For this Friday’s links, I decided to include blogs/sites that depend on a community of contributers. 

Some people had a thought: “Why can’t we keep a gorgeous moment that will never end?” They considered the sunrise, thought of it as a “gorgeous moment” worth extending, and started the project Never Ending Sun, where it invites folks from different time zones to help create an eternal sunrise .  You can learn more about them here on their website, on their YouTube group, and of course, their blog.  The people who wrote me about it call themselves the Apollo Team.

Ever wonder how your city came to be and continues to come to be?  You might want to check out an urban planning blog.  Maintained by a community of people who are interested in city planning and development, the blog Cyburbia: The Planning Community includes forums, galleries, and a planning wiki page. 

Focusing mostly on real estate, Curbed is a site that claims it is the “center of the virtual conversation about real estate in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond. Sales and rental prices, celebrity deals, new developments, amusing broker stories, hot restaurants, and the latest neighborhood gossip. . .” but the site warns that it is full of rumors and gossip. 

Lastly, are you interested in writing fiction but don’t know where to start?  Or think that the process should be collaborative but can’t find other writers who are game?  Or you just need to get out of a block?  Read/WriteWeb has a post on a few collaborative writing programs on the web, free and easy to use.

Enjoy your Friday!

Also of interest by the University of Nebraska Press:

Along the Edge of Daylight: Photographic Travels from Nebraska and the Great Plains by Georg Joutras

Upstream Metropolis: An Urban Biography of Omaha and Council Bluffs by Lawrence H. Larsen, Barbara J. Cottrell, Harl A. Dalstrom, and Kay Calame Dalstrom

Writing Brave and Free: Encouraging Words for People Who Want to Start Writing
by Ted Kooser and Steve Cox