Everyblock was shut down by parent company NBC today. Dan Sinker and Mark Armstrong each wrote about it. I suspect Erin Kissane will write about it for Source.
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The USPS is going to stop delivering paper mail on Saturdays. Some people seem excited about that, but those people are ignorant of a good thing.
- @vruba said “In my opinion, USPS is such a highly-multiplied public good that it ought to be expanded and subsidized.”
- @parkan said “USPS is much, much better than nationalized or private mail services in much of the world, important competitor for fedex/ups”
- But I most appreciated this tweet by @aworkinglibrary: “The postal service’s commitment to deliver to every American, everywhere, is the original net neutrality.” — she also linked to a great Esquire piece about the USPS.
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The Mailbox app came out and I got even more excited about Mailstrom, which gives me hope for keeping up with the waves of email that come every day. These waves are clearly of some relation to the notes above. I posted a photo from Mailstrom on my notebook tumblr.
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Litherland started working at Hoefler-Frere Jones, which feels like a net positive for the whole community.
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New York is in for an epic blizzard tomorrow. People are tweeting about the grocery lines.
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Keef shared these photos by Chris Arnade of New Yorkers with drug addiction. It’s rough. Every possible trigger warning.
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I’m still grappling with two posts by @thisisaaronland:
you are here / maybe and time pixels about place and space and the data of it. About asking the people of somewhere to share the name of where they are.
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What is a place? What do we record? What is hidden? The recorded memory of a place in 1888 has me thinking: what is a history of major events in the face of the major-ness of a broadcast everyday? Has it always been this way? I don’t know. I suspect a place requires connections of many kinds. Is made by those connections. Letters in the mail and tweets and emails and the sharing of news, not the least of it.
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Addendum
And then, a few hours later, Peter released a cloudless-map using @vruba’s wheather code.
And this—plus our giant sun-sized battery—was all there was: http://zoomy.net/img/montage2.jpg
… until Jen went one further:
“Look at this or else. pic.twitter.com/eeHg33a3”