Captioning Sucks [1]
Captioning Sucks is a new pseudopod out of of Joe Clark’s Open and Closed project. See also: Screenfont.CA. Peruse urgently.
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Times and situations [2]
Go urgently and listen and listen and listen, because whatever problem you’re solving or relationship you’re negotiating or light you’re bringing into the world, it’s just an interpretation of something someone else did recently, but before you were born.
Thanks @danklyn for the recommendation(s).
2008-02-26
Alive to the extent [2]
Paraphrased for a new century and an old industry:
“To seek the timeless way we first must know the quality without a number. There is a central quality which is the rooted criterion of life and the spirit of man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be numbered.”
2007-12-06
Placeshout progress
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.
2007-09-27
Break through in the red room [1]
This message brought to you by Liana, the man from another place, and some multi-appendaged Sony marketroid:
2007-09-23
Placeshout: a brand new colony [5]
Late last week, Catherine twitterinvited folks to bulk up Ann Arbor on Placeshout. Three days later, Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti are the first and third most “shouted” cities, with San Francisco coming in second. This reminds me of the early, happy days of upcoming.org, when Ann Arbor was one of the locations with the most user and event churn.
So what the hell is Placeshout? Take a look. For context, see Ed’s notes on the KARB/KYIP Placeshout event. Here’s all of my activity on the site.
It’s too bad there’s no API, and no feeds. You can search and Google Maps browse and so forth right on the site, so there’s no pressing need, beyond the standard desire to pipe Placeshout white noise into various filters. Or grab a KML. Or update Placeshout from Twitter (I can only assume that’s what the additional 40 characters in twitterspace are for).
I do like how you aren’t expected to make friends with everybody. It’s enough, at least for now, to see a username you know and think O HAI and just move on with the pressing business of downrating inappropriately positive reviews of Ann Arbor’s crappier brewpubs.
