The Commodore Pet in the window of the Next Level Cafe (formerly BadBrain Computers) at 3rd & Division caught my eye with its repeating message: “We’re moving to 18…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
It’s been a little over a year since the City of Northfield and Greenvale Township signed an annexation agreement for 530 acres of undeveloped farmland. The concept plans are for the park are now being proposed. I got this alert about the upcoming open house from Randy Jennings:
Earlier this week I read a blog post by Bora Zivkovic titled Twittering is a difficult art form – if you are doing it right (which started with a tweet by Aaron Naparstek) and followed his link to Jay Rosen’s blog post from a year ago, Mindcasting: defining the form, spreading the meme. Rosen tweeted about it this week, too.
I also re-read the March 2009 article in the LA Times, On Twitter, mindcasting is the new lifecasting.
- Mindcasting (WordSpy definition): “Posting a series of messages that reflect one’s current thoughts, ideas, passions, observations, readings, and other intellectual interests.”
- Lifecasting (Zivkovic definition): “to be in a continuous presence in a community of one’s liking.” Rosen extreme example: “what you had for breakfast or how much you hate Mondays.”
All this helped me rethink my own use of social media:
A blogger named Robin Hamman “spotted this in a window in Darlinghurst, Sydney.” It occurred to me that this ‘Real Men Don’t Blog!!’ poster might be a big seller here…
While digging through my photo archives, I stumbled upon photos from two public meetings in late fall of 2003: the Hospital Reuse Open House in November and a presentation by Hospital Reuse committee members Alex Beeby and Meg Hargreaves to the City Council in December, with photos of citizens (primarily 
Way Park advocates) speaking at open mic. (Those links go to my blog posts at Northfield.org.) I’ve combined the photos from both meetings into one album.
There are some familiar faces in this album. My favorite: downtown mail carrier Tom Kotula, showing his ability to handle more than the mail.
See the album of 38 photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:
Paul Smith, owner of the McClaughry Building at 5th and Division, was doing 50% of the heavy lifting on Sunday morning while working on the revamp of the retail space…
Back in the fall of 2008, I blogged some photos of the whimsical bronze sculptures on the Malecón, the oceanside boardwalk in the center of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I was…
Alex Beeby, member of the Adult Board of Directors for the Northfield Union of Youth (NUY), told me this morning that they’d closed on the purchase of the old Northfield…