Thanks, Catherine, for looping us back to the original purpose of this thread. I would like to apply for one of the "Paleo" slots on the Where panel. I submit as credentials 41 years experience with mapping on computers, going back to the first "DIME" files in New Haven. I'm 67 years old which puts me squarely in "paleo" territory. I have been to most of the Where 2.0 meetings and have puzzled over the neogeography phenomenon for a while. I may have been one of the first users of the term "paleogeographer", at dinner with the founders of ETAK during the June 2006 Where 2.0 meeting. (Me: "what does 'neogeographer' mean, anyway". Marv White: "well, 'neo' means 'new' so it's 'new geographer'. Me: "oh, so that makes me a 'paleogeographer', right?") I give a lot of keynote talks at state GIS conferences, and my stump speech for the past year has been about "Neogeography and the Google Earth Revolution". (I know it's not just Google, but the "Microsoft Live Local Beta Virtual Earth Revolution" is too much of a mouthful.) My intent in these talks is to present two observations: 1) The "Google Earth Revolution" -- or Neogeography -- is as revolutionary as was GIS: the means to migrate spatial knowledge from atoms to bits. 2) Neogeography is *FUN* and we Paleo-GIS-nerds need to lighten up, untuck our shirts, and enjoy the revolution! I don't see Neo/Paleo as divisive. There has been a second cartographic revolution and it's great for all of us. I would be honored to serve on your panel, Renee. BTW, I'll also be at AAG and am on Andy Smith's panel: "Concepts, Tools and Applications: The Rise of Neogeography". My presentation is #90035824, "Neogeography and Crowdsourcing: the View from a Walled Garden" I think I'm also a discussant for Mike Goodchild's plenary on crowdsourcing. I sure hope they don't make any of those AAG sessions concurrent. ****** Don Cooke, Chief Scientist, Tele Atlas ****************
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