Continuing Concrete Dialogues

It's always strange when something you worked on a couple of years back suddenly starts generating interest, without any particular reason. I've been asked to speak at a couple of different seminars this month on the Concrete Dialogues writing project, a rather mammoth undertaking which has been online now for a couple of years. I can't explain why it's being noticed suddenly, but it certainly makes me happy. There's even talk of developing the concept in other areas.

To celebrate, before I speak about it tomorrow at the Still/Open Online Publishing Forum along with many infinitely more interesting international guests (at the Bakery, info here), I've gone in and tidied and fixed up a few things. I've also removed the ridiculous age restriction that was imposed on us by funding bodies, so anybody can now contribute.

It's still too heavily javascript-dependent, but all good mashups seem to be, and it feels like something I wrote two years ago, which it is, but I'd actually forgotten how much fun it is. And to make it more fun, I've just wasted the afternoon integrating with Google Earth. Just load this file into Google Earth and, in the words of Jobs, "boom". Wicked cool - and freaky as hell when you turn on flight simulator mode.