new york new york, so good i'll visit it twice

presentation days seem to be coming around a bit too often for my liking at the moment. steve, lou and i gave our presentation on locative media this morning, as part of simon's ccs module. it went pretty well, although i'd had a hard time researching the background and history of the discipline, as its so new various bodies are still defining the standards! i guess simon enjoyed it, by all accounts he's a bit of a locative media don, so the subject's pretty close to his heart.

locative media refers to location-specific digital content, and is very interesting from a practical perspective, with current applications including: google maps, geojogging, locative-txtmsg content and WAP; however the academic aspect of it barely exists, let alone offers anything of interest. so instead i'm going to write my contemporary and contextual studies essay on possibly the best website in the world: flickr. i've used the site for almost a year now, and am fascinated on how it manages to combine photo-sharing, social networking, tagging, web applications, flash, AJAX, email, blogging, moblogging, photoblogging and a billion other cool technologies that are revolutionising the internet at the moment.

and now, the grandest of news:

we're going to new york city baby, yeh! i've visited nyc once before, but only for 12hrs during a stopover, so the chance to go for a week for £450 is awesome! there's eight of us going: moi, ray, jack, joe, steve, alicks, lou and liz - its soo exciting! hopefully, we'll be flying out of bristol too - which means drinks & munchies at my house the night before ;)

an aspect of social networking websites which fascinates me is real-world meetups: combining virtual friendships and shared interests with physical reality. so i reckon it would be pretty cool to meet up with some nyc-based music photographers from flickr while i'm out there :)