Marc Canter has been blogging intensively from Web2.0, and one of the many postings that caught my eye was this one about the Wordwide Media eXchange. A snapshot from my quick perusal of the web interface is included here... it provides clickable hotspots all around the world about which people have uploaded images. Very nice!

The downloadable app runs more smoothly and speedily, and it looks to me like this is a much more scaleable version of the Degree Confluence Project about which I blogged last year. That project had as its goal "to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures and stories will then be posted here. The project is an organized sampling of the world. There is a confluence within 49 miles (79 km) of you if you're on the surface of Earth. We've discounted confluences in the oceans and some near the poles, but there are still 13,498 to be found."

Interesting contrast between the two: the Degree Confluence Project targets the finite number of latitude/longitude grid interesection (integer values only), whereas WWMX is completely free-ranging... cool! It'll be very interesting to watch how the upload of rich media, targeted to place-specific tags, evolves.

Add to these some of the other activities in this arena, such as GeoURL (alas, currently 'down for renovations' when I checked just now) and the Jabber World Map, plus all the other phenomena we've been blogging about recently (Plazes, BuddySpace, HitMaps, etc), and it's evident there's a growing flood of interest not just in the well known Geographical Information Systems space, but more specifically in the socially-mediated and 'personal presence'/'personal history/narrative' angle that really adds some spice to the mix and brings people and places to life.