The WhereProject

Dissertation

  • Place Blogging Piece Published

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    A 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 wouldn’t have been able to do this without all the generous input I received from numerous place bloggers, especially the Ecotone folks. So thanks everyone for your feedback…

  • A Sense of Place: Finding a Somewhere to Call Home

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    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 of Place: Finding a Place to Call Home." In May she decided to start this blog to document her recent decision to leave New York City after 30-some…

  • The View from Other Blogs

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    After 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 on The Benefits of Disaster Beth from The Cassandra Pages on taking our interconnectedness seriously Pica’s practical musings in "What I Can Do" Jarrett insights on the "death"…

  • A Reseach Excursion to Berkeley

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    While I was in San Francisco, Pica contacted me to let me know she and Numenius would be in Berkeley on Saturday and wondered if I would have time to get together. I was glad they took the initiative because it turned out the conference was winding down and I was looking for an excuse…

  • Familar Topographies

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    Sometimes a place just fits, like it was custom-designed for a particular moment and state of mind. Yesterday morning this place was the basement of City Lights bookstore in a section entitled “Topo/Graphies” where I found myself during my last few hours in San Francisco, a city where I’ve come to feel at home in…

  • Getting Settled in San Francisco

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    Last night I arrived in San Francisco after along day of travelling and a hectic week. The CCCC conference began this morning and I was there bright and early for a morning workshop on blogging. At noon I met up with Jarrett from Creature of the Shade for my fourth installment in the "conversations with…

  • Walking and Chewing Gum

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    Of course there’s great irony in the fact that just as I’m writing an article on place blogging, I’m spending very little time either blogging or venturing very far beyond the space in front of my computer screen. In my darker moments, I fear that this is just an inherent part of academic work, the…

  • Ecotone Bi-Weekly Posts: A Modest Analysis

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    In prepraration for my interview with Pica from Feathers of Hope a couple weeks ago, I put together a modest quantitative overview of the Ecotone bi-weekly topics, just to get a better sense of who was posting to the site. The results are listed below:Date range: June 15, 2003-November 15, 2004 Basic Stats Topics: 34…

  • Breakfast with Fred

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    Biking to Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge: 750 caloriesOverpriced hotel orange juice: $4Overpriced breakfast sandwich $9Conversation with Fred: pricelessAfter three and half hours of conversation about blogging, place, education, and life, we were just getting warmed up, and by the end of the moring I felt a genuine intellectual kinship with this person that I…

  • Writing like an Ant

    Writing like an Ant

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    The other day I was sitting on our front porch enjoying the mild evening weather, and I began to watch the labors of single ant, hard at work on the wide cement railing. As far as I could tell, his primary task was to move wood shavings from the base of the column where they…