Need to freshen up?
Read this month's installement of Notes to learn how to:
- create customized google maps
- promote your blog, and
- join the Technorati tagging revolution
- Probably the coolest "how-to" on the WWW right now is this guide to hacking Google Maps for your own devious purposes. This is for advanced Internet users with a variety of web skills. Here's a couple of examples where people in Boston and Chicago have used the maps to chart public transport routes and this is an example of how maps can be integrated with real estate.
- Promote your blog. Get it out there and let everyone enjoy your joys and misery. Be part of the collective. This post from the amazing Robin Good is a great place to start your promotional campaign. Learn about the benefits of RSS syndication. This is for anyone with a blog.
- One of the different things about open source development is the way technologies develop. Technorati is part of a growing movement of sites tracking blogs and implementing a tag structure that announces the start of a progress to a semantic web for next-generation Internet. Pump up your blog by embedding technorati tags using this tutorial. Also for anyone with a blog and listed with Technorati you might be interested in adding the beta Technorati searchlet to your site. You can see it in action in the right column of this website.
Those young enough to remember the early 1990s will look back fondly at the "how-to" environment that stimulated the early growth of the World Wide Web (WWW). For programmers the tools necessary to learn about HTML, Java, SMIL were provided on websites that were probably the Google PageRank 9 sites of their day.
Well the WWW has grown up a lot since that time. There are now over 10 million blogs and tracking on Technorati and creating and supporting the tools to 'write' content is the explosive growth sector of the Internet. The Open Source movement is further driving a shift to creativity and collaboration in design and content. The dominant media is shifting with it.
