On 13/06/2008, at 5:02 AM, R E Sieber wrote: > Frankly, I find their winning entries uninspiring in terms of new > technologies
Imagine you're there with them, and you are trying to convey that to them. They're all excited and impressed by their technology, and you're sitting there saying "it's really not that good". What kind of reaction do you think you'd get, and do you think that people would be listening to you? I am sitting here with the same opinion about the stuff that is being done here. I frankly just find any of this GIS, Twitter, and overlay maps stuff to be derivative, uninspiring and wish that we could come up with something better with the new resources that we all have compared to the 1960's. The reaction that I get from expressing this viewpoint in here is the same as you would get for expressing your opinion at the NSF. We're both right, and it gets both of us nowhere (despite being all about finding where!). The challenge is to stop piddling around with yet another mashup, and to start considering some of the wider questions that apply to efficiency of collaboration, to boost our capability to create new things. While we are unaugmented, the solutions that we can think of will always be limited by our limitations. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
