Category: update

12/22/05 10:15 - 34ºF - ID#33184

Remember Buffalo update

So I am still waiting to move the server to artvoice. I have a feeling that it will never happen because I cannot ever make the time to do it during business hours. I love me new job so much but it kind of kills anything during business hours and I have no time off yet.

I am considering just buying a line to host from home. It would cost me about $100/month and I could run anything off it. Maybe I could convince someone to go in on it with me.

Check this out

I was searching on the internet for estrip today and found this PDF all about the rememeberbuffalo project

however, I did not write it, nor do I know the poeple. I wish they would have contacted me.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

11/16/05 01:51 - 45ºF - ID#33183

New Interface Updates

I added more dynamic instructions plus fixed the memory submission interface. You can also read the memories by genre. I am meeting with Jamie Moses at 10am to show him the project and talk about server space.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

11/14/05 10:44 - 42ºF - ID#33182

More Updates

1. Now when you roll over a memory it alerts you that you can click to read one.
2. You can now only add one grey new memory location at a time. To delete a selected location, just click on it.
3.Fixed cloud layout problem.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: web

11/14/05 11:13 - 44ºF - ID#33181

Thanks buffalopundit

I just saw that buffalopundit

wrote about the rememberbuffalo project.

Remember Buffalo Project
November 14th, 2005

Paul Visco is a computer whiz who designed the elmwoodstrip.com blog/journal interface from scratch.

His most recent project is something called "Remember Buffalo". Using google maps, it enables people to select locations and enter personal memories that correspond with a certain location on the map. Try it out.

Quoted from: BuffaloPundit

I cannot wait until it begins to grow. Soon we will be adding the primary doc section and we will collectmore primary docs than they have at the historical society. There are lots of (e:matthew) and (e:jim)'s photos in there too!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: interface

11/13/05 02:15 - 60ºF - ID#33180

Upgraded Memory Interface

I upgraded the memory interface

It is pretty effective now. Once I collect some more memories I will throw in a search engine. As soon as I decide on a final server solution I will also begin the primary doc upload section.

Please add some memories.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

11/12/05 01:50 - 54ºF - ID#33179

Upgrade Info

I will be working on the primay doc section next but for now, the interface to add memories has been upgraded with the following features.

1. You can visit the memories on your wap enabled cell phone using the beta mobile interface at rememberbuffalo.org/wap
2. The genre select list now shows you how many other memories have been assigned to specific genres.
3. submit reports the total number of memories that have been submitted.
4. The submit page displays 10 random memories from the total pool each time you visit.
3. The code is there to search by genre although I am not releasing the intertface for it until there are more memories. Currently, we are around 20.
4. All memories must include at least a location, a title, one genre, the year(s) it occurred and a memory.
5. Memories have been limited to Buffalo proper with boundaries of the Niagara River on the westside, Tifft Farm area to the south, Kenmore Avenue to the North and Bailey Avenue to the East. These boundaries might change over time but for now I would like to focus on the city itself.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

11/11/05 11:47 - 40ºF - ID#33178

Delawanda

Now I know my "homeland" was once called Delawanda

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: historical society

11/11/05 10:26 - 40ºF - ID#33177

Today at Rememberbuffalo

(e:lilho) and I headed down to the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society to do some research for the Remember Buffalo Project.

While we were there we found this pic of (e:joshua) and (e:jason)'s house across from spot at Cleveland and Elmwood. We also found some pics of the old trolley tracks on elmwood.

Here is a park at elmwood and Ferry along with the trolley tracks.

Here is the a shot of elmwood and North.

It is incredible what research consist of at the historical society. I cannot believe that their data is not digitized and searable on computers. You actually hold and look at original images in folder using special white gloves. You can request image photocopies for $0.25 but are not alowed to take pictures in the library which is ridiculous in my opinion. If you want to use their material you need to pay $25 per image for a six month lease to use the image. And that is the price for a non-profit project. How anti-preservation is that. If the place ever burns down or the material degrades there will be no external copies.

Hopefully using the remember buffalo primary document upload interface we will be able to collect thousands of primary documents of our own. Which I will then donate to a historical preservation group which promises free access and public domain for the contents.

Afterwards, I met with Doug Lambert from Randforce

about collaborating on the project. He seems like a really creative, driven guy that will be fun to work with.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: help

11/08/05 08:28 - 43ºF - ID#33176

I need a partner

[size=m]Remember Buffalo[/size]
What I would really like to expand upon is the Remember Buffalo project but I am am a weird standstill. Will it be developed in PHP or RoR? Who will I work with? Will it be yahoo or google maps based. Will I make my own mapping software now that I am all trigonometry style. I want a project with meaning and long term information delivery and storability.

Winter makes it less exciting but it is a great time to start out collecting all the data.

I want someone to work with and go with my places to check out old data, scan pics, think up ideas, etc. It is boring working alone. I was hoping (e:mike) would be into it, but he is always busy looking for a date.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: docs

10/25/05 12:46 - 42ºF - ID#33175

Primary Docs

(e:matthew) began sorting some of his photos into genres for the primary doc sectio nof the site. It is a huge amount of work and we hope to have some of the primary doc section up by this weekend. (e:jim) has also joined on as a photographer on the project.

Today we added two new genres. Downtown and gardening. If anyone is interested in working on the project feel free tyo shoot me an email.