Comments on: A Calendar Year

By: Reverend

Reverend — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:00:25 +0000

Hey Scott,

I think it’s working now, not sure where that error was coming from, hmmmm.

By: Scott Leslie

Scott Leslie — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:25:08 +0000

fyi, http://umwblogs.org/calendar/ is giving me an error – looks like an error from Google, and maybe it is specific to me? But I thought you’d want to know

By: Ed Webb

Ed Webb — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:35:17 +0000

Help me! I’m mellllting!

By: Reverend

Reverend — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:28:52 +0000

@Ed Webb,

Just remember me when you get rich and famous, or I’ll send you a take down notice, damn it!

By: Ed Webb

Ed Webb — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:27:19 +0000

I’m in your blog, stealin’ your ideas.

By: Reverend

Reverend — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:57:40 +0000

@Susan,
I hadn’t seen this site before, but I am familiar with a number of blogs in Fredericksburg that it is aggregating. This is a nice example that folks are already keyed into this reality here. And one of the things it could benefit from, as could many a blog in Freddy, is some kind of way to display what’s going on around town–visitfred.com does this elegantly, but they also decide and control what is up there. Plus, there is no way to get it out of that site, you must go there to see it. I love the idea of reproducing a sense of what’s happening at the schools, libraries, businesses, etc. in a distributed manner, and I think knowing what’s happening, along with commentary, images, etc. may make a small difference, or maybe not. But why not see, and I could always use a hand

@Tony,
You’re right, he has been thinking through Delicious as a database for a while, but it took me this long to figure out and see it as a simple solution to driving a distributed application. Which doesn;t mean you both haven’t been doping it, but just that it took me this long to figure out what you two were up to. See, I’m very slow with this tech thing, but I’m a really good movie watcher I’ll have you know.

Happy New Year, Tony! Thanks for all the gems in 2008, and looking for more in 09.

@Pavel,

That Digital Communities project looks very much inline with this idea, and very much what both Jon and Barbara have me thinking towards over the long haul. I imagine you’re aware of both Barbara and Jon’s work (you’re New England neighbors after all ), both have been inspiring for me, and I hope to actually blog what happens when I try and interact with people around Fredericksburg about this idea. It’s the social dynamic of this reality that excites me, for the technology is interesting only to the point I understand it, much like the people I will be talking to. And rather than trying to talk about this at a conference, which has its limited uses, I’ll actually be talking about it with people who might see it as a way to immediately reach out with their community regardless of the institutions or organizations that we are all trying to push uphill like a Sisyphus-cursed boulder

By: pavel

pavel — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:56:25 +0000

Sounds wonderful, and resonates with the mission of our institution, Sterling College in Craftsbury, VT. I’m often challenged by being a humanities professor in an experiential curriculum, and it’s principally through initiatives like what you describe here – getting into our region’s communities, collecting narratives, and helping the region to build a community memory. I’d love to hear more about how your work develops. (for some of what we’ve been up to, see http://www.digitalcommunitiesproject.org).

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:51:40 +0000

G’morning, Reverend, and HNY…

Jon Udell has been talking about using services like delicious as a database for quite some time, I think?

Certainly, I know his thinking informed my use of delicious in the Strngle demonstrator a couple of years ago, where I used delicious to power the Stringle toolbar ( http://stringle.pbwiki.com/StringLE+URL+API ), as well as being a repository for Stringle configurations ( http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/stringle/stringleProfileSelect.php )

PS Hmmm, methinks I should maybe revisit Stringle and recode it as a small jQuery powered app?

By: Susan Carter Morgan

Susan Carter Morgan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:20:49 +0000

Exciting, Jim. Are you familiar with the Fred-burg feed? Not sure who does it, but I’ve been following it:
http://fburgnews.com/
I love your thoughts about defining community…look forward to watching this play out.