Ever click on some business blog, start reading and quickly stop, wondering “Will anyone ever actually read this except the googlebot?” You know Boring when you see it, but what does the bot know? Are they working on a bot that will detect SE Optimized Keyword-Rich text that no human would ever slog through so they can deprecate it accordingly? Is such a bot possible?  Might such a bot discourage cyber clutter?

Today I overcome my fear of being one of one of those bloggers.  Pride demands I be more than just another guy starting a blog in hope it will improve the pagerank of his ecommerce site.  Have I anything to say? Well, visitors to the Map Center have long known how easy it is to get me going on a lecture, declamation or tirade on the subject of maps (or anything else, come to think of it). Some have come back for more!

For a long time I have been thinking about how maps are a medium that contributes like no other to human consciousness. I hope you find this as interesting as I do.

And hello to you too Mr. Bot.