intertwingly

I've really enjoyed Jon Udell's explorations into what he refers to as screencasting.  As a non-commuter who exhibits several of the symptoms of Adult ADD, and one who has female companionship accompanying him on his daily walks, I'm not really in the target demographic for podcasting.

By contrast, primetimehypermedia hits a real sweet spot for me.  By integrating text, motion, and sound, it captures my full attention - and yet it completely time-shift-able in the same sense that a podcast is.

And while each screencast has been excellent, today's walking tour of Keane, NH stands out.  It completely blew me away on so many levels.

On a personal level, Jon was presenting his viewers with a full multimedia tour of his home town.  Within seconds, it becomes obvious that Jo Walsh's dreams of Collaborative Mapping has just taken a huge step closer to reality.

On the next level, I'm completely mesmerized and impressed by the technical brilliance of how completely Jon and Matt King have managed to interweave data captured by handheld GPS devices, web-based mapping services, and digital video recorders, with a bit of JavaScript glue.  I'm very much looking forward to Jon's promised follow-up.

And on a third level, you gotta love the irony.  While it seems like half of the weblogging world are going bonkers over Google's new AutoLink, we have a few technicians quietly laboring over in a quiet corner of the Internet, creating bookmarklets which add links to pages served from Google's site.

And all this served in a manner accessible to thought leaders everywhere.