Mikel Maron is up after the coffee break to talk about Illuminated Hacks.

However, my battery reckons it has 14 minutes of life left and I appear to be sitting far away from any potential power supply… damn and oops.

…We’re back with power.

An interesting talk from Mikel on a number of different hacks involving maps, location data and content.

On of these was the BBC Bangladesh River Journey – something that was particularly close to home for me (the BBC that is, not Bangladesh).

There was also some interesting stuff with Flickr – utilising the power of crowd sourcing the 65 million photos on Flickr to define locations across the world.

A brief mention of the Headmap manifesto and searching for sadness in New York.

In a lucky coincidence, he talked about the usefulness of machine tags and how Flickr can automatically connect with Upcoming as on one of my photo uploads to indicate that the image was taken at the Where2.0 2008 event.