Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.
Every place has a story - or a thousand stories. Findery brings places to life, be they where you stand or where you hope to go.
It's always good to see the world; always good to see new places. When I'm sitting at home, one of the great things is when my daughter and I watch TV, and when she sees or hears about a place for the first time, I tell her, 'Daddy's been there!'
It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I'm having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.
Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.
No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.
