Ask Bjørn Hansen: April 2005 Archives

I've added license conditions on the site. The link is at the bottom of each page. Practically this applies mostly to the RSS feeds.

It's a creative commons license, so I've added the CC XML markup to all the pages.

On popular request I've updated the rss feeds to include latitude and longitude data.

I added with two extra fields as in the following data. Suggestions for better ways to do it are welcome. (Accordingly this is subject to change at any moment! :-) )

  <item rdf:about="http://ericrichardson.com/">
  <title>eWorld: eric richardson meets the web</title>
  <link>http://ericrichardson.com/</link>
  <description>About 9.4 km away. Near Los Angeles.</description>
  <geourl:longitude>-118.25201</geourl:longitude>
  <geourl:latitude>34.0456</geourl:latitude>
  </item>

Please let me know if you do anything with this.

(Another change I did last week was adding Google Maps links to pages for sites in England and Ireland. Let me know if this is not working right for you of if you have more suggestions for maps)

I get asked about this a couple of times a day, "where are the RSS feeds?!"

I wanted to add some sorting options, an Atom feed and have it available in a sidebar (see the previous entry) before announcing it, so take this as an early preview announcement you get because everyone is asking. :-)

You can add ";format=rss10" to get the /near result in RSS 1.0 format or ";format=rss092" to get it in RSS 0.92 format. For example to get a feed of things near Jim use this URL: http://geourl.org/near/?p=http://trainedmonkey.com/;format=rss10

The old /rss10/ URLs from v1.0 are also working (they redirect to the new).

As mentioned I'm going to add an Atom feed and also make the old XML feed work again (with more data than the RSS feed).

For someone with a bit of CSS magic:

• I want the mininews box on the front page to stay to the right of the worldmap when possible (as now), but wrap below rather than above the worldmap when you shrink the browser window. How to?

• If you can help with that, then I also need help adding a simple sidebar to the /near pages. :-) Please email me.