WordPress and Google Earth Saturday 2006-01-21
I had a dream the other day, that it would be possible to somehow integrate WordPress with Google Earth to make the strength of the blogging community even better. Then yesterday I stumbled over an article by Podz at his “What makes you happy” blog. He suggests just that and in an afterthought he comes to the conclusion that this si something not only for WP blogger, but for other bloggers too. Why include bloggers on the basis of their platform?
At closer examination, the idea is not as unique as I thought at first. There are already many communities on the globe, the first of them being the Keyhole developers and fan club. I remember my love affair with Google Earth last summer, that made me sleep far to few hours. There were communities of photographers and hunters of beautiful sights and aeroplanes on the globe.
As Ian pointed out in a comment to mine on Podz site, Chris J. Davis is planning to put the sites on the 9rules network on the globe as well.
I think that using Google Earth to enhance the social aspect of blogging would be great. Building social networks where people makes friends over all kind of boundaries requires lots of tools. The pings and trackbacks that relates thoughts and ideas among writers, the blogrolls, the Gravatars and the XFN relational markup are such tools.
One very good article I read on the matter of the social web is Personality and Utopia also by Chris J. Davis.
[ Edit ] If you have installed Google Earth, you can find my place in space here.
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Monday 2006-01-23
Hey Petit,
I already have the adding of sites automated, I am now waiting for the 9rules community to get into gear and sign up.