There were a few items that came out of the American Planning Association Conference in Philadelphia I attended I wanted to note here. Not the least of which was the art of Isaiah Zagar I stumbled across in an alley, and the recently saved Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens. I couldn’t helped but be reminded of Detroit’s […]
Urban Planning and Web 2.0
I thought I would note I’ve posted an article about potential applications of Web 2.0 technologies in the field of urban planning to the Planetizen blog: Planetizen: How Can Planners Use the Web? I’ll keep a running list of my posts to Planetizen in the column on the left.
Wanted: Photos of Google’s Book Digitization Project
I’ve engaged in some speculation before about the size and character of Google’s effort to digitize the nearly 5 million volumes in the University of Michigan library as part of their plan to digitize the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and The New York Public Library. I’ve also […]
Mapping Development in College Park
Today at Rethink College Park we launched an interactive Google Map of all the various development projects we have written about so far on that website. It also serves as a graphical index to the site, since each point is linked to a page containing all our posts on the project. While it’s not as […]
Flickr Puts Pictures on the Map
I think Flickr’s launch of geotagging for photos is the most exciting development in social software since the launch of Friendster way back in 2002. If you are not familiar with the site, Flickr is basically a conventional photo-sharing website like Webshots or Snapfish rolled together with a social networking site like Friendster or Myspace. […]
Digitizing the National Archives
For the past eight months I’ve been spending lots of time at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) facilities in D.C. and College Park, Maryland conducting research for History Associates. While NARA has recently launched an ambitious program with Lockheed Martin to create a system to store electronic records, the entire operation is still […]
Well, That’s Done
After using PCs for my entire life I’m switching to a Mac. My black 13-inch MacBook should come in about a week. Looks like I’ll even be able to transfer my iTunes library, play counts and all. I got a free iPod Nano through their back-to-school deal on top of their student discount. Aside from […]