Once a blog gets assigned to a particular geographical location -- "vancover", for example -- it can't be moved afterwards. This needs fixing, but there's only so many hours in a day and I'm trying to come up with a better registration system right now.
-------- AUTHOR: David P. Janes DATE: 12:57 PM ----- BODY:Not much happening today. All of CBC's regional sites are now being tracked, as well as the National Post's news page.
-------- AUTHOR: David P. Janes DATE: 12:14 PM ----- BODY:BlogTrack now has an integrated blog directory, for selecting blogs for your Custom Blogroll.
-------- AUTHOR: David P. Janes DATE: 7:49 AM ----- BODY:'Blog Metadata
There are several projects to add metadata to Web logs to provide better access to them. However, everybody seems to be working in isolation. I began by adding Dublin Core, A-Core and PICS. That was OK. DC and PICS were standards, and A-Core was based on DC. Next came Blogchalk Simple and easy to apply. There was a tool to search 'blogs that had been chalked, but that seems to be no longer working.
This was followed by the Weblog MetaData Initiative (WMDI). This was standards based, an extension of Dublin Core. A tool to read and compile WMDI is available. It will read qualified DC, no need for the WMDI additions. Nice.
The latest is Janes' Blogosphere. It uses non-standard markup but has a suite of tools to create, read and interpret the metadata and 'blog entries.
All this work going in different directions. What is needed is a metadata standard for 'blogs, like WMDI that supports a suite of tools like Jane's to add the medadata to the template and interpret it. Talk to each other people and work together. A widely adopted standard metadata for Web logs could be used in RSS, OPML, OAI-MHP and other Web services. It could improve access in so many ways.
"Catalogablog", David Bigwood
A few quick comments on this:
The right frame of BlogTrack has now been cleaned up a little, and the geographical list of blogs is now "integrated". Next step: integrating selecting blogs by name, and maybe searching a little later.
-------- AUTHOR: David P. Janes DATE: 2:07 AM ----- BODY:I've just uploaded the first half of a substantial upgrade to the website. Navigation should be significantly easier now, as pages are laid out more hierarchically and the top of the page contains a "you are here" display. BlogTrack now include its own help page and it also makes sure the URL displayed in the browser is "sharable". The second half of the upgrade goes up tomorrow morning.
-------- AUTHOR: David P. Janes DATE: 6:04 AM ----- BODY:This blog is now compatible with the overall look and feel. The links above may not exactly work today -- they're set up for the next version of the website, which I'll be loading tomorrow morning.
-------- AUTHOR: David P. Janes DATE: 2:22 AM ----- BODY:There's a lot more blogs being scraped now, after a marathon of code improvement and regex writing over the weekend. I've decided that the next small step will be an improvement of the UI.
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