GeoURL ICBM Address Server
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.
I stepped upon this through Ascription is an anathema to any enthusiasm's entry ICBM
I now have my entry there: I used Yahoo maps to get the exact long/lat of my address in Paris, then added these 2 lines in the HEADER section of my Radio HomePage template:
<META name="ICBM" content="48.8312,2.3478">
<META name="DC.title" content="Patrick Chanezon's Weblog">
Then I used the ping form , and I was registered in 5 minutes.
Here is my neighborhood.
It seems like L'oeil de Mouche is the only one from Paris to have registered yet. Incidentally she was at the FrogLog meeting in december but I did not talk to her.
This is an excellent idea: the web is about connecting people, regardless of location, but I just started recently to discover its potential to also connect with people near me.
My old Netscape friend Tristan sent me a mail in december about a physical meeting of french webloggers in a restaurant in Paris. I registered on the Froglog wiki, went and met with all these passionate french webloggers with whom I could talk to my heart's content about the potential of weblogs and the different uses they made of it.
I met with [Manur] , [Karl], [Stephane] , and ChristopheDucamp who co-organized this meeting.
It's been 3 weeks already and I still have some catchup to do to read their blogs old posts !
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