{"id":14067,"date":"2010-09-20T08:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T12:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=14067"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:52:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:52:36","slug":"stroll-city-begins-september-21-join-in-the-toronto-twitter-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/09\/20\/stroll-city-begins-september-21-join-in-the-toronto-twitter-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"Stroll City Begins Tomorrow &#8212; join in the Toronto Twitter observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"subway\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2563\/3981262115_e1ac78b1a2_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"flaneur\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-toronto-flaneur.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"63\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"stroll\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chbooks.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/title_single_view\/Strollfrontforweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"211\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Long before I got a smart phone I would text out short observations of what I was seeing as I passed through Toronto to a group of friends. Sometimes these were extraordinary things, sometimes just everyday. The form of the text &#8212; short bursts of info &#8212; was a nice and concise way of creating snapshots of the city. When the iPhone and Twitter came along, I stopped sending texts (possibly to the relief of some of those friends) and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/shawnmicallef\" target=\"_blank\">started tweeting through the city<\/a>. I treat Twitter, at times, as a kind of public notebook and a place to record observations and feelings about Toronto, and then share them (which often leads to other folks tweeting their own feelings and knowledge about a place). It&#8217;s been a lot of fun, and invaluable, as many of these tweets and responses have ended up in pieces of long-form writing and, eventually, my book Stroll (the inspiration for this project). I hope you&#8217;ll join in starting next week as some of my Toronto tweets will appear in a new Twitter feed and on screens in all the subway stations by tweeting back your own observations, many of which will also appear on the screens.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>From September 21 to October 5, Shawn Micallef, the author of <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chbooks.com\/catalogue\/stroll\">Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto<\/a> (as well as <\/em><em>EYE WEEKLY columnist and <\/em><em>Spacing editor) and fl\u00e2neur extraordinaire, will tweet his Toronto discoveries through the Twitter handle\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/StrollCity\/\">@strollcity<\/a> in addition to his own feed. Torontonians are encouraged to respond to his tweets with comments and their own discoveries <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/StrollCity\/\">@strollcity<\/a> over the two weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TTC riders in the city can tweet their replies to Micallef&#8217;s texts, only to see them magically appear shortly thereafter in an ever-changing spot that will run every 10 minutes on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onestopmedia.com\/\">Onestop Media<\/a> TTC network of screens, visible to over 1 million subway commuters daily. We&#8217;re hoping to get as many people involved as possible in this city-wide, interactive media-art project so we can get tweeted findings from all over the city.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please follow Stroll City at  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/StrollCity\/\">twitter.com\/StrollCity<\/a>, and tweet your findings starting September 21!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sweetone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sweet One<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before I got a smart phone I would text out short observations of what I was seeing as I passed through Toronto to a group of friends. Sometimes these were extraordinary things, sometimes just everyday. 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