Get Interactive YO!

Yesterday (16/10/09) I spent the whole day getting interactive. 

I started with our second task creating a Google map I didn’t have a Google account so first I set up an account and started to look at Google maps I had used Google maps before as I think the satellite view is fantastic and also really handy if you’re looking for place’s so the task was not so much a task as much to have a fiddle, I decided to recreate my walk from my psychogeography journey onto the map so people could see which way I went and also do the walk if they wish. To do all this I first watched the ‘How to create a “My Map” in Google Maps’ it was pretty easy to understand and very easy to pick up but worth watching before I started…

So I started my map I found on Google maps where I started my walk and added a place mark then drew a line to another stop and added a place mark this carried on till the end of my journey when you add a new placemark you can give it a title change the icon upload a photo and write a description, so i did from my photos I took during my original walk I uploaded them onto my Flickr account and copied the url to put them on my map when you click on the placemarks you will see a photo of that area I was quite proud of this, but really its just the start I will add more to my Psychogeography Journey Walk, a different route at a different time of day maybe, add video to it and also add more to my map the other part of the journey add more text and make it even maybe like a story like ‘Penguin Books webpage google map book The 21 Steps’ which I took a brief look at and it seemed pretty good and maybe how mine might end up like with some more work who knows, but for now heres My Google Map.

Yesterday I also noticed after creating a Google account I now had a igoogle (your own personalised Google homepage) which is so cool with its little apps to Facebook, MySpace, Youtube, Twitter, the weather, a few games and my own choice of header I found all this quite fun and spent some time on it, being all interactive. Because I could get an app for Twitter I decided to go back on my twitter account which I created ages ago to see what all the fuss was about I now have started using which you can see to the right hand side… Here’s my igoogle page layout…

I also still being in a interactive mood created a Delicious account for all my bookmarking needs after all this I widgeted it up on my wordpress as you can see to the right again where i have my updated Flickr account my Twitter and my Delicious account.

So I had a great day getting all interactive online. Also while thinking about interactivity I remembered this video by the band All Time Low called Weightless I think it has quite a funny look at interactivity take a look…