The GeoURL project is building a database of websites and their geographical coordinates. There is an interactive map and a “neighbors” feature that will show you web sites close (physically) to you. GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor’s blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you. What the heck, it’s worth experimenting with. I looked up my latitude and longitude and added the appropriate tags to my primary web page. Now I’m in the database: Cantoni.org on GeoURL. To add…
Last week I added a green “sub” icon in addition to the usual orange “xml” representation for this site’s RSS feed. The green sub links to the Syndication Subscription Service which reads the RSS file and displays a set of links to add this channel to various news aggregators. Try it now with this site’s RSS feed: Cantoni.org RSS feed The service can also expand a list of subscribed channels from OPML or OCS format. It wasn’t quite working for my AmphetaDesk subscriptions, but Morten Frederiksen was nice enough to add the support. (AmphetaDesk uses a slight variant of OPML,…
Phil Gyford wrote a great summary of weblog terms that many weblog authors probably take for granted but may be confusing for new readers.
I just rediscovered a handy feature of Yahoo: its online address book. I use Yahoo for a free email account, but haven’t used many of their other online PIM features (calendar, address book, note pad, etc.). Instead, I sync my Palm handheld to Palm Desktop (Address, To Do, Memo, etc.) and Outlook (Calendar). Syncing with Yahoo is pretty straighforward, but it only cleanly handles device–Yahoo sync. It can’t really handle a “3-way” sync that would include Palm Desktop or Outlook. Rather than doing a full sync, Yahoo provides a handy “import” feature. I use it periodically to keep a copy…
Having recently moved from CityDesk to Movable Type, I captured some notes on the technique I used to move my weblog entries over.