Hi, Remote Mom! -- Participatory Geosensing
Participatory media -- the ability of ordinary people to engage with, create, and distribute media -- is an ever-growing trend.
I was reminded this week of a curious variant, which might be called participatory geosensing: deliberately using remote-sensing infrastructure to pursue one's own personal goals.
- A geospatial artist in Washington DC has put a "no war" message on his roof, spelled out in brick. (He will need some pretty high-resolution sensing, as the letters are only 1 or 2 bricks wide.)
- A blogger on the Google Earth blog claims that he has "been laying on my lawn for the last three weeks straight without moving. I hope that Google satellites will take pictures of me and everyone will vote it to be one of the seven wonders of the world," the Washington Post reports.
As for me, I wish to remain invisible at one-meter resolution.
Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007
by
Josh Calder
in Technology, Media, Transparency
Josh Calder
in Technology, Media, Transparency
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