2004
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From One Bike to Two
in BikingTonight I made my inaugugal ride on my new Jamis Aurora touring bike, purchased last night from the fine people as Harris Cyclery in West Newton, and the experience was truly transcendent. After an hour and half of pure pleasure riding west of Boston, I met friends at Cabot’s restaurant in Newtonville for a burger…
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elastic space: Spatial Annotation Projects
in WeblinksTimo Arnall’s elastic space.com is a fantastic resource for web-based mapping, geoannotation, and interaction design. In particular, his list of spatial annotation projects is a boon for my current research.
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Cafenation in Brighton Center
in Third PlacesThis morning I’m at Cafenation, the Brighton Center coffee shop that has become by go-to work place in the mornings. I’ve been coming here 2-4 times/week since late January and it’s become an important part of my writing routine. Most mornings I’ll check my email briefly after breakfast and then suit up to get on…
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Save Our Lady of Presentation
in NeighborhoodThis evening the voice of my blogging conscience emailed with the subject line, "Where’s the Where?" Good question, Nancy. The last week or two week, the place-based composition reader I’m working on with some colleagues as taken over my life and kept me from blogging about place (and kept me from being in any places…
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A Weekend in Portland
in DestinationsSometimes just when you feel the busiest and most overwhelmed, the best thing to do is leave town. So this is what we did this weekend, and it turns out that spending the weekend exploring Portland with friends was just what I needed.
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Leaves in Water: Mackworth Island, ME
Taken on Mackworth Island, just of the coast of Portland, Maine.
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Thingster
Thingster is an open-source weblogging service for locative media. It is being developed by Anselm Hook, Tom Longson and Brad Degraf in association with Locative – a multi-disciplinary group of theorists, artists and engineers exploring the implications of attaching information to place.
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From Friendster to Thingster
in DissertationMy twin distractions this afternoon have been Friendster and Thingster, two different kinds of social networking applications that I hadn’t tried before. Andrew invited me to join Friendster and once I signed up, I wasted part of the afternoon figuring out how it worked and browsing through the gallery. It definitely weaves a sticky network;…
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Bonfire in Lanesville
in RegionI spent this July 4th out in Lanesville, a village of Gloucester on Cape Anne, about an hour drive north of Boston. Around 9:00 we walked down to Lane’s cove to watch home-grown fireworks and the largest bonfire I’d ever seen–a pile of wood about 30 feet high with a sailboat perched on top. It…
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Pancakes Across America
in WeblinksThanks to Numenius at Feathers of Hope, I discovered a great breakfast website this morning, and it has inspired me to keep my dream of designing a collaborative breakfast website alive.