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TLC For the Old Bike
in BikingThis morning when I got on my bike, I could feel it was happy about the tune-up it received at Bicycles Bill’s over the weekend. Actually it was…
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A Cross Section of California
I just returned from a trip out to California for Monica’s wedding, a trip I extended so I could visit folks down the coast. I ended up…
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Place Blogging Piece Published
in DissertationA couple weeks ago, my piece "Blogging Places: Locating Pedagogy in the Whereness of Weblogs" in the journal Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedoagogy. I…
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A whippoorwill
in WeblinksBlog URL: http://whippoorwill.typepad.com/ Description: Whippoorwill is from Northern Ontario Canada, soon to re-locate to Toronto. She has some of the best writing you'll find on the web. …
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A Sense of Place: Finding a Somewhere to Call Home
Yesterday I tried out Google’s new blogsearch feature by plugging in "place" and one of the first sites that came up was Ronni Bennett’s blog, "A Sense…
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The Value of a Place
in CityI was surprised–and unnerved–to read in the Boston Globe that Boston is the most expensive metro area in the country, at least according to one study. The…
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The View from Other Blogs
in DissertationAfter a week of gleaning Katrina-related news from many sources, it’s been good to read the reflections of those in the circle of bloggers I follow: Fred…
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An Hour of the the Rolling Stones
Last night at about 9:30, I realized I didn’t have enough powdered milk to finish making yogurt, so I hopped on my bike for a quick trip…
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What part of Uff Da don't you understand?
in HometownYou know you’re in Cambridge/Somerville when you overhear a guy saying loadly into his cellphone,"I mean, what part of ‘englightened self-interest" don’t they understand.’" When I was…
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The Restroom
in WeblinksNancy M. alerted me to this unique blog, The Restroom: A journal of design oddities in public restrooms featured today in a Boston Herald article. In my…
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Find The River
in WeblinksReflections on fishing, life, ideas, and the spirit by an angling fanatic.
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An Evening with Tom Brosseau, North Dakota Troubadour
I almost didn’t make it out to hear Tom Brosseau play at Club Passim tonight. Elaine emailed me from CA a couple of days ago, urging me…
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Remembering Srebrenica and Chicago
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the massacres at Srebrenica when nearly 8,000 Bosnian Moslems were killed and the international community stood by without intervening. The…
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Confluences: GeoProject USA and Google Maps
This morning I read in the Boston Globe about Google’s decision to allow developers to plug customized data into Google maps, basically legitizing what hackers were already…
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Longfellow Epitaph
17 There is no Death! What seems so is transition; 18 This life of mortal breath 19 Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 20 Whose…
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The Quint House Goes Wireless
in HouseTonight I’m sitting on the porch enjoying the warm summer breeze while working online for the first time–thanks to the wireless network I finally set up last…
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Computers and Writing 2005, Stanford
Since Wednesday I’ve been in Palo Alto at the Computers and Writing 2005 conference, and tomorrow I’ll be heading back to Boston. The conference has been good–I…
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CIWIC 2005: Wrapping Up
in DestinationsWell, the last two weeks are now a blur of class time, lab time, and socializing at various sites around the Keweenaw. The immersion experience has kept…
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CIWIC 2005: Getting Started
in DestinationsFor the next two weeks, I’m up at the Computers in Writing Intensive Classrooms program at Michigan Tech. We’ve hit the ground running the last couple of…
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Writing Places
The first copies of Writing Places: A Longman Topics Reader appeared yesterday, a little over a year after Paula, George, Staci, and I started the project. It…
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Remnants of Spring
As I biked to Brighton Center this morning, I felt like I had missed the parade. In front of St. Elizabeth’s hospital the wind was blowing pink…
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A Critical Guide to Boston-Area Memorials
in CityThis past week I finished developing a site called Past Shapes, Present Stories: A Critical Guide to Boston-Area Memorials for a friend and colleague of mine at…
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Weekend Ramblings
in CityAfter a week stuck in front of computer and in workshops, I let myself wander a bit this weekend. The weather was beautiful and I realized how…
