by Chelsea H. B. DeLorme / One of the most popular facebook posts Creative Portland and 2 Degrees Portland have shared (ever) was a recent link to The Atlantic announcing the happiest states in the union, based on tweets (The Geography of Happiness According to a Million Tweets). Hawaii was first, and Maine was the runner-up for relative, collective happiness.  

by John Spritz / "Some of the most creative people in town. "  That's how co-host Rich Brooks, president of flyte new media, described the crowd last night at the February Tweetup, held at Spread on Commercial Street in the Old Port.  

by John Spritz /   Sitting there, way up high in the balcony of Merrill Auditorium, you had to wonder:  have this many people ever assembled, in this space, to hear a poet?  Longfellow was gone long before Merrill was built -- and who else, in Maine, could have that kind of draw, could bring close to two thousand people out on a full-moon night to listen to poems? Richard Blanco, that's who.  He who read his poem, "One Today," at President Obama's recent inauguration.