Memoz
\"Spatial weblogging\"
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BlogTalk 2008

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Memoz: Spatial webpublishing

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Memoz
texts
images
videos
animations
yellow \"stickers\"
maps
All presented in a sclable interface
where objects can be placed freely

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Memoz
Memory organizer
in tribute to Vannevar Bush's memex
memory extender

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Nettet
Information overflow
Et sted vi går til ...
... eller et sted vi er?
or potential?

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let's hold on to the
potential for learning
but how to organize online information
and make it (re)findable

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Parts of the solution are
searchengines
tagging-services
social networks
wikis
and weblogs
etc

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Vannevar Bush (1945)
Selection by association,
rather than indexing
trail blazers
those who find delight in the task of
establishing useful trails through the
enormous mass of the common record

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What do
trails look like
on the Web?

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Most existing tools organize
information
in topics and sequences
they can be linked and shared
but follow atextual logic
where one thing follows the other...

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images are different

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Battle between Carnival and Lent - Pieter Bruegel

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Space, place and memory
Ars memoriae - the art of memory
Giulio Camillo Delmino
L'idea del Theatro (1550)
Mapping content in a virtual space
located in recognizable places

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weblogs organize information
temporally

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how does temporality
support mental maps?

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A mental map refer to
an individual perception
of an environment
The concept of mental maps have been
widely used to think about navigation in
hypertexts.

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The City Image
Paths
forms a network of minor routes, mostly used by
those who have local knowledge
Districts
areas that share some characteristics that are
easily identified
Edges
lines that divides districts
Landmarks
objects that can be used as points of reference
Nodes
places of a break in transportation, a crossing or
convergence of paths
Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City , 1960

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Story and places
As far as I'm concerned, the loss of place is a lost quality
in movies. It comes with a loss of reality, a loss of
identity.
Maybe it is a European distinction to have more of a
sense of place. Of course, there are more borders, more
languages, more national identities.
Wim Wenders
http://www.dga.org/news/v28_4/craft_wendersplaces.php3

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Variation of mindmaps
Content structured in space
http://www2.skolenettet.no/journalist/5.htm
http://www.steinbo-dialog.no/dialog4.asp http://piczo.com

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The Geoweb

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Virtual spaces

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memory
spatial
organizing

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Example: Film history

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Example: Working with text

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Example: Places along the Berlin wall

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Example: Analysing The Nightwatch

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Example: The world's environment

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Memoz - movable and scalable
–––Any object can
be placed
freely
Navigator –––––––––––––––––––

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Memoz - add text, images, animations, videos and maps

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Memoz - media archive
Mediearkiv

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Memoz - allow comments

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Memoz - using Google maps
Reference to
KML-files

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That's nice,
but is this blogging?

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Jörn Barger (1997)
\"... a weblogger
(sometimes called a blogger or a pre-surfer)
logs all the other
webpages she finds
interesting.\"

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Arguably the weblog's most important features are
usability, the personal voice, and the hypertextual
connetions to, and feedback from other publicists.
Chronological sequencing of posts is a technical feature!
One can speak about weblogging even
without sequencing.
From this follows that
spatial weblogging makes sense

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Torah_and_jad.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/2102790208/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Torah_and_jad.jpg
http://www.dga.org/news/v28_4/craft_wendersplaces.php3