Blogging Roller: Roller-based geo-aggregator under development

Roller-based geo-aggregator under development

Migs Paraz has got some interesting ideas about building a geo-aware blog community aggegator, based in part on the Recovery 2.0 call to convene post and thread at Jeff Jarvis's site. And what's more, he's started a proof-of-concept site, based on Roller's built-in <a href= "http://www.rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=AdministrationGuide_1.x#ref-AdministrationGuide_1.x-4"> planet aggregator, Google Maps API and the GeoInfo RSS module. It didn't work in all my browsers, so here's a screen-shot:

Dave Johnson in Roller • 🕒 06:37AM Nov 11, 2005

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[Trackback] I was looking for previous work on geoaggregation and found Russell Nelson’s post on WaveBlog. This was from Feb 2004 and he’s moved on to Yahoo!, so I was curious. What happened? It’s now called “Streethive” and it loo...

Posted by Migs Paraz - Random Takes on November 11, 2005 at 06:17 PM EST #

Thanks for the mention! I found out it's an old idea after all (Russell Nelson). Re: browser support - my project partner should help get that tested. Right now (as you can see with my mailing list posts), I'm learning Roller internals, looking at new stuff we could add in 2.1 SVN, and trying to get Roller to run in Geronimo.

Posted by Migs on November 11, 2005 at 06:19 PM EST #