Follow Me Chicago

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2011-04-05T22:18:00.002-05:00

Moby takes the wheels of steel @ smartbar

2008-04-22T22:37:00.001-05:00

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Daughter getting cavity drilled at dentist

2008-04-17T12:39:00.001-05:00

She's a trooper.

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Promontory Point 57th and LSD facing north.

2008-04-16T19:56:00.001-05:00

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Meebo Room Live

2008-02-28T17:03:00.000-06:00

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2007-11-28T21:00:00.001-06:00



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Instant Jott

2007-11-08T17:19:00.001-06:00

Instant Jott listen

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Don't stand so close to me

2007-07-05T20:51:00.000-05:00

Synchronicity

2007-07-05T20:29:00.000-05:00

Police

2007-07-05T20:22:00.000-05:00

Message in a bottle

Floats

2007-07-04T09:25:00.000-05:00

Marching band

2007-07-04T09:19:00.000-05:00

Racine parade

2007-07-04T09:15:00.000-05:00

Campfire

2007-06-30T21:49:00.000-05:00

More camping

2007-06-30T13:46:00.001-05:00

More campy goodness

2007-06-29T15:04:00.000-05:00

Campsite

2007-06-29T14:22:00.001-05:00

Ottawa Lake campground

2007-06-29T14:18:00.000-05:00

Camping

2007-06-29T11:59:00.001-05:00

Dogwalking

2007-06-28T15:13:00.001-05:00

Gabcast

2007-06-24T14:31:00.000-05:00

Gabcast! FollowMe Chicago #1 - Test gabcast

Photoshoot @ north park nature center

2007-06-09T13:11:00.001-05:00

Uh oh

2007-04-25T12:37:00.000-05:00

UIC

2007-03-30T16:45:00.001-05:00

Ann Arbor

2007-03-30T15:57:00.001-05:00

Smells like chocolate

2007-03-30T13:47:00.000-05:00

Sultans market

2007-03-30T12:35:00.000-05:00

The salad bar here is killah!

On the road

2007-03-21T13:07:00.001-05:00

Lightweight apps are good when you're in the car

ARGNet: Ravenchase Chicago: Treasure Hunting in the Windy City

2007-03-17T16:27:00.000-05:00

Ravenchase is a company producing an urban scavenger hunt taking place in Chicago. Here's a review both in Timeout and on the ARGN website. They have another chase going on today (St. Patrick's Day). If you've participated, I'd love to hear any feedback about your experience.

Inflight

2006-11-27T15:09:00.000-06:00

On plane photoblogging is so cool! Tampa to Chicago on SWA.

Library

2006-10-25T16:24:00.000-05:00

Listening to ambient sounds of trains, elevators, and pipes

C U See Me?

2006-10-25T11:33:00.000-05:00

Filter Cafe

2006-10-25T11:30:00.000-05:00

Will be leaving Filter shortly. See this link for the result.

Frustrated with CTA delays

2006-10-25T10:05:00.000-05:00

Waiting for Blue line

Goodnight!

2006-10-25T02:21:00.000-05:00

No more updates until morning. Gotta rest for my project at Filter Cafe!

The festival begins

2006-10-25T00:19:00.000-05:00

Live from Elastic!

Elastic

2006-10-25T00:11:00.000-05:00

The band will be starting shortly

Night bicycling

2006-10-24T23:42:00.000-05:00

Just a few blocks from Elastic...should I ride there?

Chicago Calling

2006-10-24T20:53:00.000-05:00

The debut of the Chicago Calling 24 hour arts festival begins at midnight tonight in my neighborhood, Logan Square, at the Elastic Gallery.

Sensational bites

2006-09-23T11:46:00.000-05:00

Southport grocery had fab cupcakes.

Cupcake crawl

2006-09-23T10:32:00.000-05:00

We are at Dinkel's. Lots of people here eating cupcakes!

