Welcome to the Ecotone wiki!
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. We hope that this wiki complements our weblogs well: as Chris Corrigan [puts it], blogs increase span and wikis increase depth. For more background about the origins of this wiki, see HistoryOfTheEcotoneCommunity.
Why Ecotone? An ecotone is a term from the field of ecology. It is a place where landscapes meet -- like field with forest, or grassland with desert. The ecotone is an area of increased richness and diversity where the two communities commingle. Here too are creatures unique to the ecotone... the so-called '. Here in our online version of an ecotone, we hope to create an edge effect, bringing distinct and different places and communities together to enrich our world. We hope you enjoy your visit, and add your own bit of diversity to the site.
- For a list of past topics in our series of biweekly collective weblog posts about place, see BiWeeklyTopics.
- See PhotographingPlace/Topics for a list and PhotographingPlace/PotentialTopicsDiscussion for discussion links and other galleries.
- If you are a new visitor to our wiki, please sign our GuestBook!
- If you are not familiar with wikis, it takes just a few minutes to come up to speed. Basically, a wiki is a website where anybody can go edit and add material, and create their own pages in the site. We welcome your contributions, which you can add by clicking on ' at the bottom of each screen. For more information about the wiki format, see New To Wikis. For instructions on the formatting markup to use in the edit screen, see TextFormattingRules.
Some entry points for our wiki include:
- Our current general discussion at TheRunningDiscussion, and discussion archives linked from RunningDiscussionArchives
- Information on our biweekly collective weblog posts, including BiWeeklyTopics and PotentialTopicsForCollectiveBlogging
- Our biweekly collective photo exhibitions PhotographingPlace
- A list of BloggersOfPlace, as well our attempts at some PlaceBlogCategories
- Other resources about place, including BooksOnPlace, QuotesOnPlace, and WebResourcesOnPlace
- Galleries and discussions of PhotographingPlace
- Discussion on elements of the landscape, including thoughts on LandscapeStudyMethods
- Materials on related web developments, such as RegionalWeblogs and PlaceWikis
- Discussion of the development and direction of this wiki, such as PortalIdeas, ChoosingASiteName, and HistoryOfTheEcotoneCommunity
- An [index] of all pages in the wiki
Banner image -- North levee of Putah Creek, Solano County, California.