Adventures of Urban Life

Desiree Caro
While seaching for blogs for this activity i came across this interesting website called urbantravelblog.com. it had a bunch of european cities listed and you could click on any one of them and then articles written by bloggers in this place would come up. New York was not listed as one of the cities so i chose to read a few from the bloggers in london. most of the articles were relating to attractions that people could go do upon visiting these places, kind of like what we do in class. For instance i read an article about London's "Ghost Walk Tour" that takes you all over the city telling you were people of the past have died and where their supposed ghosts are lurking.
Another interesting blog i found seemed to be created by a man living in portland oregon http://urbanadventureleague.blogspot.com/. He also was giving an account of some of the activites taking place in his city. I wasnt really aware that portland was an urban area, but there seems to be some interesting things going on over there. the author promotes lots of bike riding events and comments on the weather they have had over there.
This next website was my favorite one http://urbanadventure.wordpress.com/. Its the same website we used to put our sound recordings online so it had a lot of the same technology. it used sound clips and google mapping to bring urban stories to life. The most interesting thing that i saw on the page was "Urban Sound Week" where people would record sounds of the city and put them up on twitter. this other site was also related to it http://urbanearth.ning.com/# this site was interesting too because it had a lot of unconventional urban areas listed.
I think these blogs compare to my blog in that they tell stories about a certain area that arent necessarily visible to the publice at first glance. all the material used in tese blogs ( including this one) takes observatuion and inquiry and i feel that is soething that we have in common.