Concharto to be demo’ed at Where 2.0
May 2, 2008 – 2:47 pm by frankI’m happy to report that I’ll be demonstrating Concharto at this year’s Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco on May 12. My presentation is “How to Make a Geographic Wiki.” I’ll use events and timelines from the map to illustrate all the important features of Concharto.
I’ll definitely show them“The Play.” As John Madden would say, “he goes left, he goes right, Boom!” I bet I’ll irritate some Stanford grads but, hey, it’s just a demo.
When Leo Tolstoy wrote “War and Peace” in the 1860’s, he sprinkled it with whole chapters of rants against the historians of the day. His complaint was that they viewed history solely as a progression of major events precipitated by “great men”. Instead, he argued, history is a much more complicated progression of cause and effect driven by small events. In one of his more philosophical moments, he proposed applying the scientific method to history, asserting that a complete understanding of an event could be obtained by slicing that event into smaller and smaller pieces, in exactly the same way that a math student performs integral calculus.
