Brookline i-neighborhood
Posted on:: August 19th, 2004
Thanks to a recommendation by danah boyd, I’ve created an i-neighborhood for Brookline. The i-neighborhood site is an interesting experiment in adding a virtual layer to existing real world neighborhoods. (There’s an interesting discussion of the nature of neighborhoods over at danah’s site.)
As of now, I am the only member of the Brookline i-neighborhood, and thus am, at last, lord and sovereign.
Categories: Uncategorized dw
Bah, I am the king of Brookline! I do not recognize your authority.
I know it could be a good idea, but I keep hearing Harper Valley PTA in my head. Like condos, neighbhorhood blogs have the potential for the fussiest busybody neighbors to insist others live m=by their rules.
It’s harder in person to tell somebody you don’t like their lawn elf collection, you their grass is too long (so what) or (your nonstandard behavior here).
Thnx, I did one, too, because I’ve been fighting industrial noise pollution, and this may hulp.
Re: busibodies, etc. True, but bloggers are brighter, and the freedom of it overrides any downside. I have been able to communicate efficiently and effectively with people in the condo assoc. via email lately, whereas I was basically shut out in person. Go figure?
I have taken the Washington Sq. Starbucks. Victory is mine!
Come and beg for your non-fat lattes, varlets!
I demand that you release Starbucks. If you do not I will be forced to erect a blockade around Anna’s Taqueria.
Anna’s has already fallen, my friend, and its bean burrito mortars are going full blast, if you know what I mean.
Your cause is hopeless. Submit while I’m still feeling magnanimous.
yea, you’ll erect something eventually, alright.
When it gets to dogs, this social networking thing has gone to far
Today I received an long ‘zine email from David Weinberger, who reminded me that he had set up a neighborhood on the fashionable new geographically-based academia-powered social networking site, i-Neighbors, so I went and checked out North Berkeley, th…