Ecotone is a wiki for collaborative writing about “place”:

“The Ecotone wiki is intended as a portal for those who are interested in learning and writing about place. It came about as a meeting spot for a number of webloggers who write extensively about place in their own blogs and were wishing to work more collaboratively, as well as raise awareness to this genre of weblogs.”

Fascinating also to find the term ecotone means “A transitional zone between two communities containing the characteristic species of each.”

» Ecotone wiki: Writing about place
[via Boynton]

“Of course there is no Hadid to be found yet in Britain apart from the woman herself and her colleagues in a converted school in Clerkenwell. She won the competition for the Cardiff Bay opera house years ago, only to be stymied by the forces of English conservatism and Welsh parochialism, a deadly combination.”

» Gabion.com: “Zaha Hadid brings subtlety to Cincinnati. Not something it’s used to.”