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April 26, 2003

The World as Blog

Remember the GeoURL discussion a while back? Somebody got really creative and created a world map indicating newly-updated blogs through the code. Let the owner explain it:

Real time & updating display of weblog postings, around the world

How? Weblogs.com + geocoding + RSS

Is it really real-time? Nearly:). Weblogs.com updates about once per minute. the geo-blog poller checks about once per minute. and flash checks in with the server about once per minute. so at worse, it's 3 minutes in the past, at best 1 minute.

Why so few blogs? Only ~10% of weblogs are geocoded

How do I? Add GeoTags and RSS tag to your Blog, then Ping Weblogs.com

Kinda nifty, I calls it. It's a world map (Mercator projection, I think) with flashing lights representing newly updated blogs geographically. (If you've already got the GeoURL code, obviously you don't need to add it, and if you're using MT, you probably don't need to muck with the RSS tag; I certainly didn't do that. Somethin' for nuthin'! You may already be there!).

Posted by Linkmeister at April 26, 2003 10:25 AM

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Posted by Albert on April 27, 2003 2:09 PM:


Okay, okay, I bit and pinged. :)

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