What an interesting day: thanks to Cory (himself something of a fan) my The System of the World @ The Tower of London Flickr set got BoingBoing’d. Woo!
Already there are several more photos tagged with baroquecyclelondon from Flickr user Tarquin Binery, and glenelg has tagged photos of The Hague (which makes an appearance in Quicksilver) with baroquecycle.
But perhaps it’s easier to keep track of all this in a group? The baroquecycle group should do nicely! It’s a public group so anyone can join and post pictures, the more the merrier.
And there’s more! While I’ve been typing this, nairb1 has been establishing the latitude and longitude of each photo to allow them to be geotagged and, I think, sucked into Google Earth somehow. Potentially, there might be some way to visually connect the dots of Stephenson’s London…
To wrap up, here’s a snippet from Warren Ellis‘ latest column:
If you also glean from this that a reverse-engineering of sorts is possible: that a print-first book can generate its own interweb shadow structure, like, for instance, a wiki… well, that would be kind of interesting, wouldn’t it? That an URL printed on the back of a book, when typed into your browser, could take you to a place that provides an entirely new dimension to the work… that could be the eventual optimum way in which a print object interacts with the internet.
Of course, the Quicksilver Metaweb is exactly that sort of added functionality – especially given that it can auto-generate a PDF of the current annotations to form a handy printout – but I’d certainly like to see how far this can go, too.
