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Foolishly Tossing My Hat into the Ring on Echo ... Here's What I Want.

Foolishly Tossing My Hat into the Ring on Echo ... Here's What I Want

Ok.  I've followed this discussion from afar.  And since I couldn't even find where the Wiki* was to add this idea, here's what I'd like: Post Level Geo Urls.

As Richard Soderberg has done his best work to convince me of the importance of this, I have to start by giving credit to him.  Anyway ... What I want is a zip code / latitude / longitude / gps coords that can be applied to a single post.  Why?  Because blogs are a great way to capture off the cuff knowledge, feedback, etc.  Long time readers may recall my troubles with the furnace in my current residence at 124 Langley Road in Newton MA.  What I'd ***love*** is the ability to (in a standards compliant way) tag my blog post with this data.  Then some future poor sod who rented this place could take advantage of my troubles and ask intelligent questions like "Fixed the furnace yet you pathetic excuse for a landlord"?.  As blogs become less and less about purely digital stuff and more about the real world, this is increasingly useful.

Or how about this -- "find me anything about what's happening within a 25 mile radius of Reading, PA ?".  If coordinate approaches became standardized, I could do this in a hot second.  Well maybe a day or three.

And if you think the fact that I woke up w/o hot water today and on restarting my furnace, I then found thick smoke filling my basement AGAIN has anything to do with this then you would be 1000% correct.  Necessity is indeed the mother of invention but I suspect that Rage is invention's father.

*Note: I didn't try very far.  I did find an RSS profile wiki but is that the same as Echo ?

[The FuzzyBlog!]

Neat idea.  A collated feed of increasingly local information could be really useful and fun.

I think the RSS profiles idea has been subsumed into the Echo initiative.