The WhereProject

Locative Media

  • A Heavenly Harvest: First CSA Pick-up

    A Heavenly Harvest: First CSA Pick-up

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    This evening after work I stopped by Community Servings here in JP to pick up my first CSA delivery of fruits and veggies straight from Heaven's Harvest Farm in New Braintree, MA. It's the first time I've tried community supported agriculture, so after reading Michael Polland and Bill McKibben recently, I'm excited to try out…

  • The Right Ride: A Collaborative Map for Safer Biking in Boston

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    Earlier this week, Nancy M. pointed me to a new Google mashup called The Right Ride, designed to allow users to document dangers spots for bikers by adding annotations to a map. Chris Briaotta created the site in response to the recent death of two Boston cyclists, and it gives fellow bikers a way to…

  • Classical Music Graffiti, or the Promise of Placecasting

    Classical Music Graffiti, or the Promise of Placecasting

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    Earlier this week I noticed that a fellow patron of the JP Licks men's restroom felt inspired to jot "Gustav Holst 9 planets" on the baby-changing table with black marker. Perhaps it was playing on his iPod as he was taking care of business and he felt compelled to leave an inscription of this sublime…

  • Confluences: GeoProject USA and Google Maps

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    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 doing ("Google points way to Maps’ code"). They’ve made their API info available at http://www.google.com/apis/When I ran across the GeoProject USA, I noticed they had already put together…