Front: Lenses for Writing
"By writing I learned to think about place, which in turn made me SEE it. And the cycle continues...looking makes me listen, makes me alive to the infinite transformations around me that make a place THIS place." (Pica, Feathers of Hope)
"What cannot be conveniently georeferenced and placed in a computer map gets forgotten about...if every place has tales, trying to write them down is a worthy way to bring them to the light." (Numenius, Feathers of Hope)
"The internet also seems to be part of the problem: As the 'information superhighway,' it tends to provide us with vast amounts of information in a very short time. However, Numenius expresses some hope that we are 'not very far off from having narrative-rich geographies emerge from the grassroots side of the web,' suggesting the future collaboration between weblogs and other locative media."
"Drawing on this wide range of technologies, blogging about place has the potential to be a deeply multimodal form of composition, reflecting both the radical changes taking place in communication technologies and the complex and diverse ways we come to develop our connections to place."
Back: Heuristics for Awareness
"The reverse chronological order and expectation of frequent updates invites dailyness by encouraging bloggers to notice the everyday changes in the world around them."--benefits of form
"This online rhetorical neighborhood supports the work of geographically dispersed writers in their ongoing efforts to understand their actual neighborhoods...the inspiration derived from good writing and insight into how others construct their sense of place...foster the conditions for further invention, as place bloggers learn from each other."
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