The WhereProject

Dissertation

  • From Friendster to Thingster

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    My 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;…

  • Feathers of Hope

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    A weblog on nature and place, the design arts, politics, and baseball…Numenius is a geographer by training and temperament. He is a Bay Area native, and grew up roaming the East Bay hills. Pica takes her cue from Pica nuttelli, the endemic magpie of central California, chatty and alighting on gleaming things.

  • C&W 2004: Paper on Place Blogging

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    I presented the following paper at the Computers and Writing 2004 conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 10-13, 2003. This is a first run at writing about place blogging, so all the standard caveats apply: it’s not very polished, it’s meant to be delivered orally rather than read, etc. But I would like to make it…

  • On the Road: Hawaii and LA

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    As a newbie blogger, I still have some learning to do regarding the conventions of keeping a regular weblog. For instance, I’ve been away for the past week at the Computers and Writing conference in Hawaii but I forgot to post a "Stepped out for a bit–Back in a week" note, probably because I’m still…

  • Ecotone topic: Time and Place

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    After much lurking and hanging back, I’ve decided that it’s time to post something for this week’s Ecotone topic, “Time And Place.” Even as I’ve fallen behind on writing in my own place blog, I’ve been thinking about the affect the practice of place blogging can have on perceptual pace. If a weblog has been…

  • Boston Stories and the City Stories Project

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    Today as I made my way through the Ecotone site, I found my way to Derek Powazek’s The City Stories Project and subsequently to the Boston Stories site. The Boston site is organized by neighborhood, so I visited the Allston section, only to find no-one had posted anything. An excuse for me to write something,…

  • Defining locative media, summarizing the project

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    In this piece in the Guardian from about a year ago, Jim McClellan offers a succint summary of locative media, one that also resonates with the core interests of my dissertation project: When the net first went mainstream, people talked up cyberspace as some sort of alternative global space, a new frontier where distance was…

  • Ecotone: A Wiki for Place Blogging

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    This evening as I was trying to decide what to submit to the 2004 Computers and Writing Conference (since the deadline is this week), I ran across a great wiki on place-based blogging called "Ecotone:" Writing about Place." Now that I know that there is as least this community, I’m inspired me to kickstart this…