to change in a fundamental way.  It's all good. 6:55:40 PM