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While having a fascinating time checking out the amazing website/app EveryBlock.com, one of the many brilliant information and geo-information projects of Adrian Holovaty, (also famous among tech-cogniscenti for Django) I found the outstanding blog The Brooklyn Ink, a project of The Journalism School at Columbia. It’s beautiful-looking, the content is wildly diverse, and everything I’ve [...]
It’s hard to write headlines without fawning. But here’s a blog written by and about a very cool couple in San Francisco – Lifetinker. Thoughtful, funny, out-of- the-box posts; from which I’ve tentatively concocted the following hypotheses: We’ve already determined that we need high-speed rail and pneumatic tube package and mail delivery across the country, [...]
Local Deanna Zandt is conducting some research for her upcoming book, Share This!: For Share This!, I’m trying to cover and answer some of the most common hesitant feelings when it comes to people getting fully on board with the social networking movement. If you’re not active already, what are the questions you need answered, [...]
Khoi Vinh, the outstanding web designer (Subtraction, The Times, Mister President), and neighborhood resident and Liz Danzico, whose work is new to us (Happy Cog Studios, Bobulate.com) have created A Brief Message, A Brief Message features design opinions expressed in short form. Somewhere between critiques and manifestos, between wordy and skimpy, Brief Messages are viewpoints [...]
The Toeprint Project – reducing carbon footprints one bit at a time. This is a project of the brilliant New York architect Ellen Honigstock – check out the galleries of her work on the front page of her site. NB: we’re neighbors and friends. But her work speaks for itself.
Brooklyn Blogfest 2009 will be held May 7th, 2009 at 7 pm powerHouse Arena in Dumbo.
See NYT Reporter Learns that the Earth is Round, on Max Ajl’s blog Jewbonics. I’m not sure that I agree with all of Max’s points, but my experience with the Ajl (pronounced “aisle”) children has taught me that they’re not to be underestimated.
We know that there are other great local blogs out there – we seem to discover them slowly – and this morning discovered the Ditmas Park Blog. They’re far more organized than we are, so it’s a fair bet that we’re going to plagiarizing as much as we can get away with as soon as [...]
We’ve just learned that local resident and international tech-hack-celebrity Bre Pettis (http://brepettis.com/blog/) has a new show – “History Hacker” – on the History Channel. (As WordPress suddenly makes half of my editing buttons disappear – we’ll be back later with a re-edited version of this post).
Brooklyn Desk may or may be produced in Brooklyn, but its heart is here. Check out Jeremy Speer’s site and blog Brooklyn Desk. More coming, we hope, as we arrange permissions. UPDATE: we’re working on the rumors of tunnnels between Brooklyn and certain Western States, apparentlu used to ship loz, bagels, and pastrami during wartime [...]
An excerpt from Marcelle Manhattan’s lovely piece this week, There’s No Place Like Home: I move at least once a year. Since 2003, I’ve subjected myself to six rounds of searches on Craig’s List, six tedious packing rituals, and six tales of mishap with sundry scurrilous moving companies. You might think me a carefree, irreverent [...]
All the air knocked out of air Rinsing Feeling — not so bad what you knew would happen has only happened later than you expected the delay: a blip. By Todd Colby – at Todd Colby’s GleeFarm.
Journalist Ashton Applewhite is working on her latest book, about people in their 80′s who are still working, called “So When Are You Going to Retire?” Applewhite has a history of deflating social tuisms, most recently demonstrating that, in fact, women often do better emotionally and financially after divorce – rather than the commonplace (but [...]
Undocumented aliens, of course. With feathers. Scott Whittle in his Year of the Bird Project documenting love, and batles among the Canadian geese in Prospect Park.
We’re adding Blogger Dog to our blogroll. We like this blog for a number of reasons, but most because credit is given where due – unless some other human-dog teams we’re aware of, in which the dog does all the creative heavy lifting – but somebody else takes the credit. Just saying. This is all [...]
On the Chinese Calendar, it’s the Year of the Rat. But for our neighbor Scott Whittle, it’s the Year of the Bird. And he has a plan: 2008 is my Big Year in birding, and I’m using it as an opportunity to raise money! Donate a fixed amount for every bird I see this year, [...]
By Todd Colby, poet, “Here’s The Rub:” Here’s the Rub Trees don’t look heavy but they are heavy and here’s the rub: you have to cut them down in order to weigh them I envision you interpreting this as a call to arms the axe is ready it is very shiny and there is special [...]
We’ve added another local blog – Brooklyn Heights Blog – to our blogroll. Welcome!
Check out Brooklyn Streets, Carroll Gardens, an excellent local blog.