Cupcake crawl Saturday

2006-09-21T23:15:00.000-05:00

Can't wait for the cupcake crawl this weekend. Watch the SMS updates on the right for realtime updates

Gorgeous day for the beach

2006-08-31T12:01:00.000-05:00

The Craft Racket

2006-08-30T17:53:00.000-05:00

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.

Event Map

2006-08-28T00:29:00.000-05:00

Here is a neat map documenting my route for this event. Made possible by the cool mapping site CommunityWalk!

Bucktown Arts Festival

2006-08-27T14:50:00.000-05:00

Lots of great art; lots of dogs and strollers too. Well that does it for the inaugural Follow Me Chicago event. Look for another outing coming your way soon.

Artzilla Craftzuki

2006-08-27T12:20:00.000-05:00

Come and help support your local crafter!

Another SMS service

2006-08-27T02:36:00.000-05:00

Well, looky here. Another SMS group chat service launches. This one with venture backing. And too many MBAs, management consultants, and advisors on-board, imho.

Goodnight

2006-08-26T23:28:00.000-05:00

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.

Navy pier

2006-08-26T21:21:00.000-05:00

Safely ensconced at the pier for another round of drinks, then
fireworks!

Tea gschwender

2006-08-26T20:19:00.000-05:00

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.

Ra sushi

2006-08-26T18:47:00.000-05:00

Just sat down at ra sushi in the heart of rush st area

Apple store

2006-08-26T16:35:00.000-05:00

Decided to stop at the Apple store for a bit of web surfing before
heading to Sabon soaps

Glenwood Festival / Sabon soaps

2006-08-26T16:13:00.000-05:00

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.

Internet cafe

2006-08-26T16:01:00.000-05:00

Looking for cafe w terminals or nearby library

Heading south

2006-08-26T15:59:00.000-05:00

Not a lot of bus options @ sheridan and lunt on a sat

Approaching Morse stop on red line

2006-08-26T15:00:00.000-05:00

Glenwood ave arts fest up next

Heading north on red line

2006-08-26T14:30:00.000-05:00

On to Glenwood Ave arts fest

Spacca

2006-08-26T14:06:00.000-05:00

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.

WB on montrose bus

2006-08-26T11:53:00.000-05:00

May be a little late to Spacca. Hang tight!

On cta

2006-08-26T11:26:00.000-05:00

NB on Pulaski to Montrose

Lunch at Spacca Napoli

2006-08-26T03:04:00.000-05:00

The day begins with lunch at noon at foodie mecca Spacca Napoli. Address is 1769 W Sunnyside Ave
So, instead of Thai buffet as originally planned, it'll be thin crust pizza. We'll see how things go from there.

Influence the journey

2006-08-25T11:46:00.000-05:00

Any suggestions on where to go? Post a comment here and I'll take it into consideration for tomorrow.

Wed night

2006-08-23T20:01:00.000-05:00

Just a preview of what's coming on Saturday. This from tonight's final
Summerdance DJ series in Grant Park, going on right now.

More structure

2006-08-19T01:05:00.000-05:00

Here's some more details about the project...it will start approximately at noon on Saturday the 26th and end around midnight. I'll probably kick things off with lunch somewhere...later on I'll pick a local pub to visit (i.e. there definitely will be alcohol involved!). El rides will be included, as well as some touristy spots, but I'll also try to pick lesser-known venues along the way. Sorry to be so vague, but the spontaneity and impromptu elements are what makes this project interesting!

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.

SMS tools

2006-08-11T22:38:00.000-05:00

We will be using some cool new apps for real-time SMS communications during the Aug 26 event.

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.

Project Philosophy

2006-08-10T00:28:00.000-05:00

There are at least two main drivers behind this project. The first is to illustrate the use of technologies like cameraphones, text messaging (SMS), and the wireless web as a means of facilitating remote publishing/communications. While none of these individual technologies is particularly bleeding-edge, I have not seen them deployed in a real-time manner. This then introduces the notions of geo-spatial and temporal aethetics which I desire to explore using this new medium. Simply put, representing human social activity around where and when things are happening.

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.

Follow me

2006-08-08T01:01:00.000-05:00

Follow me Chicago