The WhereProject

2009

  • iPhone App for Municipal Complaints

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    The city has released an iPhone app that enables residents to report problems as they encounter them on the ground: “The Citizens Connect iPhone App that provides a lightweight interface into the City of Boston’s Constituent Relationship Management System (CRM). The intention is to help constituents easily report a variety of different service requests including…

  • Walden Pond in Fall

    Walden Pond in Fall

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    This afternoon we spend some time at Walden in the heart of fall.

  • Catching Up with Chicago

    Catching Up with Chicago

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    We spent Columbus Day weekend in Chicago visiting friends–Jessica, Amy, Sandra, Ernie and Stephanie–and it was great to catch up with old friends. But it was also great to catch up with the city itself, picking up where we left off many years ago and spending some quality time together.

  • First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection

    First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection

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    This weekend we attended the opening of the First Hand exhibit, a remarkable collection of Civil War Era sketches never seen by the public before. This exhibit is special for me because I've been managing the website development for both the Becker Collection and the First Hand exhibit site over that last three years.  Though…

  • Jumping the Tracks

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    Tonight my neighbor Andrew emailed me a last-minute invitation to see a screening of the documentary “The Greening of Southie” (http://www.greeningofsouthie.com/), and since I didn’t have any firm plans, I decided to go.  By the end of the evening, I had:Riden my bike to Coolidge Corner after workEaten Pizza at Upper CrustBrowsed for half hour…

  • A Done Dissertation

    A Done Dissertation

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    Place Blogging: Local Economies of Attention in the Network  

  • Correspondences

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    The Transcendentalists were fond of looking for “correspondences” between the external world and the inner world, between say the weather and one’s emotions. As I sit working on the last revisions to my dissertation (I have the week off), such connections seem pretty clear. It’s a cold, rainy march day, drab above and below. The…

  • Facebook and Blogging

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    I've been working on the preface to my dissertation this morning, a kind of personal narrative of how I got interested in place blogging and where I've ended up now as I finish up. I began wondering if the rise of Facebook has affected the blogging practices of those I've been following in my projec,…