On plane photoblogging is so cool! Tampa to Chicago on SWA.
Monday, November 27, 2006
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Chicago Calling
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Cupcake crawl Saturday
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
The Craft Racket
If you're a crafter or artisan, stop by tonight at Uncommon Ground for
some drinks and networking. The cafe is at the corner of Clark and Grace
streets just north of Wrigley Field.
Monday, August 28, 2006
Event Map
CommunityWalk Map - FollowMe
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Bucktown Arts Festival
Another SMS service
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Goodnight
In Joel's car on Kennedy expwy traffic heading home. Fireworks were
enjoyable way to end the night. Followme has now retired for the
night...more tomorrow though...stay tuned.
Tea gschwender
After dinner we stumbled upon a lovely tea store carrying top quality
looseleaf teas. You can sample anything in the store. Chicago is the
only current U.S. location for this German company.
Apple store
Decided to stop at the Apple store for a bit of web surfing before
heading to Sabon soaps
Glenwood Festival / Sabon soaps
There was some cool art on display there as well as the usual jewelry
vendors. I resisted the urge to down a pint at Duke's bar and headed for
cafe ennui cuz someone at Mess Hall told me it was an internet cafe. It
did have free wireless but no terminals. So now I decided to catch the
sheridan xpress bus downtown, probably to check out Sabon soaps on
Michigan ave.
Spacca
Spacca was a nice place. My friend Tammy joined me there and we had a
chance to catch up. Now waiting for sb brown line.
Lunch at Spacca Napoli
So, instead of Thai buffet as originally planned, it'll be thin crust pizza. We'll see how things go from there.
Friday, August 25, 2006
Influence the journey
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Wed night
Just a preview of what's coming on Saturday. This from tonight's final
Summerdance DJ series in Grant Park, going on right now.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
More structure
The goal is to provide updates every 15 minutes on the day of the event.
By the way, if you can't follow along via text message or this website, you can always shoot me an e-mail: msmithivas (at) tmail (.) com and I'll try to keep you in the loop.
There will also be photos uploaded via Flickr tag followme.
Friday, August 11, 2006
SMS tools
The first is Mozes. Send a text message with the word "followme" to 66937 using your mobile phone. You will get a reply asking if you'd like to subscribe. Reply with Y. On the day of the event, this will allow organizers to send updates as the event progresses throughout the day.
Alternately, you can sign up and join Twitter.com, which is akin to a text message chat group. Once you join, add user mvs as your friend and you'll be set.
Both services will be used on the 26th. Note that your carrier may charge a small fee for each text message sent and received, so keep that in mind if you decide to join. You'll also be able to follow along via this web page.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Project Philosophy
Personally, I feel too much of the web revolves around stuff you do while you're at your computer, which probably is either located in your home or at your office. But there is so much going out out there in the "real world", and now your technology can travel with you as you go out and explore the urban environment. Thus the second driver for this project is to explore how content and community looks and feels when presented in the context of a mobile publishing framework.