Chris Heathcote presented an interesting talk at ETCON recently, and we shared a very cramped bench in front of the baying mob at ConConUK last week. Chris bravely attempted to convey some content and ideas in 5 minutes, whereas I took the altogether easier route of laughing at geeks who thought they knew about international politics
Anyway, for those who were not in that particular 4m x 4m space at the time, Chris has published his ideas on his weblog. Essentially, he suggests that physical barcodes can hold RDF information about its own location, which means that barcode reading phones or other devices can get location data from the barcode. Chris’s idea is a call to arms for flyposters everywhere to shift to small barcode stickers that could contain (or link to via a URL) everything we need to know about a place or an event ..
… or is he just an agent for our robot overlords, with a mission to provide better geo-data than our confusing street signs currently offer?