Brian Kerr

We’re kicking at the tires of the moving engines again. Liana’s finished at EMU in a month, and both of us are likely to work on things in zero-eight that have some meatspace Ann Arbor component. So a goal is to get within easy bus shot of Blake and other points around the center of camp. A secondary goal is to not live along or anywhere near the Plymouth Road corridor, since those were the environs, continuously, for my first nine years inside the Washtenaw bubble. A tertiary goal is to procure a microscopic little apartment, for various small-here comma big-here reasons to be expounded on, at sufficient length, in the infinite and perfected future.

So here’s the tour we’ll make later this week:

View Larger Map — any thoughts, comments, amendments?

(tags: annarbor big here location 0′ moving small here ypsilanti)

I finally gave up on Plazes — after two years, after they totally broke it (by, in one majestic batshit swoop, redesigning the site and discontinuing the API and junking up the desktop client), and after everybody else in the local nova mob stopped using it.

But: there’s some slightly unknown collective action that Plazes didn’t enable — and neither yet has anything else. All those little timeslices of Plazes-attention over all those months got me: a sense of space, weird trivia about University buildings, and a few happy excuses to meet a new person in an airport ✈ or cafe ♨.

Here are my notes about Plazes from 26 months ago.

(tags: annarbor cybernetics maps micro-elegy networks nova-mob plazes space swoop)

(tags: annarbor ☄ cybernetics invitations michigan ypsilanti)

Arbcamp was today: here are some pictures. About 80 people attended, and I think it was a good investment of a day in about eighty ways.

There’s much to say — and more to do —
    but for, now, let “thank you” suffice.

(tags: annarbor arbcamp events goodnight openspace thanks)

Community Farm of Ann Arbor distribution, per an anonymous embedded microcorrespondent:

nice sweet potatoes and broccoli and an eggplant and more of those weird Japanese greens. Some kale, too. And a nice head of lettuce. And a pumpkin for you!

Note from the farm chalkboard: the butterflies like to lay eggs in broccoli in this hot weather we’ve had. Soaking the broccoli in cold salty water will dispatch any errant caterpillars. I tried it last night and it worked!

(tags: annarbor butterflies caterpillars community-farm food)

At this writing, there are 11 Placeshout microneogeographers in Ann Arbor who’ve written 5 or more shoutouts. The top 5 cities on the site are (1) Ann Arbor, (2) San Francisco, (3) Detroit, (4) Ypsilanti, and (5) Atlanta. 35 cities in Michigan have at least one place mentioned.

There’s a Placeshout Facebook group.

New feature: RSS feeds per location, e.g. Ann Arbor geoRSS.

Thanks Andre and Derek!

(tags: annarbor atlanta detroit georss interaction media microneogeography networks placeshout rss sanfrancisco ypsilanti)

October 27 2007 — you’re invited — arbcamp.org — clickthrough urgently

(tags: annarbor arbcamp attend events invitations logo october 27 2007 urgently)