Geotagging (or geocoding if you prefer) is the act of associating your content (blog posts, photos, feeds, etc.) with a geographic location (e.g. via latitude and longitude co-ordinates). Thus tagged authors can "mash" their content together with the likes of Google Maps, or the Flickr Map if photography is your thing. However, co-ordinates are typically encoded within metadata (or microformat) tags making them visible to machines but hidden from people. We have de facto web standard icons to help identify feeds, OPML, and sharing—so why not for geotagged content?
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Having settled on SimplePie as a solution for embedding iStockPhoto feeds, I decided to see if I could use it to parse the latest posts from multiple sites in my OPML file (blogroll if you prefer). Would it really be as simple to cook as it sounded? There were qualifiers, however. I wanted to show only a selection of headlines at any one time. I wanted to vary the order in which the sites were listed. And I wanted to automatically fetch and display the favicon for each site. Armed only with copy-and-paste level PHP know-how, I was going to need help in the kitchen—that much was clear at the outset.
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Convert RSS feeds in Safari to OPML: An XML stylesheet that will scan Safari's Bookmarks and find only the RSS feed entries. The output can then be redirected to an OPML file for import to readers like NetNewsWire Lite.
This option for sharing a reading list ("blogroll") may be of interest if you use an RSS reader like NetNewsWire than can export your subscriptions in OPML format.
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How many times do you visit Google to re-run a particular search? Would like like to know what Google ranking your site/ name etc. has, and when it changes? How often do you remember reading about something on one of the blogs you read, and subsequently have difficulty finding it via a general net search? Do you use a search engine like FreeFind on your own blog, and wish for a similar tool that will search through your blogroll? Then you'll want to check out these services...
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