We are off the Smethport, Holly's
hometown for the evening. I am going to see how far away this mobile
posting will go, I am excited to announce that we were also posted on
the smartmobs site. for any of you who are
interested in smartmobs and virtual communities, I would suggest
checking out the writings of Howard Rheingold. I use his books as
required reading for the DMA 201 course at Canisius.

I am thinking about incorporating a mobile device image into our logo.
Sounds like a 3D model waiting to happen.

Does anyone want to help me set up an estrip stand for the Pride
festival June 6th. It will be a beta test for the elmwood art festival.
I would also like to do live reporting on the event and the parade,
maybe with some street interviews, maybe Robin or Mike would be
interested in the interviews?

I tried to post a link to and information about our site on the "Speak up western new york site" and they labeled us as a SPAM business. It kind of feels like being labeled a terrorist! They told me the only place to tell people that there is a new free place to "speak up" is in the business advertising section. I would honestly have no mention than be labeled with businesses.



The admin told me that by offering our free journal system, we are trying to sell ideas and that makes us a business.

It's still a sales pitch, whether you're making money or not, even 'selling' an idea is considered spam in some perspectives.

Any of you that know me personally, know this is as far fetched as possible. I created this site as a free service to enable people without money and web design skills to be able to publish their opinions and "speak up" to a local audience in a most personal way.

This is my repsonse:

We pride ourselves on the fact that we are a free service to help people speak out and not a spam business, in fact making no money whatsoever, so when someone suggests we are a spam/busness and suggests that we get moved into the business/advertising section, it hurts. I would rather have no mention of the site on your site, than have the link in the business advertising section. I think it would send a really mixed message to people who find it.

The site itself is very similar to your speak out forum. The only difference is that the site is broken down by journal/user instead of by topic, alhough interlinking is allowed. By doing this we are trying to promote people getting to know each other through their views in a less anonymous way than a forum.

Its social network tracking with cell phones. Maybe I should implement something like this for the site. It wouldn't be that hard after all. Maybe though people would think its too scary. What do you think? Any comments?



"Hook up with friends. Discover what's around you."

Now available in Austin, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC.

Tell us where you are, and we'll broadcast your location to all your friends and let you know if any friends-of-friends are within 10 blocks.

Day one at the festival. We have 3 bbqs and an art festival to attend today. I think we will be coming back to do interviews tomorrow. Anyone interested in helping out?

I saw Kiltman from the elmwood street interviews and told him to check out his video. For the videos this week, I think we should interview the artists and not the shoppers. It will be much easier to get people to talk.

The woman behind me was just saying that a man was video recording her breasts. I thought she would be angry but instead she was excited, weird.

It is so hard to find a gift for my dad, he is utilitarian like me.

I downloaded some great 3D earth browsing software again from keyhole. I got another trial account for the keyhole earth browser. It is a great example of mixing 3D modeling with databases. I had talked about it before but they have updated some of the cities it seems and it looks
really nice. I am also using a better graphics card. I think it might only run on Nvidia cards on PCs, but here is the link to check it out.

Rachel This is what i was showing you the other day.


It is inspiring for the new 3D project I am working on with my class at Canisius this summer semester. We are going to try and model Forest Lawn Cemetary. Rachel got us some nice aerial photos. Here they are mixed with a 3D models.