Platial blogs places

Speaking of sausage-making, I've been privy to the goings-on behind Platial's big push to release a little something they call Place Blogging. Place blogging struck me as akin to those bed-and-breakfast or museum guest-books you dutifully sign (and later gleefully page through for your own name). As Stewart Brand wrote so eloquently about in How Buildings Learn, place is as much about time and occupancy as about space.

When one thinks about places that are as much about the passing of time and passing through of people, just about any American who has chanced to live on or visit the east coast will cite Yankee Stadium (or Fenway, no doubt with little overlap). How fitting, then, that Di-Ann and crew have chosen soon-to-be-torn-down Yankee Stadium as exemplar of place blogging.

(And, yes, there's a little something on Fenway too.)