The alpha-demo-AustinBlog now has sample posts from Adam Rice, Jon Lebkowsky, and Prentiss Riddle in addition to me.
One small bug – the posts show up in the order the trackback pings were sent, rather than the post dates. This shouldn’t be too much of a problem if we are sending pings when the posts are written.
Next steps:
* aggregate the content into weblog software, for improved formatting, comments, etc.
* add GeoUrls to posts 🙂
Stay tuned for updates.
Thank you, thank you.
I’d been working with the MT RSS plug-in, which requires three MT add-ins and isn’t quite working yet.
Will try this approach — looks transparently clear!
– Adina
Again from that great guy Phil, this RSS to blog script might come in handy:
http://blogs.salon.com/0000002/2003/1/15/#200301151
Do you really want to add GeoURLs to posts? Won’t the GeoURL reports for Austin soon consist of long lists of individual Austin metablog posts 0 miles from their creators?
Seems like a granularity mismatch to me — GeoURLs will scale all right for a while at one GeoURL per blog, but not at one GeoURL per post. (Or, as we dubbed it at the Meetup last night, “one GeoURL per light bulb”.)
hmmm… I think there are topics where GeoURLS on posts would be useful — posts about the same restaurant or hiking trail.
And other topics where it wouldn’t be useful, like opinions about political topics.
hmmm… I think there are topics where GeoURLS on posts would be useful — posts about the same restaurant or hiking trail.
And other topics where it wouldn’t be useful, like opinions about political topics.
Somebody, in the last couple of days or so, uploaded a whole load of location specific weather station pages… there’s a good application.
Divergent usage: I can check the weather nearest to me and nearest to YOU, and use that information to decide who’s going to host the picnic.
I’m noticing their server is creeking under the weight as more and more URLs register.